First draft floor plan single-family house (approx. 200 sqm) - Please provide feedback

Have you ever considered not putting the second living room, but the main living room and kitchen in the "basement"? Then sleeping on the "ground floor" and guests under the roof?

You absolutely have to take a closer look at the bathroom and furnish it. I can imagine that due to the sloping roof and the position of the window and door, it might not be possible to fit a shower, bathtub, toilet, and sink there in a practical and nice way.

What do you still need an attic for? And read our suggestions carefully, the last one from Put the living floor in the basement, do without the cellar and distribute the rest on the ground floor and attic. Regards, Yvonne

Posting the original drawings makes little sense because the layout did not correspond to our wishes at all – it was simply a first draft from the planners who previously knew nothing about our already quite concrete ideas.

From the planners' side) I consider it procedurally unwise to start planning without knowledge of your ideas. The draft seems to me like a ground-level house with a gable roof in the same ridge direction but with only slightly more than a 30° roof pitch (but not without a knee wall), reworked from that starting point.

From your side) I wouldn't even take such a plan as a basis, but rather wait for one that takes your ideas into account. It looks to me as if the agreement between the first plan and your ideas already exhausts itself in the matching footprint. That does not seem to me to be a sufficient foundation for successful planning.

You are right about almost everything – the first proposal was a high knee wall and a 45-degree roof pitch (there is actually no less here). However, this is not possible due to the development plan, and it would probably have been a full story, which is also not allowed. We will definitely ask the planners again whether they would do something different based on our ideas and the development plan.

The question we are currently asking ourselves is: Is there something you would fundamentally do differently? We would like to have all the bedrooms on the upper floor and we don’t really want to give up the living room on the ground floor.

Is there anything (besides the roof pitch and the missing knee wall) that in your opinion is not good at all in the current proposal or something you would change about the room layout?

I am very grateful for further suggestions and opinions.

Why exactly do you want the bedrooms on the upper floor and the living room on the ground floor? What speaks against defining the ground floor so that you can actually go from the [ERD-Geschoss] into the garden/on the terrace? The bedrooms would still be on the "upper floor," namely one level above. I just think that you either won't use the living room in the basement - or if you do, you will often (if not always) miss the proximity to the kitchen.

If you want a classic layout, in my opinion, you would need a classic, that is, flat plot. With the steep slope that you ultimately have, you should definitely reconsider the arrangement of the rooms and whether it’s more important to carry the weekly big shopping from the "ground floor level" to the basement (I honestly can’t think of more reasons for the kitchen on the ground floor than the short way to the garage), or whether you would rather want the short distance every summer day between sofa and terrace or kitchen and terrace.

In that context, I also want to refer again to my objection regarding the bathroom planning. The bathroom would certainly be much easier to furnish with the same floor area but without the sloping roof.

For me, a separation of living/eating/cooking from the terrace is unimaginable. For us, the property is accessed from below and we have the entrance classically on the living level. Friends of ours have the situation like you.

They have the entrance area and the bedrooms on the ground floor and the living rooms in the basement with direct [Terrassen] and [Gartenzugang].

The children play outside and can be supervised better this way, the walking distances are shorter. It already starts when you forget the salt while having breakfast on the terrace.
The bedrooms under the roof heat up much more than on the ground floor.