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

If you plan the garage sensibly, the space underneath can partly be used as a storage room / garden tools / winter storage for garden furniture etc., and on the other hand as a covered & sheltered seating area.

The garage - which was not yet visible in the first draft - looks like it rises at least one meter eighty from the ground at its rear side, if I’m not mistaken. That screams for a basement, and the basement in turn calls for use.

What I said yesterday about the path to serving in the living area naturally multiplies under the premise of eating in the garden.

I would (and as far as I perceive the opinions here, by far not alone) completely reengineer the room program: this hillside location simply does not fit the thinking of "ground" floor and "basement" floor. 66 sqm living room with the kitchen on the same level as the 31 sqm winter living room in the entrance floor is gross nonsense, which you will always lament in the summer living room (which, with 35 sqm, or 42 if you disregard the bathroom down there, is large enough for year-round use). Put children's rooms and a children’s bathroom "upstairs."

The key to a happy room layout here is: "brainwashing." Get rid of the story designations that don’t fit here, and then redistribute the room program: to garden floor, entrance floor, and attic floor. Then you will also find reasonable arrangements for living - eating - cooking - managing. Stack the bathrooms, perhaps with a laundry chute to the utility room.

Definitely the standard thinking that a UG is a basement and the entrance absolutely has to be on the same level as the kitchen and living area.

I think the planner's standard thinking was even simpler here: that with a steep slope you get a junk room for all the rooms not accommodated upstairs and much more as a bonus. Part of it was so useless to the clients that they rearranged it. And now they are stuck in this dead end.

Thanks to everyone for the opinions. There are a few very important points, some of which we already had on the change list ourselves:

- we have always planned a large sliding door between the kitchen and living room. It is just no longer included in any plan - but it will definitely be realized that way

- the access to the kitchen and pantry will be different. You will probably enter the pantry, which is actually more of a utility room, directly from the hallway and then go from there into the kitchen. The "nice" access to the kitchen is through the living room after all

- the kitchen will be just under half a meter wider so that there will be a kitchen table by the south window

- regarding the guest bedroom downstairs and the windows blocked by the garage, you are of course right, we will redesign that

- we will soften the projecting corners in the main hallway

There are also some points where our habits probably differ from those of many others (also in our family). We currently have a very nice west-facing terrace and hardly use it. Conversely, we lived for a long time on the first floor and had to go out of the house and across the yard to get to the garden. We used the garden very much there. --> a direct access to the terrace and garden from the living room is not important to us. On the contrary, we really like the idea of having a kind of rustic second living room, possibly with a fireplace, from which we then step onto the terrace and garden. And it is clear that many think and live differently, which we can well understand. For us, this way is better.

Regarding the narrow hallway upstairs: I grew up in a family of five with exactly the same living situation upstairs. I cannot remember a situation where we wished for more space in the hallway upstairs

- please do not take the literal meaning too strictly. Pantry in this design means pantry +|- utility room; wardrobe means wardrobe + shoe + clothes closet, etc.

Two points we are really not yet fully convinced about are the type and positioning of the stairs and the question of dormer yes/no

Best regards

- a large sliding door between the kitchen and the living room was always planned by us. It is just no longer included in any plan - but it will definitely be realized that way

Aha. Of course, we couldn’t have known that. By the time of the approval planning, however, the builder’s intent and the drawings should be congruent.

- the kitchen will be almost half a meter wider so that there will be a kitchen table at the south window.

Um, slowly it really is becoming a different house than what could be seen so far (?)

2 points we are really not fully convinced about yet are the type and positioning of the stairs and the question of dormer yes/no

Aside from the fact that the gable dormer (aka: dormer) seems well solved to me – and with this roof pitch decisively contributes to leaving room despite the floor area – the topic of stairs should not be mentioned in the same breath: the type and positioning of the stairs cannot be addressed in isolation, because the entire floor plan depends on it (especially with a pitched roof, as you can see from the ladder-style stairs to the basement).

So, even if you have a very specific taste for room allocation, my advice remains clear: don’t repair a planner’s proposal, but develop “your” house. Feel free to proceed unconventionally, e.g., define the desired staircase first.

What has become visible so far here looks like a used purchase rebuilt with hands tied. The fact that you find the floor allocation suitable does not change that.

that was also one of the first things I thought about: which staircase shape do I actually want and which one is out of the question for me? because a floor plan ultimately depends on that

Hello everyone,
here is our updated plan with a few changes. What is not yet final are the windows. We will install more and larger windows overall, as well as double sash windows.

Best regards