He said it’s mandatory because of the shower height
Huh? Please don’t let yourselves be fooled. Yes, the shower obviously needs the space in height so that it can be set up at all. But you can just measure the height of your current shower, then you’ll know how much is actually needed. I also think the shower on the ground floor is exaggerated. Who’s supposed to use it? Get rid of it! The additional 80cm in depth are eaten up by the monstrous staircase. If the shower on the ground floor is removed and this room is optimized, there will be an insanely large pantry left. In my opinion, this space is missing in the living room in depth. I am at 4.70m and you only at 4.30m, even though I am 80cm smaller! In width I am at 6m, so cooking/dining is >= 28sqm. Of course, that’s a matter of taste. A platform staircase is nice, I would understand that. But personally, I wouldn’t plan it if the main living spaces suffer because of it. On top of that, there are the unnecessarily large rooms on the upper and attic floors. Also, it really is very large with 2.45m in width and over 3m in depth. Is this something you absolutely wanted? For me, the impression arises here that the architect wants to make the whole project as expensive as possible at all costs, so the cash register rings. An additional shower on the ground floor, an inflated attic, monstrous staircase to cover things up, built-in cupboards under the stairs are also not cheap. I’m curious what he will come up with next. Otherwise, I would also note that the bed under the sloping roof is already placed very far back and will probably cause plenty of headaches. The knee wall at 1m would be too low for me here. The cupboards in the office and bedroom under the slope can’t even be reached if you’re not a dwarf. Just look, the 2m line is far in front of them. Are you supposed to crawl there? What I also don’t quite understand: why is the washing machine still on the ground floor when the laundry is on the upper floor? If it is okay that way and it should stay down there, the laundry chute is still missing, right? By the way: I wouldn’t make the recessed doors in the two children’s rooms. That makes the laundry room smaller. There is enough space in the children’s rooms even without the offset, as you can see from the dozens of cupboards that no child needs. This whole “narrowing hallway with chimney hide-me wall on the upper floor” is not really my thing either. It feels tight, cramped and dark. I always prefer open, free and bright. Also, pointless corners like in the attic (near the chimney) always look restless and like an afterthought. I would rather straighten the wall and clad the niche with built-in cupboards or suitable shelves. The whole chimney and fireplace issue is also not ideal yet, if you ask me. If the fireplace is supposed to go there, I wouldn’t put a double door into the living room. Is the fireplace shown to scale there? Have you already picked something out? Regarding the pantry without a window and with a glass door – I couldn’t warm up to that. First, a pantry isn’t perfectly tidy, but rather a storage place where you don’t have to store everything perfectly in cupboards right away. Having to constantly see all that stuff through the glass would bother me a lot. Frosted glass doesn’t help either. Also, I personally find it ideal in winter just to open the window when the Christmas goose has to cool down so you can remove the fat. Also, if there’s a bad smell in the pantry because something went bad (yes, it does happen), I throw it out and open the window to air it out. Another recommendation, what we did wrong here because we didn’t know better: if you install underfloor heating including cooling, have the heating pipes laid in the pantry with their own switch. Our planner saved that because he thought it wasn’t necessary. Now we’re a bit annoyed because in summer we can’t cool the pantry. Maybe we’ll retrofit that (at the ceiling). On the subject of windows, I’m totally with you. This isn’t far from Hundertwasser anymore. I also don’t find the front door platform with the side wall so nice personally. That would be too bulky for me. I do like the window strip in the kitchen line. I like it even better if it goes around the corner, but that’s just fancy.