By the way, Blaupuma, you can do the same with your furniture: just take a pencil in your hand once in a while, so you can get a feeling for dimensions and spaces.
Is that a symmetry neurosis?
I am currently having quite a strong déjà vu here, with Schustrik’s project, see (symmetry fixation, granny flat, resistance to advice).
Priorities lie elsewhere for everyone.
But not necessarily in a way that directly leads to Waterloo!
I have difficulty extracting anything meaningful.
And I have the same difficulty regarding making an effort to give you concrete starting points for improvements. It really is so fundamentally flawed that patches won’t help; a complete rewrite is needed.
At first, I don’t see a “bungalow” here at all, but visually a one-and-a-half-story house. Then I see the desire for Scandinavian-style openness, which – however – particularly emphasizes tightness (as it occurs here in several room widths but also overall dimensions like those of the pantry “kitchen”). I am almost impressed by how much tightness you manage to create in such a spacious house.
The attitude “we don’t need a garage” is something you first have to afford. But who can afford that: not to care whether their house would fetch a good price at auction? – a building of this size without a garage is like a Mercedes S-Class with crank windows, something that will only be sold to traveling carpet traders.