Floor plan design for a single-family house 230-235 m² on two full floors

I hope that the structural stability is not problematic, but that will only be determined by coordination with the experts. Let's hope... :)

If necessary, the showers could be made smaller.

What is an allraum? The term is new to me. Kitchen - dining - living are together about 70 m².

From the drawings, I read rather about 80 sqm. The acoustics are probably like those of a gymnasium. But in this house, you will have already collected 10,000 steps before 10 a.m. :D You are considering making the showers smaller to save money. The house can easily lose 30 sqm without it being noticeable with good planning. That would be a saving of about 80,000 euros compared to the few dozen thousand for a less luxurious shower. When I look at your project description and the floor plans, I only see "savings made at the wrong end."

"Possibly the showers

From the drawings, I rather read about 80 sqm. The acoustics should be like those of a gymnasium. But in this house, you already have 10,000 steps by 10 a.m. :D

You are considering making the showers smaller to save. The house can easily lose 30 sqm without it being noticeable with good planning. That would be a saving of about 80,000 euros compared to the few-fifty thousand for a less luxurious shower. When I look at your project description and the floor plans, I only see ‘saving in the wrong place.’"

The shower referred to the questionnaire "what can the builder do without." We would actually like to implement them that way, but I won’t pay 10,000 euros more for three larger showers. If the price demand is too high, the showers will be smaller. However, I do not want to make the construction project cheaper that way; that was not the intention. RoomSketcher tells me about 57 m² for living and dining and about 14 for the kitchen, so about 71 m². We are absolutely open to building 30 m² less if the "character" or utility value roughly remain the same. However, many designs and variants as well as various conversations with construction companies and their proposals have unfortunately never managed that. We have seen interesting designs with about 225 m², but the difference then always showed up in smaller children's rooms and a small office. Maybe that is exactly the architect’s achievement (we will see that in the architect discussion), but I find it difficult to imagine building a house with 30 m² less and still getting exactly the same value?

I also give my children plenty of space, but 18 sqm children's rooms are already very, very large. And do you want to live alone on 230 sqm in 20 years? If you can easily handle a construction project of roundabout 1 million, then of course it is great to plan a lot of space. But I would really advise hiring a good architectural firm for that. Then even 230 sqm will be cozy, interesting, and usable with fewer people. More intelligent storage space, better utility rooms! - instead of a guest suite with its own bathroom. I see a lot of luxury there, but it is not luxuriously planned, just middle class simply in big. There are such fantastic architectural examples of luxurious family houses, I wouldn't just blow up a townhouse. I recently had the book 100 Dream Houses from Callwey Verlag placed on my desk. I can only recommend it as inspiration.

If you want a shower, for example 200 x 100 cm, that costs an extra charge.

Well, for us that doesn’t matter at all, so I would be surprised if it costs significantly more than 200 EUR. With near certainty it will not be a four-figure amount.

With a size like that, I definitely wouldn’t do without a good architect.

There are good ones at GÜs, too – just not all of them, so you have to search a bit. But precisely for that reason, I wouldn’t show up with a "finished" design there, because then you don’t see how good it really is.

I find the bathroom not feasible without dimensions on the ground floor as well as the upper floor: there are tight spots. Provide dimensions, then one knows more.

Der Kühlschrank ist von RoomSketcher

Beim RoomSketcher habe ich noch keine Möglichkeit gefunden, Maße mit einzublenden.

These are reasons for me to work with other planning methods.

Wenn das 200 oder 300 Euro für etwas mehr Fliesen sind wäre das ok, sind es 2.000 Euro würden wir auf die großen Duschen verzichten.

I find this attitude questionable.

Ist die Preisforderung zu hoch, würden die Duschen kleiner.

I would rather pay attention to ensuring that space is available where it is actually used. The multipurpose room is not advantageous. Personally, I don’t like the layout at all. You use the shower several times a day… on the upper floor dimensions are missing, I find the children's room too big.