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

morning. I don’t understand quite a few posts. The fact is that nowadays you can’t just freely choose a plot of land and/or construction project. It’s a seller’s market and there is a certain scarcity on the market. I can very well understand that not entirely optimal projects are carried out. How about focusing on the needs of the OP and helping him/her. what do you need?

Don’t be discouraged. Maybe take one, two or three steps back again and then rethink the floors. Due to the low ceiling height, an open space, even if it is very expensive (because apparently the price remains the same no matter how many sqm of living space are created???), could certainly result in a nice kitchen with dining area. Actually, the architect should support you with this.

Do I understand correctly that it is as shown in red in the picture? (Very roughly)

What rough additional costs would the beams and the modification incur? You will certainly have to pay for the structural engineering + beams, right? Hopefully not so much that it becomes unaffordable with gallery and open living space [/]

Good morning everyone, Feedback from the architect: …the wall in the upper floor living room would have to be moved onto the garage wall, and the wall between the stairs and the workroom moved onto the underlying wall in the ground floor toilet. The windows facing the garden would have to be arranged so that I can run a beam from the wall between the stairs and the workroom under the ceiling over the upper floor in the area of the open space, and the support runs from the attic side to the ground floor on the garden side. Then it should work. Do I understand correctly that a beam would have to go across the open space from one long side to the other long side of the house?? I don’t know whether to cry or laugh right now :/

The OP probably doesn’t have a choice, here in Berlin it also applies, buy or someone else buys

Of course we will pay that… we don’t have a cost estimate. Can the architect give a rough estimate? Or could one of you roughly estimate it?

What just occurred to me... If the walls in the attic are shifted as above so that it goes in a line from top to bottom... then the home office and utility room in the attic disappear because they become too small. Instead, the bedroom and children’s room become larger. You can see that well in Katja’s drawing.

Thanks! That’s exactly it… The problem is also that we are increasingly being pressured because the BT wants to move forward. He now wants to know which floor plan he should give to the statics. I feel overwhelmed... so much money and then I’m supposed to design a house for our life with all contingencies from very limited possibilities within 2 weeks. Others take years for that...

I don’t know if I can come to terms with the separated living room in the long run.