Floor plan bungalow with granny flat - floor plan feedback

I am really surprised, I did not expect such a reaction.
That borders on bullying.

I wonder if you all have something against living on the ground floor or what is going on here.

Of course, everyone sees me from the living room when I go to the bathroom.

But I want the children's room and bedroom to be as far apart as possible, don't I? It is even worse if the child sleeps next to the living room. They understand every word the adults say in the evening.

Of course, an open area has less privacy, but in my opinion, it also has its advantages.

Yes, and you are right, the symmetry from the outside is important to us. (more important than a perfectly designed children's room).

Hmm.

I am really surprised, I did not expect such a reaction
This borders on bullying.



I wonder if you all have something against living on one level or what is going on here

Of course, everyone in the living room can see me when I go to the bathroom.

But I want the children's room and the bedroom as far apart as possible, don't I? If the child sleeps next to the living room, even worse. They understand every word the adults say in the evening.

Of course, an open area has less privacy but, in my opinion, also has its advantages.

Yes, and you are right, the symmetry from the outside is important to us. (more important than a perfectly designed children's room.


Hmm.

You can skillfully design a single-level home and then it’s great.

Ah, symmetry is more important than functionality.
That’s how they built Versailles too. Very fancy, very representative, but unfortunately forgot the toilets, which is why the gentlemen and ladies defecated in every corner.
Everyone must decide for themselves what they value.

I’m out...

So we also have a bungalow. Also one that is very open in design. By no means perfect children's rooms. But: when I have to go to the bathroom in my nightgown, my husband's friends don't see my backside when I go to the bathroom. Since the bathroom separates the master bedroom from the children's rooms, they also don't hear the bed squeaking. Still, we have a reasonably large kitchen, space for the fireplace, and can comfortably pass by the dining table. We do not have an entrance through the utility room. We would never use that either. What you have designed there will be properly furnished but cramped. Serious advice: start completely from scratch. First build your domicile. Whatever is left over can be used by the mother-in-law. No one here wants to bully you. But it should perhaps give you something to think about that across the board everyone considers the design unsuccessful. And there are people involved who really know what they're talking about.

What I don’t understand:

[*]Why does the bedroom have to be in the south?
[*]Why should one have to go from the bedroom through the living/dining room to get to the bathroom?
[*]The small kitchen in the main apartment doesn’t get any better if you move it further to the right side of the plan or block the access to the outside

[*]Why must the entrance be exactly in the middle?
[*]Pure symmetry is boring and creates internal spatial constraints. A house must radiate harmony
[*]If you also consider that the granny flat could be rented out, then the flat should at least have a reasonably decent kitchen
[*]Why can’t, for example, the parents be under the roof with a small shower bathroom? In return, a study downstairs… relaxes the space on the ground floor
[*]Why can’t the so-called atrium area be used for sitting?

What I can definitely see as guidelines for ideas:

[*]Separating parents and children is okay

[*]Granny flat completely separated, as it’ll be rented out later
[*]Garden area separable, since the granny flat could be rented out someday

What I always find questionable

[*]Side entrance from the parking space… well, I have never understood that, because you still want a nice main entrance or to leave the house on foot without using the car and then have to go to the side entrance first, or have visitors who don’t use the side entrance, but the house slippers are right there… etc.

To figure out what the rooms can offer yourself. You can paint over the drawn-in furniture with white boxes in a drawing program and then print the plan blank. For that, you make your furniture templates to scale and then move them back and forth. What you like you photograph with your smartphone… and presto, you can shuffle furniture even without an architect.

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I think you have gotten stuck in the idea --> Children must be separated from the parents <--. That is certainly a reasonable approach, but separated does not mean in exactly opposite corners of the house. You already have a significant restriction because of the designated granny flat, which takes up space. I have also very, very rarely seen bedrooms adjacent to the living room and never voluntarily in a new build. I don’t understand what this is supposed to have to do with an open floor plan, nor where any advantage is supposed to be. Open is nice, but it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t make sense to have doors at strategic points. What use is an open floor plan if your wife gets cold feet every time the children come in through the front door? It’s also great if you have the entrance centrally located and the children spread the dirt that inevitably accumulates there between the living area and the children's room.
- More than enough has been written about the kitchen and the furnishing of the living room
- Location of the bathroom relative to the bedroom as well
- The staircase doesn’t fit there either and looks like a foreign body
- The living room offers no space to place a cabinet/dresser
- The pantry is a joke with 1.5m² and its geometry (well, a vacuum cleaner might fit). If the door is open, no one can get into the living room anymore
- The width of Children’s Room 1 is tight
- The corner in Children’s Room 2 takes up a lot of space for the kitchen again
- The passage of 1.82m is useless there if only one meter remains between the kitchen island and the wall.....????!!!!
- An endlessly long hallway to the utility room/children’s room, which is wide and thus eats up square meters, but still offers no space for furniture
- Utility room far from the ground floor. If you really want a “mudroom,” you either have the wardrobe, shoe racks, etc. twice or you carry the dirt all the way to the front door. I wonder anyway why the two entrances are so far apart? Just so there is a nice front door in the middle??????

Actually, not a single room in your design fits except, with some compromises, Child 1 and the WC. Therefore, I cannot understand how anyone sticks to this floor plan. The old saying comes to mind:
"You can do it like this – but then it’s just dumb."

It is not bullying. It is an attempt to let honesty prevail.

I find the draft a debacle. Many others apparently feel similarly. The wisdom of the many is exactly what you want to tap into in a forum. That it is not to your liking can have two reasons: a) they are all wrong b) you are fixated on the wrong priorities.

No one can create the egg-laying wool-milk-sow bungalow + [Einliegerwohnung] + fixed rooms + super symmetrical view + good living functionality – and the architect who messed up the floor plan, if it was an architect at all, can do it the least.