Floor plan and orientation of gable roof house: Experiences?

- Is the kitchen door under the stairs easy to realize? We would like to create storage space in the lower area of the stairs (e.g. as a pantry).

Of course it is possible. It makes very long distances from the kitchen to the dining table. That would bother me daily. Pantry under the stairs is a traditional solution - I would rather call it a food and drink cupboard.

- Is the home theater room poorly arranged for the technical requirements?

Draw in the dimensions of the equipment you want to install. Then you will see for yourself. Depending on the technology, it works or becomes very tight.

- Is the layout of the bathroom sensible? (We don’t want a bathtub, but a large walk-in shower (approx. 1 x 1.4 m)

Somewhat uninspired, but it works. In that case, I would make the knee wall space accessible as storage. The shower certainly looks better on the high wall than squeezed under the roof.

- Is the position of the doors selected practicably? Are they cramped on the 1st floor, or is there generally enough space?

Front door and guest WC interfere with each other. Otherwise it fits quite OK.

- Are windows in the crawl space sensible to prevent mold/reduce moisture? Or how would you solve that?

Have the building partner make a suggestion. If there is controlled residential ventilation, the question does not even arise. Windows are impractical up there.

- We would be interested in what you think overall of the floor plan and which orientation on the property you prefer (and why). We have two different orientations in mind: parallel to the street and to the neighbor.

I would not like to live in this house. The "living area" is far too tight for me, the way from the kitchen to the dining area too long, I would clearly prefer an orientation of the living rooms to the south into the garden, as I prefer life between indoors and outdoors. The many small enclosed rooms combined with small window areas can quickly create a "cave-like" character, which does not match my lifestyle preference at all. Of course, tastes differ and some people prefer it a bit tight and dark.

I suspect the GU as the licensee of a "noble" big name ;-)

heavily based on a GU floor plan (at least on the ground floor)

My general warning regarding this: you should never use GU floor plans as the basis for only one of the two floors, otherwise the other one will only fit conditionally (typical consequence: drywall construction around downpipes in less elegant places than in the original - here unfortunately hard to verify without measurements).

Thank you for your detailed, honest feedback. That helps me a lot.

They are groaning because of the low headroom in the bedroom bed.

You mean because of the low knee wall? Then would it be better to have a bigger bedroom where a knee wall is installed?

I don't see it as fully planned, just a three-wall distribution. I wouldn't do 1.40 either, if then 1.80.

What do you mean by "three-wall distribution"? Would you prefer the 1.8m because then the shower water doesn't spread in the bathroom, or for more comfort?

The shower surely looks better on the high wall than squeezed under the roof.

You're right. Would you then move the door further towards the eaves side to create space? Otherwise, on the high wall there is the door, sink with mirror, and window. That wouldn't leave much space.

I guess the general contractor is a licensee of a "noble" big name ;-)

Absolutely correct :)

How do you mean that with "three-wall control"?

It doesn't look planned to me, but simply the objects are distributed on the walls within 5 minutes.

You would prefer the 1.8m because the shower water then doesn't spread in the bathroom, or for more comfort?

Both!

You mean because of the low knee wall? Then rather a bigger bedroom where you build in a dwarf wall?

I would put up an affordable bungalow with your manageable desired 130 sqm—in L-shape, then with the terrace facing southwest! With your manageable space requirements, it is practically ideal.

This is a typical standard floor plan from Heinz von Heiden or Viebrockhaus... (with minor changes) seen live several times :)
Just saw #5: that's how I know it, and it works like that.

I suspect the GU as a licensee of a "noble" Big Name ;-)

;)
By the way, my neighbors don't have the middle "western" window, but instead two terrace doors with a width of 180 cm to the south. The door to the living room is a double-glass door.

I would build an affordable bungalow with your clear desired 130 sqm - in L-shape, then with the terrace facing SW! With your clear space requirements, it suggests itself.

Interesting approach, I have to recalculate it for us. I also like bungalows. However, our plot is only 17.90 m wide. Minus 2x 3m boundary distance leaves just under 12 m. And with only 660 sqm plot, the floor area ratio of 0.3 also becomes tight. The additional costs of a bungalow are also a criterion for us.