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

I have a similar idea to Romeo Zwo. However, I find it unfortunate if you have to go through the bedroom to get to the dressing room or bathroom. I also don't really like the corner in the children's room. Since you have a basement, you might be able to get by with a smaller utility room upstairs and instead give the children a bit more space in the bathroom. If you don't want glass in the shower, you should place it in a corner so that the water can splash against a wall. If you leave it simply open at the front, there will be larger puddles. In my solution, the hallway would also be a bit tidier and your bathroom would work nicely as well, including drainage. By the way, the windows have not been adjusted yet.

Without having already tried it in the floor plan, it was said that there is a fairly busy road on the side of the ground floor extension. That means that is also the noisier side of the house. So maybe put the bedroom on the other side of the house after all? Often it is also the case that the bathroom with the bathtub is used by everyone, possibly in combination with a shower bathroom in the parents' area and a large bathroom as the family bathroom?

Thank you very much for the answers and suggestions!

WC EG: Yes, we plan to have the pipes and connections installed directly.

Dressing room window and use: That's correct, in the last floor plan the dressing room windows were still drawn with an alternative variant. We prefer the single floor-to-ceiling window in the dressing room. That way, everything would be as in the now attached floor plan. We also do not want to use it purely as a closet room, but with a wall of wardrobes on one side and armchairs, a chest of drawers, mirror, etc. on the other side.

Bathroom drainage: With this information, I have followed up again and a direct planning of the bathroom drainage is now being carried out and will be sent to me as soon as it is finished – I am curious and will report here.

Floor plan variants: Thank you very much for the effort with the sketches. Both make a good impression. However, we like the second variant better than the first because we want a direct access to the utility room from the hallway and a slightly larger hallway also creates a nice open and spacious effect and does not give the feeling "it was optimized for every cm² to save space" (we like it a bit more expansive). Then you can also reach the washing machine if the teenage girl locks herself in the bathroom for 2 hours...
Regarding the right side of the stairs, we still like our variant best because the bathroom there is closer to the entrance area of the parents’ section and then someone else can also slip in more easily. The very private area of the dressing room is somewhat hidden so that clothes can also be left lying there without everyone immediately seeing them. If a swap is necessary for drainage reasons, we could basically also imagine it like that. However, we would probably leave out the separate door to the bedroom and only use the door at the entrance to the dressing room. Basically, our idea with the parents’ section was to set it up a bit like a junior suite in a nice hotel, i.e. a bit more spacious (for example, having space to roll out a yoga mat next to it) with a small, only slightly separated but open seating area (dressing room) and a well and quickly accessible bathroom that is directly integrated. We are also considering possibly executing the parents’ bathroom door as a kind of glass sliding door, as often found in hotels.

Side swap: In the original plan, the children's room and the parents' section were actually swapped; during the planning phase, the side was then changed. The background was that the space on the right side was too large for the utility room and children's bathroom, while on the other side the space for the dressing room and parents’ bathroom was somewhat tight.

Floor plans with correct dressing room windows:
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The background was that the space on the right side was too large for the utility room and children's bathroom, while on the other side the space for the dressing room and master bathroom was rather tight.

Then swap the stairs with the entrance. Less paving will be needed from the driveway side then ;-) . With a nice staircase (perhaps with appropriate lighting) there will also be a nice view from the living room through the double French doors (glass?). And also no direct view from the front door into the living room. On that occasion, the lower WC could also be better integrated and the transition to the garage nicely incorporated into a wardrobe.

Quickly (without extension) ...

Ground floor:


Upper floor:

Thank you very much!

That opens old wounds... we actually discussed a similar variant at the beginning of the planning phase, but at that time we hadn’t yet considered the drainage issue. Nevertheless, we thought about it back and forth for a long time and it was never really off the table. So it’s a variant that we also like very much. In direct comparison, I find this variant better than the previous ones where the stairs remained but the dressing room and bathroom were swapped.

What I personally like better:
- Ground floor hallway area, WC, and garage transition: in this variant it’s simply clearer/nicer
- Drainage is uncritical
- Smaller entrance canopy / paved path

Where I am unsure:
- Stairs opposite the living room door: I think both variants have something going for them here. We planned our variant so that when you open the front door and come in, you have a clear line of sight all the way from the front door through to the garden. That would then, of course, be lost. What made us unsure with the stair variant back then is the entrance to the living area. In the end, you have a "three-doors-corner" which might look a bit cramped, and the basement stairs would then be closer to the living area and not in the door and garage area. Maybe it would then make more sense to have an open basement staircase or a door in front of it and really illuminate it somehow with LEDs on the walls or so. Then it could certainly be nice. But how it feels to look from the living room down into the basement... I don’t know. On the other hand, with this variant you are somewhat more "protected" in the sense that the hallway is a bit more separated and provides visual protection to the living area. That can, of course, also be an advantage in some situations.

What I liked better previously:
- Upper floor division: Here I would rather try to mirror the current design. So move the staircase a bit further to the right and make the master bathroom a bit smaller so that the dressing room can extend to the exterior wall, making the dressing room in the bottom left corner. The idea of the "dressing room as a passage room" just doesn’t appeal to me. It should feel like the most protected area in the back corner where no one but us would get lost.

I think I will have the planner draw this variant again, including windows, so that we have a direct comparison, also from the outside view. How do you see the two variants in comparison? Would you make the basement staircase with or without a door in this variant? We plan a solid wood folding staircase. The entrance to the living area should become a glass door, probably (contrary to the drawing) a single-leaf door with a fixed glass panel next to it.