First draft, floor plan single-family house 160 sqm

What is the purpose of the bay window in the south? That way you simply have two more edges in the room, but from my perspective the bay window doesn't really offer any benefit. A chimney flue behind a wall will be negotiated and approved that way? I'm not very familiar with that. In our old house the problem was that we would have needed "fire protection walls" to get the hot stove pipe through the wall.

I think having a toilet in the garage is great. This way, the kids don’t always have to go into the house and take off their shoes when they need to go, and the parents don’t have to either when they’re working outside. I have wished for a garden toilet more than once. What kind of heating is planned? I also find it very unfortunate that the most beautiful rooms upstairs have to serve as the heating room. We have a bathroom in each of our two dormers. If you still want to keep it this way, I would let the heating room extend across the entire width of the gable and maybe put the washing machine and dryer in there as well. This way, you save yourself the hassle of carrying laundry up and down. I would place the chimney flue more in the hallway than in the kitchen. Upstairs it would then be in the corridor, and that would probably work. I also wouldn't like the shower opposite the door in the bathroom. I find it impractical if someone is coming out of the shower while another person wants to go in or out.

I think the idea with the room in the gable is great :) but the hallway then has no natural light at all...does anyone have experience with that?

Hello,

You could possibly bring some light into the hallway with a few skylights in the doors - they are also available in frosted glass to maintain privacy...

Regards,

Dirk

but the hallway then has no daylight at all...does anyone have experience with that?

Our hallway is 1.5 sqm and has no daylight. We can live very well with it. Most of the time the doors on the first floor are open anyway, providing enough light in the hallway.

We also have an internal staircase and we have made a skylight above our two bathrooms (door opening floor-to-ceiling and the upper part as a fixed glass panel). Additionally, daylight still enters through the front door upward and we also have a staircase to the attic, where above the attic stairs we have a roof window that also illuminates and ventilates the corridor on the upper floor.

Another option would have been daylight spotlights. Then you could have also put a light bulb in them and had both :-)