Floor plan 2 full floors - Feedback / Criticism?

Here is my two cents on the floor plan:

My "puzzle fields":
-Windows in the living room / couch side
-Experience with bedroom / children's room dimensions

With the north-facing location, be sure to take a lot of window area. A large window behind the couch with a windowsill at armrest height would be a solution – although I always prefer a view of the garden over a view of a TV set, but I am in the minority on that.
Children’s rooms are not too small. Of course, bigger is always better here, because when the children become teenagers and invite friends over, it’s nice to have a bit more space.

Where do you see mistakes, what could be disturbing, what should we definitely adjust?

If little storage space is needed and the family is disciplined about leaving little lying around, the floor plan fits. The special challenge is the combination of little storage space in the entrance area and children.

Where do you see mistakes, what could be disturbing, what should we definitely adjust?

No real mistakes – if you don’t drag a lot of stuff into the house.
The walk-in closet will be very impractical – better leave it out in favor of a larger bedroom with a good wardrobe solution.
The utility room is a bit tight. Relief would be moving the laundry logistics to the bathroom upstairs; there would be space and the working distances would be shortened. This can also be solved quite well design-wise.
If ironing is done in the house, where would that take place?

The tub will sit like a foreign body between the floor-to-ceiling windows.

That screams for a completely freestanding designer tub. Light in the bathroom is important; I would reconsider the window arrangement. Looking out from the tub has its charm, and against looking in, a blind or similar will help if necessary.

The potentially "dark" hallway scares me a bit, but I just hope that the large window at the stairs will still bring brightness?!

There are fantastic large-area daylight lamps that look like a skylight. That helps.

We are planning the house from the inside out.

Great. If we have criteria for that, we can better assess the floor plan.

For the bathtub, I was still thinking of a half-freestanding one, what do you think about that?

See above. Go freestanding and create an accent.

Yeah, pointless huge bathroom, impractical walk-in closet and therefore too small bedroom, WAY too little storage space.

As soon as a sauna is in the bathroom, the space is very well invested. Storage space is a matter of preference; we manage excellently with significantly less.

Sure, you can easily save square meters here, but how?

If the bathroom is important, just keep it big or put a sauna in.

Why do you find the walk-in closet impractical?

The walk-in closet is too narrow to guarantee proper storage and freedom of movement. In practice, you will pick out your clothes there and actually prefer to get dressed somewhere else.

Great if you get that for the budget. The doubters have good arguments.

Is everything else crowding in the back like that?

Nothing is crowding there :D
Every side and wall is well furnished. For 4 people (2 children) you have enough free space to get them ready, bathe them, or dry them off. No one is in the way, except bathtub visitors sitting on the toilet lid.
And it is zoned into quiet areas, partly with privacy, and the flow at the washbasin. Light comes from the left at the washbasin and there is plenty of storage space, also behind the door. Windows are where they are needed.

"We" wanted to make the bathroom smaller, which means you have to work on the layout of the ground floor/upper floor. Messing around with the "too big bathroom" doesn't help.

The size of the bathroom is absolutely okay as it is. I like it, and the rest of the floor plan works as well. So I don’t see any need to throw everything overboard because the bathroom might be about one square meter too big. The gain for the other rooms would be marginal. The idea of having the WC opposite the shower with a (half-high) wall to the bathtub looks nice, but when showering the toilet and the area in front of it will probably get wet. Better to have the WC next to the washbasin, although many people don’t like that either because you can see the toilet while standing at the sink! Natural light at the washbasin is indeed very useful. But I don’t really like Yvonne’s idea either. It can definitely be done better, but at the moment I don’t know how. I hope you’ll get some more suggestions.

And if the bathtub is shifted slightly to the left for me and the toilet is placed at the bottom right next to the bathtub?

Better definitely. I wonder if the tub really has to be between the windows. I never take a bath (but I do shower!), so I don’t know if you actually need the windows for looking out while in the tub. My first idea was to install the washbasin between the windows and the tub opposite on the wall. I’m just playing around a bit with the possibilities. Visually, the tub (freestanding or otherwise) is of course nice there, but would it be more practical otherwise?

And some natural light in the shower would also be good.