Floor plan design and placement - Single-family house approximately 200 sqm on a 900 sqm plot

Hello everyone,

we would like to get feedback on our current planning for a single-family house. Here is the completed questionnaire.

Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: 911m²
Slope: no
Floor area ratio: 0.3
Gross floor area ratio: 0.45
Building window, building line and boundary
Edge development: garage only
Number of parking spaces: 4
Number of floors: 2
Roof shape: gable roof
Style:
Orientation: The garden faces southwest, the house is about 5m from the street, parallel to the street
Maximum height/limits
Other requirements

Requirements of the builders
Style, roof shape, building type: single-family house, modern, gable roof main building, green flat roof extension and garage
Basement, floors: basement, ground floor, upper floor
Number of people, age: currently 2 adults (mid-30s), 1 toddler, planned for 2 adults and 2-3 children
Room needs on ground floor, upper floor: see floor plan
Office: home office (full-time work from home, 2 offices required)
Overnight guests per year:
Open or closed architecture: open
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen, cooking island: open kitchen in U-shape with counter or kitchen with cooking island
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: optional, rather not
Music/stereo wall: yes
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: double garage with two parking spaces in front (we currently have 1 car, possibly 2 in the future)
Utility garden, greenhouse: only recreational garden
Further wishes/special features/daily routine, also reasons why this or that should or should not be: full-time work from home, therefore two large offices required. The plot is a corner lot at two streets, therefore the L shape of the house is intended to shield somewhat from the streets and create a protected garden area. If a third child comes, one office should become the third child's room. For this, a small office area will be separated by a drywall partition in the bedroom or a basement room will be converted.

House design
Who designed the plan: planner from a construction company (with do-it-yourself input)
What do you particularly like? Why?: 2 equally sized children's rooms, 2 offices with enough space for full-time work (>40 h per week), large living/dining/cooking area, extension offers light and noise protection from the street
What do you not like? Why?: staircase ends at the front door, possibly dirt is carried inside from outside
Price estimate according to architect/planner: approx. 700k for KFW 55 incl. garage and basement, solid construction
Personal price limit for the house, incl. equipment: approx. 800k incl. exterior works
Preferred heating technology: air-to-water heat pump

In the living/dining/cooking area, the kitchen should be U-shaped with a counter or a cooking island all the way to the left. Then the dining area, and after that the sofa. The stereo system, with large floor-standing speakers, should be on the wall opposite the kitchen. A piano and a tipi (children's play tent) should go into the extension. Alternatively, the sofa should be in the bottom right corner and the speakers at the end of the extension.
The offices should have space for a large desk (2m x 1m), a wall of shelves, and a small seating area.

If you have to do without, on which details/expansions
-you can do without: fireplace/stove
-you cannot do without: offices

Why has the design turned out as it is now?

Combination of our suggestions and the planner’s ideas during a joint site visit

What is the most important/fundamental question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?

The most important in 130 characters:

[*]From your point of view, is the floor plan good, or have we overlooked something important?

Detailed questions about the floor plan:

[*]Does the entrance area seem too large?
[*]Do you have alternative ideas for better design of the staircase (currently we are considering a U staircase with landing or an L staircase with landing)? We had a variant drawn with an entrance bay window so the staircase does not end directly at the door. But that costs more and maybe the entrance area would then be too large?
[*]We are still considering reducing the number of windows in the living/dining/kitchen area, what do you think? We are afraid it might get too hot in summer due to the southern exposure (raffstores are planned).
[*]Further consideration is exterior roller blinds or raffstores on the first floor?
[*]We are also uncertain about the living room layout. On the one hand, we want two large floor-standing speakers optimally placed for a stereo triangle, on the other hand we also want to have a view of the garden from the sofa.
[*]Regarding the windows on the upper floor, we are uncertain: Does a floor-to-ceiling window make sense in children’s rooms? Or is it rather dangerous? We also planned a window next to the bed (on the same wall as the head of the bed). I am also uncertain whether that would look strange in reality. Or maybe put the bed on the opposite wall (but then your head is directly facing the children's room)?

Questions about placement:

[*]On the lower side there is a very busy street, on the right side a less busy street. Currently the house is about 5m away from the lower street and 8m from the right street. If we move it further upwards, we would have more quiet from the street, but the garden would become smaller and the “wasted front yard space” larger… What do you think about that?
[*]Do you have any creative ideas to move/extend the house further to the right? On the left side there is a garage, so we would like to build directly onto it.

Variant 1:
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Variant 2:
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Placement:
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Thank you in advance!

Best regards
Samantheus

Is a two-story building allowed? According to the floor area ratio/floor space index, I would rather guess no.

How many square meters is it in total? And where is south (I probably overlooked that)
I would advise against floor-to-ceiling windows in bedrooms. Although they look stylish in photos, they are uncomfortable because residents are led to believe in the evening that one can look below the belt.

How many square meters are there in total? And where is south (I must have definitely missed that) I would advise against floor-to-ceiling windows in bedrooms. They look stylish in photos but are uncomfortable because in the evening they suggest to the residents that one can look below the belt.

Unfortunately you missed that. There is a compass rose shown in the last attachment.

I have floor-to-ceiling windows in the bedroom. I have no neurosis. There are always still blinds. ;)

I would move the whole thing 1 m towards the street. The street noise is the same because of the 1 m.

Are no noise protection windows planned on the street side?

700k hopefully only for the house including the integrated double garage, right?

I have floor-to-ceiling windows in the bedroom. I don't have a neurosis. There are still blinds. ;)

So that I can't look or the neighbor can't look at my legs? I had a house that had floor-to-ceiling windows throughout. Blinds or not: they make it dark, and even if only half down, you could nicely see the legs that had stuck out from under the duvet and walked along the bed. It was asked, and from me there is exactly that recommendation!

Unfortunately, you overlooked. In the last attachment, a wind rose is shown.

Thanks

700k hopefully only for the house including the integrated double garage, right?

Yes, that makes me suspicious too.