First floor plan single-family house 190m2

Really that bad?

It’s not just the kitchen, also for example the bathroom as a passage room: imagine the bathroom or toilet is in use, but someone needs something from the laundry… or vice versa: someone needs to use the toilet, holding a meeting, and then suddenly the door opens because someone is active in the utility room.
Closets behind doors: people don’t like to walk into those. You don’t have to do it at every door, but it looks nicer if e.g. the children’s wardrobe is hidden behind the door. The room immediately feels bigger.
Entrance: how are the furniture supposed to be scattered there.
With the program you used, you have to carefully watch the measurements: cabinets are usually 60 cm deep (there are also deeper ones).

I’ll say it like this…
Those who sent you an offer for this “draft” :oops: I would sort out immediately.

Nicely said. Of course, that’s a phrase that contains some truth o_O
For the construction company, at first glance for the offer it’s only about feasibility, the number of oversized windows, roof shape and walls: that’s what the offer is for. So you don’t necessarily have to sort out x or y right now. But I would rather ask if they will just copy every crap (sorry) without checking or improving.
The staircase is only understandable at the third glance because it is drawn as if the start is in front of the technical room.

New approach ideas:
I would handle the sqm a bit more efficiently: for example, I am not of the opinion that home office will increase, that will surely be reduced again, but then maybe 8 sqm each would be enough.
58 sqm for kitchen, dining and living is also a huge amount that isn’t even felt here.
Passage rooms might have limited reasons to exist, but not in rooms in use that then hinder each other.
With 4 people, a hallway where you can normally pass each other without disturbing works well.
In the approach, I would first plan without unnecessary corners and only include room recesses where you plan built-in furniture.
If the house is only allowed to be 6 meters high, then I would open the roof in the upper floor and provide lighting from there.

I'm just making bullet points in a list, please reflect accordingly yourself, some things certainly involve a considerable amount of taste ;):

Ground floor
- 10m² entrance but only space for a 1m wardrobe
- Entrance area extremely dark, no glass (house) door, the marked window only leaves a 20cm wide strip of glass at the end
- Pantry too narrow to really put anything in, with 40cm deep shelves there remains a 68cm passage, or at the bottom of the plan in the middle 28cm, but then the protrusion in the kitchen
- Space under the stairs in addition to pantry - possibly combinable for more kitchen counter and a 60cm tall cabinet with supplies?
- "Passage" to the technical room again 1m² traffic area
- Double door not aligned with stairs/entrance door
- Bathroom on ground floor not usable as is (cabinet - shower)
- Dining room would only allow a cabinet on the kitchen wall, with the remaining 3.3m it gets quite tight around the table
- Couch with windows behind it

Upper floor
- Huge bathroom area-wise but not generous in feel, very narrow and long
- Shower passage only 70cm, at the same time over 4m "free walking area" under the window
- Door of the upper plan children's room can be moved further into the wall center, then a wardrobe fits behind the door, alternatively enlarge the bathroom entrance niche
- Laundry room only meant for washing or a spare utility room for everything including suitcase storage and old toys? Only for washing would be too expensive for the benefit to me
- Passage to the dressing room too narrow with the corner and the marked wardrobe
- Dressing room per se might also be (too) narrow, 60-65cm per wardrobe plus 1m aisle is comfortable
- Bedroom not exactly spacious with less than 3m depth - 2m bed, a few centimeters for headboard, some overhang at foot end, then a little cabinet or TV on the wall leaves 50-60cm passage

If you want to make the kitchen the center, it needs the quality of a room where people like to spend a long time and where more of life takes place than just preparing meals and occasionally having breakfast at a counter. The question of what defines family life is a determining factor for the architecture. Just think about that further and for now free yourself from the house plan. These are simple questions like: Where do I do crafts with the children (when they are around), where do they do their homework as elementary school students, in secondary school, who outside the family moves through the house, where can they go, where preferably not, also consider children’s and youth visitors, what does sociability today and tomorrow mean to us, which form do we particularly like (from this arise requirements for the communal areas living, dining, cooking, garden...). This is where the planning starts, then you look at how to translate what is really important for life in the house into architecture under the given conditions. Taking a floor plan and choosing a form preferred for visual reasons and distributing the rooms within it is not even the second best approach. Therefore, I will not write about the specific disadvantages of the planning (others already do that with very good judgment), as the planning approach itself is not coherent – especially for a future family.

Completely different idea: Try planning the main entrance at the top right (to the north towards the garage), as this immediately opens up many more possibilities for the floor plan design and I can really imagine it there. For a rectangular house, I find the entrance on the narrow side more limiting in terms of the floor plan.

Kitchen as the hub of the home .. I always immediately think of the connection with the dining area and the terrace. And then see living more as a retreat area.

I also think that you have to start completely anew here.

For reasons already mentioned, I find the utility room behind the bathroom absolutely horrible.

I actually quite like the idea with the kitchen. For us, it would be absolutely not an option. We are building a separate kitchen and guests don’t need to see our mess. But that would already be my main criticism. You just have to go through the kitchen regularly. Alternatively, there is a corridor next to it and the kitchen correspondingly narrower.

For the offices, I would allocate 4 sqm of traffic area each; 8 sqm of office space is more than enough for most things.

I think the idea of avoiding traffic areas is great and unfortunately, we also have way too much traffic area. However, I still prefer more traffic area rather than having to go through the bathroom to do laundry.