Floor plan design for a 160 sqm single-family house - Your opinions are welcome

Good evening,

after reading diligently here for a few weeks and already receiving many helpful pieces of information, I want to briefly introduce myself and ask for your opinion on our floor plan. I ask you for inputs that we might not have even considered.

My wife and I are 30 years old and have a 4-year-old daughter (no further children are planned). We live in Bavaria and bought a plot of land in Straubing a few weeks ago. We want to build our single-family house there by mid-2019.

For this, we have commissioned an architect with whom we are in close contact. We have attached our currently agreed floor plan.

Development plan/restrictions
Plot size - 680 sqm
Slope - no
Floor area ratio - 0.3
Floor space index - 0.6
Building window, building line and boundary: see attachments: blue and red dashed lines
Edge development: see red dashed line for outbuildings
Number of parking spaces: minimum 2 parking spaces
Number of floors: knee wall up to 1.2 m or over 2.0 m
Roof type: free (pitch for gable roof: 20-35°)
Style: free
Orientation: free
Maximum heights/limits: free
Further specifications: -

Requirements of the builders
Style, roof shape, building type: gable roof desired
Basement, floors: NO basement, 2 full floors
Number of persons, age: 3 (30y, 30y, 4y)
Room requirements on ground floor, upper floor
Office: family use or home office? Home office on ground floor desired (due to customer visits)
Guest sleepers per year: 15
Open or closed architecture: mixed, rather closed ;)
Conservative or modern construction: mixed ;)
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open kitchen
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: no
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: not necessarily
Garage, carport: very generous garage (two parking spaces plus storage)
Utility garden, greenhouse: raised bed planned
Further wishes/special features/daily routine, also reasons why this or that should not be

House design
From whom is the planning:
Architect (who is also active as a general contractor. Currently, he is only contracted as an architect with us)
What do you particularly like? Why?
What do you not like? Why? Compared to the current plan, we have already requested from the architect to extend the garage to the north up to the property boundary. Moreover, we want to move the southern house wall about 30 cm further south and use the gained space for the living room, kitchen, and bedroom/children's room, so that we reach about 160 sqm.
Price estimate according to architect/planner: none yet, as the floor plan is not yet final.
Personal price limit for the house, including equipment: 390,000 (incl. e.g. kitchen, garden, bathroom, photovoltaic system, built-in wardrobes. So move-in ready+), the plot naturally does not count towards the 390,000.
Preferred heating technology: natural gas BWT without solar thermal, but with central ventilation system, Energy Saving Ordinance standard.

If you have to do without, on which details/extensions
-can you do without: roof terrace
-can you not do without: storage space (since no basement)

Why is the design like it is now? E.g.
Standard design from the planner? No
Corresponding/which wishes were implemented by the architect? no "standard" exterior view.
A mix of many examples from various magazines? Yes
What makes it particularly good or bad in your eyes? Tailored to our individual wishes.

The drawn-in furniture in the living/dining area exactly reflects our current furniture. I am a bit concerned about the storage space, as we are moving from a fully basement-equipped semi-detached house (but for various reasons no longer want a basement) and quite a bit has accumulated in the basement that now must be accommodated elsewhere in the new house. Hence the very large garage and the large utility room.

The exterior views are currently being worked on by the architect.

The plot is located in a new development area.

I am looking forward to your opinions! :)

Best regards,
Pascal

The notched corner in the office looks ugly on its own and visually makes the house here appear narrower than the garage. In this arrangement of bay windows and girders, rectangular basic shapes no longer lead to a cost-effective construction method; one could just as well have chosen the path of more irregular shapes.

Ein Gemisch aus vielen Beispielen aus div. Magazinen? Ja

Maybe one or two too many?
Especially in connection with

Wenn Ihr verzichten müsst, auf welche Details/Ausbauten
-könnt Ihr verzichten: Dachterrasse

it seems to me that the time for a design plan is still too early, as many things are probably not yet fully discussed.

Meine Frau und ich sind 30 Jahre alt und haben eine 4 jährige Tochter (weitere Kinder stehen nicht auf dem Plan).

A contingency may not be as certain as amen behind the cost estimate, but if so, it will be tight :-)

The staircase changes its direction between the two plans (?)

[QUOTE="pascalf, post: 237395, member: 44026"] A mix of many examples from various magazines? Yes

Maybe one or two too many? especially in connection with

If you have to do without, which details/extensions can you do without: roof terrace

it seems to me that the time for a draft plan is still too early, as many things are probably not yet discussed. A "Tropi" doesn't come as certain as the amen after the cost estimate, but if it does, things will get tight :) The staircase changes its direction between the two plans (?) [/QUOTE] I first had to google what a Tropi is. :D In any case, we are doing everything to exclude a Tropi. ;) The staircase is actually drawn incorrectly, it hasn't been noticed by me (and apparently not by the architect either). The idea of the balcony didn't even come from us, but from the architect. Although more optical and less practical reasons are at the forefront there. Currently, we are not planning a balcony. By the way, the street runs in a south/north direction, east of the property (this is actually self-explanatory due to the garage location).

Is the plan oriented? North at the top?

If the office is actually supposed to be used for customers / visitor traffic, I would swap the space with the utility room so that people don’t have to walk through my entire house but are intercepted right at the beginning.

The dining area in the bay window seems very cramped to me. I would make it wider.
The notched corner in the current office has neither utility nor aesthetic value. (see 11ant)
The [Klafünf] is half in the living area and half in the dining room. It looks like you can’t decide where to mess around. I would prefer a clear separation or none at all.
I think the roof terrace is nonsense when you have a garden; no one sits there and it only darkens the living room.
I don’t like the long hallway in the entrance area. Also, I find it annoying when you enter and immediately run into a wall. The one closet for coats is also too little for me. I would therefore completely rethink the entrance situation.
Anyone sitting on the downstairs toilet almost bumps their knees against the shower. This is a badly arranged or too small layout.

By the way, the street runs in a south/north direction, east of the property (this is actually self-explanatory due to the garage location).

I don't find the orientation self-explanatory at all.
So you are planning the terrace on the east, the house and garden are oriented towards the east, defensively holding to the south and turning their back to the west.
Showing the property with site plan is probably more appropriate here than anywhere else [emoji6]

If there is customer traffic, I too would avoid having a customer wander through my house. The hallway is also not exactly inviting, much too long.

Edit: looked again... the street is on the right side of the plan????? Okay... [emoji6] then the orientation makes more sense.

I understood it as north being at the top of the plan - right? A north arrow on floor plans is really VERY helpful ;).

I also noticed the office with customer visits. For me, it is also in the wrong place and should be near the entrance.

If north is really at the top of the plan, then there are too few south-facing windows for my taste.

The path from kitchen to terrace through the narrowed dining area seems far too tight to me. The kitchen seems to have only a side-by-side fridge and no other tall cabinets planned. Oven? Raised dishwasher?