Floor plan city villa without basement 185 sqm - tips

I find your living room too small compared to the planned storage/pantry rooms. I also wouldn't know why two people would need so many storage options and why there should even be a pantry. I would completely leave that out and plan the kitchen there and move the dining table into the bay window so that there is also space for the couch. Why such a small bedroom/dressing room and an extra storage room for that? I would plan a house for two people with fewer small, separate rooms, rather fewer rooms and then more spacious ones.

Best regards
Sabine

Your private area seems a bit "underrepresented" for two people, so too small compared to the entire building and not open enough. The open-plan living area is about 44 sqm, sleeping 12, so not too generous, the proportion of utility/work rooms is quite large, which is why it wouldn't feel open enough to me. Actually, you both wouldn't have any concerns about noise and could design it really open if you like. Maybe it should be rethought once more and perhaps the option arises to have sleeping and bathroom downstairs, so you have everything private on one floor and working/guest area upstairs. Could you post the other floor plans? If replanning makes sense, you should do it. Nothing has happened yet. Storage rooms, possibly offices etc., maybe outsourced to an outbuilding and the main house actually reduced in size? The dining table also seems awkwardly planned to me there. The location of the kitchen is a matter of taste, but you have to walk the entire corridor to get there (groceries etc.).

I believe that extending the standard floor plan makes the hallway long, dark, and narrow, and is not good for the layout. On the ground floor, every day you first pass rooms that you rarely use before you reach the living area.

Personally, I would have at least swapped the kitchen and living area (and thus the storage room and pantry). And given your need for storage space, I would probably have considered a basement instead. Even though that is not cheap either. But this way, the house becomes narrow and corridor-like....

Upstairs you have a huge office with over 20 sqm. Do you really need it that big, or did it just happen?

The statement that the orientation is not final is a funny remark, considering that the building envelope is practically exhausted except for a possible bonus remainder that might still arise during measurement. The entire allocation of the width budget is based on the assumption that the garage must also be within the building envelope, which, however, may also be a misinterpretation. If this were a false assumption, it would also mean, with the consequence, that another basic model might have been wrongly excluded from the selection too early. I reiterate my suggestion to show the unchanged basic model for this purpose. Are possibly the other models of the GU also available online? – fundamentally, I find it commendable at first to want to choose from their "catalog" – at least as far as the wall construction is taken over 1:1, and in my opinion, ideally also the heating technology and the energy-saving regulation/KfW level.

Don't you have neighbors in the north?

4 m is not enough for a double garage, is it? It needs at least 5.5 m.

however, the symmetry is lost in the process.

Forget the symmetry and build from the inside out. Asymmetrical windows can give a house a special chic if properly proportioned. Even the balcony violates the symmetry and is still great that way.

Do you have ideas how a window arrangement on the upper floor facing SW could look and how to get light through the staircase into the hallway on both the ground and upper floors?

Light on the ground and upper floors:
Glass dome at the roof peak, upper floor hallway as a glass floor, glass front door, windows in the staircase.
Something less elaborate: fully backlit stretch ceilings in the hallways.
Even less elaborate: large round lights (60+ cm) with daylight and "dim to warm" installed flush in the hallway ceilings.
A glass front door always helps.