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

We are looking forward to the feedback and thank you in advance for any tips or suggestions. :)

What doesn’t please? Why? The planning is mainly focused on the usage,

I don’t see that. In the draft there are 4! areas where a long wall obstructs direct access: utility room, guest bathroom, bedroom and bathroom Those are planning deficiencies. Then the open-plan room, missing wardrobe, dining area too narrow and all children's rooms upstairs including bathroom have unused space near the door area. So, you really can’t say it’s “focused on usage.”

Creative architect-designed houses are great, but not only the architect costs a lot of money, the implementation does too. That would be nice, but we have set other priorities for ourselves.

I don’t think users will suggest you a creative design if they recommend you to see an architect. An architect, even one working for a general contractor, at least designs a house that does not include costly structural extras. They don’t inflate a city villa to a huge size causing unsuitable rooms and open spaces; they ensure good room proportions and good use of space. That’s how it should be anyway. The box has nothing going for it. Already the 12 x 12 is the wrong approach because (as you can see) ugly rooms result. It really hurts that you have to pay a lot of money for something like that.

In my opinion, you are saving in the wrong place. 3 children's rooms, guest + office rarely corresponds to the standard houses with 2 children's rooms + guest/office room. You need a free design. Whether through an architect or an ambitious general contractor (there are some who really design freely, but they are unfortunately rare and rather small).

Take a look at the Schwörerhaus E20 198.1.
It was the first thing that came to mind with 3 children's rooms and 2 VG and not square.
Not perfect but I find it more appealing.

Take a look at the Schwörerhaus E20 198.1 It was the first thing that came to mind with 3 children's rooms and 2 VG and not square

I don't think the Schwörerhaus is bad, especially from the garden side. The roof combined with the columns and the balcony is nicely done, but we probably wouldn't be allowed to build such a roof and have completely ruled out a balcony. That would leave not much of the appearance in the garden. I don't think the floor plan is bad either, but if the guest room upstairs becomes "Child 3," then a room and the HTR are missing, which in the catalogs is often hidden in the imaginary basement. So you would have to expand a bit and add an HTR downstairs and an office upstairs. That would be doable, but it leads to a size that is not much smaller than our design in the initial post and the children's shower bathroom is also "long and narrow" with Schwörerhaus. ;)

... and that’s exactly why you’re better off going to the non-standard house GÜ or architect. :)

A free architectural design will unfortunately hardly be possible for two reasons:
- in order to avoid separate financing of the land and the house, we have to fix the floor plan and house costs quite quickly and get the financing of the entire project underway. [...] With reference to the ideas already submitted and drafts created, a general contractor will hardly do that. So I would probably have to look for a new company.

That would very likely be a gain. An architect will require less time / effort than you will waste going around in circles with the design shown here. Structural engineers rarely say "no" (since their task is not creative consulting), but calculate the required effort to build the submitted design. So you will not be told by the structural engineer that it can’t be done that way or would be better otherwise. Instead, he will calculate the tons of reinforcement steel needed to implement the plan. As a result, the ceiling will be thicker so that the thicker steel can get the appropriate concrete cover. Together, this makes the ceiling heavier and more expensive and it must, in turn, be supported by thicker walls. The additional costs bring you to the point of having to adjust the financing, which nobody will want, so the house will be redesigned anyway. In the time that this unnecessary nonsense takes, a capable architect can easily conjure up a well-functioning house design.

By the way, thanks for importing the tone from the green forum. Finally, those who have already perceived me as curt can easily see that it can get a notch rougher ;-)

You are getting hung up on insignificant details - the point is that the elongated floor plan with the attached entrance and the staircase positioning results in a very cozy layout that is easy to use. The house doesn't come across as a block either, despite the almost 12 x 10 m. That strange bay window bump on the front is of course not worth copying, but breaking up such a large facade with offset components is definitely an option. I get the impression that aside from the symmetry problem of the facade views, you think your floor plan is totally great and want to present it to the general contractor who will just slap a price tag on it and start building. ;) Have you ever drawn your desired house as an exterior view? At that size, not much of the tent roof will be visible except a weird little tip on a box. (Your kitchen budget from the other thread with 15,000 euros is hardly feasible for the kitchen planning with Ikea...)