Floor plan assistance: 216 sqm single-family house with granny flat & double garage

You can fit everything in, it's just not a ballroom.

Then ask if he is still around ;)

If you already have such unusual conditions as here, you shouldn’t try to make a run-of-the-mill house out of it. The space is there, as I understand it, the sqm have to be purchased. I like ’s suggestions.

This is a completely different project. Why should you use premium living space, which is also paid for expensively, for air, only to then use less usable areas in the attic? This neither gains space on the ground floor nor makes the living space on the upper floor more livable. Just smaller and a wow factor paid for with poor acoustics. It is not an architect’s villa, but a single-family house with an integrated double garage, which is attached to a multi-family house.

You can fit everything in, it's just not a ballroom.

THAT is botched. Katja's proposal is absolutely worth considering under THESE circumstances and is an interesting alternative. In your criticism, you are always comparing with a blueprint. Of course, it would be better if living could also be downstairs, but the constraints here are so tight that the alternative of putting it upstairs is more debatable than with less tight constraints. I also find the open space fitting here because it at least partly restores the connection between living and dining/kitchen, despite being on a different floor.

You can fit everything in, it's just not a ballroom.

Yes and no, I have since spoken with an interior designer, she said it could work if you can cleverly position the staircase. However, you have to consider that, for example, the table is about as wide as a beer bench set... in reality it would be even tighter, the scale in the floor plan is misleading.

You can fit everything in, it’s just not a ballroom.

But of course you can also set up an open space on 37sqm. The furniture is just somewhat reduced somewhere. In your case, the kitchen. The question here is whether you accept that for 800K? Mini kitchen and entrance area like in a cheap hotel room?

Why should you use premium living space, which you pay a lot for, for air, to then use less usable space in the attic?

Because it’s nicer? I had the impression that the OP doesn’t need dozens of small or large little rooms, but rather a liberation stroke for the open space.

That neither gains space on the ground floor, nor makes the living area upstairs more livable.

In my opinion exactly that.

Just smaller and with a wow factor that comes at the price of poor acoustics.

Acoustics should be well planned, you’re right about that.

It’s not an architect’s villa, but a single-family house with an integrated double garage, attached to a multi-family house.

And that’s why it absolutely has to remain a small cramped standard house?

And for the toilet, do you have to either run upstairs or downstairs? And upstairs you only have sloping ceilings, which are so great for furnishing? You basically live on the stairs.