Floor plan critique welcome

If it can't be done otherwise, your architect is not creative enough. And many also said in the beginning: that can't be done like that. Then we looked for a good architect, who strangely managed it.

We also only gave very few specifications about what we want and some more about what we don't want. That seems to have helped.

Hallway is too narrow... no freedom of movement :(
There is nothing to say against size and bungalow...

Once the children are teenagers, the adjacent rooms aren't so impractical after all. I see problems during the care age. The question is whether you want to send the guests to a teenager bathroom :rolleyes: Then it would be better if the parents' bathroom could be used for that, so it shouldn't be built as a confined space. When I look at D*** house on the web, there are some bungalows planned like that, with an adjacent children's wing – typical for Dammann... Apparently, you have a large building plot, so you should be able to come up with something different?! But without a site plan, there's nothing useful to say...

The floor plan feels Danish: children's rooms are rather public in the entrance area, maximally far from the parents; cooking/eating as a central distributor also for parents with their own en suite bathroom, while the children are left with the guest WC.

This basically works but assumes that one does not want the otherwise usual clear separation between private/public and has no problem with passage and distribution rooms.

Given this assumption, the implementation through the offset of the hallway, the dining area located rather far from the windows inside the building, the very tight bathroom (acoustically dominant and possibly with disturbing access), the children's room with a door directly at the head area, the unrecognizable TV integration, and the far too narrow, dark hallway in the entrance area is rather below average in success. A site plan and neighboring buildings are also necessary for assessment.

WD

Phew, a lot has already been said... I would like to bring up the topic of children's rooms again: 1.5 and 0.1 years... You still end up running to the kids quite often at night. And the distance is doubly inconvenient: a longer way including driving around the kitchen island and then the door. And without a baby monitor, it will probably be impossible to hear the children from the bedroom...

The children's rooms cannot be furnished like this either. Where is the wardrobe supposed to go? For Child 1, the door would have to be moved towards the bed, then it works. For Child 2, this "nice" slope is so much in the way that nothing works at all.