Floor plan changes for end-terrace house from the developer

One thing I really don't understand either is why the staircase isn't winding at the exit of each floor. That would make the left wall after the staircase on the ground floor more usable, provide another storage corner on the upper floor, and ensure that when coming up to the attic you don't have to run into the sloping roof, which would also create a better desk corner there.

I have to admit, I don’t see it that way. Strict development plans, fine. Changes to existing buildings are also a reason for little flexibility. But a new build?

Why not? Personally, I prefer dealing with limits when planning, because it requires more thought than just a bit more and unnecessarily added bulges to the floor area everywhere. The same applies to the budget. That poses challenges for the planner, not arbitrariness. In this case: I myself had this floor plan on the ground floor, just a bit narrower: the entrance area was too tight, many things would be planned differently if one could ... if it were a single-family house. But we were able to live very well with this floor plan, and I don’t know anyone (and I know quite a few with this townhouse structure) who ever gave thought to being dissatisfied with the ground floor. The stair layout was also never brought into dispute. Nevertheless, the demand for optimization before construction: is the stair rotation basically off the table? Also a spiral? With a spiral, you can gain more space for furnishings, for example, in the upper corner of the plan.

Why not? Personally, I prefer dealing with constraints when planning because it requires more mental effort ...

Well, it's about maximizing the implemented wishes of the OP, less about the puzzle fun. What possessed the developer to install a straight staircase with only 10.5m house depth is a mystery to me. The missing windows on the west side are also a mistake that can't easily be rectified. And yes, I have also lived in a similarly designed house with this narrow entrance. We never got used to it and found it silly the whole time.

Your satisfaction is also somehow a good that you do not want to jeopardize. If neither stairs nor windows are allowed to be changed, the scope is in my opinion limited only to the furnishings.

Yes, it is probably not much more than that. The business of the property developer is not to serve dreams shattered at the delta between wish and feasibility, but the transformation of building materials into affordable dream approximations. The compromises are as harsh as the field of servable customers is to be large. If low-income people are to have any chance at all and middle-income people are to come into the enjoyment of homeownership earlier, strict saving is unfortunately necessary. In this respect, I do not see a property developer here as the enemy of a "beautiful" but as a friend of an "at all possible" realization.

In the greater Düsseldorf / Cologne / Rhine-Ruhr / Rhine-Main area (as currently seen with Wilma at Krausbaum near CGN in ), such a "small" paradise is already a comparable effort to Tomek’s hipped roof bungalow in Brandenburg’s Jottwedeh.

One thing I honestly do not understand either is why the stairs are not turned at each floor exit. That would make the left wall after the stairs on the ground floor more usable, [...] and in the attic ensure that you do not have to walk into the sloping roof when coming up [...]

What possessed the property developer here to install a straight staircase in a house with only 10.5m depth is a mystery to me. The missing windows on the west side are also a mistake that cannot simply be remedied.

Regarding the staircase, the developer indeed deviates from the majority of comparable solutions here, but I consider the proposed additional window on the gable side to be unproblematic and successfully desirable.

The rotation of the staircase is basically off the table? Also a winding staircase?

I spontaneously immediately looked for the reversibility of the running direction (even before I wondered that there is here “quasi non-standard deviation” not only no second but no winding staircase at all). But a load-bearing wall in the basement speaks against it, which probably does not need to be discussed in the concert of the structural system of the house. A winding staircase would mean a special construction here, which in this case would probably also be a "logistics disruption factor." Apparently, the developer uses the same staircase model from ProHaus three times here, whereby I interpret the pre-stair landing between the first and second upper floors as a hint to the combination "underfloor heating on the ground floor with a modest floor height." Middle years of the house are not lordly years, one could say ;-)

I would place it (floor-to-ceiling) "under the space between the gable windows."

Does that have structural reasons or just for aesthetics? :) The lady from the special requests department (great name) said I should sketch the window, then they can check it again. So I guess we'll have to think about it :eek: If I transfer "the space between the gable windows" down to the ground floor, I get something like this: The view might not be the nicest (next to the parking space, there will be our city-mandated forced hedge ;)) but I do think that would help? The light will probably be rather diffuse in general and not hit directly (reminder: north is at the bottom of the plan, the window faces almost exactly west), but that also has its advantages.

Well, it’s about maximizing the implemented wishes of the OP, less about the puzzle fun.

Well, I was referring to this ;)

which I am already sure will make some forum members unhappy.

By the way: getting bigger and bigger mostly leads to nothing here in the forum that actually gets built in the end. THAT is what I call just playing around.
But I have made my suggestions.

but I do think it would help?

Definitely.

The lady from the special requests department (great name) said I should sketch the window, then they can check it again. So I guess we’d have to think about that :eek:

I would still involve the upper floor in the planning.
So what about the stairs now? Can they be changed in this position or not?