Floor Plan Check - Single-Family House with Double Garage

Development plan/restrictions
Size of the plot; 600 m²
Slope --> No
Floor area ratio --> No development plan
Plot ratio --> No development plan
Building window, building line and boundary --> n.a.
Edge development --> n.a.
Number of parking spaces --> 2 parking spaces
Number of stories --> 2 full stories
Roof type --> Flat roof
Style --> modern
Orientation --> Southwest
Maximum heights/limits
Further requirements

Requirements of the builders
Style, roof type, building type --> Flat roof, modern
Basement, floors --> Basement with two full floors
Number of people, age --> 3
Space requirements on ground floor, upper floor
Office: family use or home office? --> Home office
Overnight guests per year --> None
Open or closed architecture --> ?
Conservative or modern construction --> Solid construction
Open kitchen, cooking island --> Cooking island
Number of dining seats --> 6
Fireplace --> None
Music/stereo wall --> None
Balcony, roof terrace --> Balcony
Garage, carport --> Double garage
Utility garden, greenhouse --> No
Further wishes/special features/daily routine, also reasons why this or that should or shouldn't be

House design
Who is responsible for the planning:
- Planner of a construction company --> Own basis – drawing by a construction technician
- Architect
- Do-it-yourself
What do you particularly like? Why? --> Basically everything except for exceptions
What do you not like? Why? --> Living area in my opinion too small, staircase too big, children’s room basically thought to be larger
Price estimate according to architect/planner: 800,000
Personal price limit for the house, incl. equipment: none
Preferred heating technology: heat pump

If you have to do without, which details/expansions
- you can do without:
- you cannot do without:

Why is the design the way it is now? E.g.
A prerequisite for us was that both the parents’ area and the living and dining area are on the planned side because we have a wonderful view of a monastery on a mountain there.
We did not want the guest WC next to the entrance door.
Moreover, the entrance through the garage is extremely important to us.

The position of the drawn furniture only reflects a rough framework.
The cat room in the basement is merely intended as an additional retreat. The cats are of course allowed to live in the living area.

A prerequisite for us was that the parents' area as well as the living and dining area are located on the planned side because we have a beautiful view of a monastery on a mountain there.

Left side of the plan or where? If the view is so beautiful and important to you, why isn’t the seating area also planned to face it?
Even if the sofa were arranged differently – it gets quite uncomfortable by the staircase wall, firstly because the wall is quite short to place a family-friendly sofa, and secondly, you have a lot of traffic space behind you, which is not cozy. Overall, I would say that the dining and living areas are a bit too small in proportion. In the Flair 134 you feel like you have more living comfort.

I don’t think your “prerequisite” has been successfully achieved here. The entrance situation drags on until you can anticipate a nice view. Utility rooms wrongly separate the living space by being placed in the middle of the house.

The bathroom is larger than the children's rooms; that doesn’t come from proper planning but simply from sticking rooms together as they roughly fit on the paper.
The staircase is pressed too much to one wall side, making a proper room layout difficult and resulting in these large, echoey spaces.
The passage from the garage into the house works, but why do you end up in the utility room where laundry is done? Wouldn’t it make more sense to plan the cloakroom there?! Dirty shoes and clean laundry don’t go well together.

Light wells should also be avoided on a terrace.

What about the rest of the plot? Site plan? Is it a Par 34 development? Don’t rules still have to be followed there? The information is very sparse.

Is there also a plan of the property, preferably with the surroundings and a north arrow? Is the view unobstructed? Is there an existing house? No price limit is always welcome to hear.

Hello,

the available space for the living room and dining room is too small, and the furniture does not appear to be to scale.

The living room is also not particularly cozy when you only look into the hallway or sit directly in the line of sight from the hallway.

The hallway above is quite dark, so there should be a skylight there. Overall, the arrangement of the staircase and hallways is unattractive.

The estimated price is tight and only realistic with basic equipment.

Best regards

What are those asterisk lines: the building to be demolished; is this included in the budget?

What don’t you like? Why? --> In my opinion, the living area is too small, the stairwell too large, the children's rooms are generally planned larger as well

Just to understand me: if you design the house yourself and just hand it over to a professional to sign off, how do such conceptual deviations even come about?

Also, the entrance through the garage is extremely important to us.

A modern house is basically built around this passage anyway, unless I’m the only one doing it that way, of course. Who wants to meet greeting neighbors just because they don’t enter their home drive-in style?

The cat room in the basement is merely intended as an additional retreat. Of course, the cats are allowed to live in the living area.

How sure are you that you correctly understood the meowing wish?

By the way, I see no terrain reason for the almost empty basement.

Hm. The room proportions seem very unusual to me. Unsorted thoughts and comments:
- The main bathroom is huge. Having a lift-and-slide door (as far as I saw correctly?) past the bathtub onto the balcony is also innovative. Or rather: daring. I would seriously consider whether I would arrange the rooms upstairs as they are.
- In particular, I can’t find a really good solution in my head with the staircase and (I assume) gallery there. It creates a huge, almost unused hallway (16.6 m²!) upstairs, larger than the individual children’s rooms. Huge main bathroom, still quite large children’s bathroom. Both bathrooms combined are only slightly smaller than the two children’s rooms. No direct access to the balcony. I would really consider changing the staircase to better design the upstairs areas. The huge bathroom can be great if you like something like that and consider it a highlight. But the hallway upstairs will be really difficult to use properly. (I would take a half-landing staircase, making the staircase overall narrower. This would make the living area bigger as well as the children’s rooms. If possible, extend the hallway upstairs to a balcony door and adjust the other rooms accordingly. This could also allow changes downstairs to soften the long tunnel a bit.)
- The entrance area through the main door is a long, narrow hallway. Somehow I don’t like it, it feels tunnel-like. But I can’t think of a solution spontaneously.
- The idea of making the pantry accessible from two sides seems good at first. At the same time, it costs wall space. Here, too, I wonder if the arrangement of the utility rooms in the middle of the house is really successful. (I think this is what unconsciously bothers me—the ratio of living space to utility and circulation areas seems unbalanced to me.)
- This described great view of the mountain monastery is somehow not staged enough for me. Especially in the living area itself, it could be better showcased with a somewhat different room layout and different windows.