Floor plan design of a city villa with double garage approx. 150m²

First of all, a big compliment to the OP, who takes the sometimes harsh criticism content-wise and reconsiders it. That is unusual and deserves the reflex of tearing up a floor plan to be moderated.

Kitchen and dining table: There is no law that you have to be able to walk around a dining table. Docking it to the kitchen is basically a space-saving idea. The accessibility of the individual seats is somewhat limited by this. With usually 4 people, I hardly see that as problematic. With frequent gatherings at the table, it is. So it is a question of lifestyle. Even if the kitchen changes - you don’t have to discard the idea. On the contrary: even more space-saving and somewhat less practical would be a bench on the wall and the table in front of it.

Bedroom and "dressing room": A "dressing room" is becoming a "must-have" in new builds. Do you really want it? If yes, why put a large wardrobe in the bedroom as well? Most people need some space to dress. What is drawn is more of a walk-in closet than a dressing room. Also consider the routing - if the dressing room is supposed to fulfill the use of not disturbing the partner, it makes sense not to have to walk through the bedroom again while dressed.

Children’s room and hallway: If you add the current "parallel hallway to the stairs on the upper floor" to the adjacent children’s room and put the entrance door next to the stairs, then you can also move the wall to the other children’s room and create two equally sized rooms.

Natural light in house 1: In city villas it becomes particularly dark inside. I find the (partial) omission of the attic and a glass tip through which light comes into the upstairs hallway appealing. Thinking it through consistently, it then has a large glass floor portion and passes the light on to the entrance. It’s only for sock walkers with elasticity in their wallet.

Natural light in house 2: When covering the terrace, keep in mind that there is not only summer but also winter. The living area can quickly become a darkroom.

I’ll be direct: the square city villas are the worst floor plans when you want to furnish the ground floor.

:D I think so too – you get more square meters for the same money and then waste them directly in the floor plan. Why? Only build a city villa if the style is important to you.

First of all, a big compliment to the OP, who accepts and reconsiders the sometimes harshly expressed criticism in terms of content. That is unusual and deserves to moderate the reflex of tearing apart a floor plan.

True! :)

The door from the utility room to the outside is also absolutely unnecessary for us.

Personally, I would keep the door to the outside. Then you are directly at the place where the laundry can dry. Also quite convenient for gardening work...

Swapping kitchen and living room would really be worth considering..

I think the suggestion is more about swapping the office with the kitchen ;)

Bedroom and "dressing room": A "dressing room" is becoming a "must-have" in new builds. Do you really want it? If yes, why put a large wardrobe in the bedroom as well?

If you don’t care about it, you could also make it a storage room.

I would also go for the rectangle. That usually offers more utility for the living area.

Whether the garage goes there or in front, one would have to observe what happens with the house.

This house design is unfortunately already a considerably complete misplanning. From an inexperienced layperson’s perspective, everything is there and even seems well made. Unfortunately, the floor plans include "generosities" for which each floor would have to be as large as the entire house. In this respect, it is a pretty typical instead-of-villa – also with the window positions, which apparently don’t give a damn about the rooms that are supposed to be lit. Not only is there a lack of storage space, but the utility room will unfortunately have to be located in the "guest room" due to the completely unsuitable location of the housework room. Where are the trash bins supposed to go? – the roll path via the GFL street connection will be your private pleasure. Look for non-square rectangular floor plan examples.

First of all, a big compliment to the OP, who takes the sometimes harsh criticism content-wise and reconsiders it. That is unusual and deserves the reflex of moderating the tearing apart of a floor plan.

I fully join in the praise for the confident acceptance of criticism, but I would also consider moderation of the tearing apart of the design to be completely inappropriate.

Look for examples of rectangular floor plans that are not square.

This is generally good advice - just not for people who have fallen in love with the shape of city villas.

Most of what I would criticize has really already been said here.

At the beginning, we also planned with square city villas – but gave up on that quite quickly because you really have difficulties placing the furniture well in both the dining area and the living area.

I would advise you to simply plan with different house dimensions. Something much better can quickly result from that! It makes an incredible difference, I wouldn’t have thought that possible back then!

Since you don’t have a basement, you do have enough space for a wardrobe under the stairs; personally, I wouldn’t necessarily focus on that. The room layout is pretty "standard," which I don’t find bad at all, but I do think the utility room is too large and the W/E/K area too small – as I said, adjusting the house dimensions to "non-square" could certainly achieve a lot.

Regarding the terrace roof: Back then, we had even planned such a corner covering because we saw it in a new development area. In hindsight, it turned out to be ridiculously dark in the living room (in the area of the covering). Think carefully about whether you want a roof covering with actual tiles, or if it should later be a glass covering or something similar. A tile-covered roof looks really great – we took quite some time to let go of this idea. Just a note :)

The cooking area might seem somewhat dark with the one small window.

The long hallway area by child 2 has already been mentioned – I also find that unnecessary.

The dressing room is pretty "cramped" – I’d rather go for a regular wardrobe. But if a dressing room is a "must," maybe something can be done with the adjustment of the house dimensions?

Quite a bit has already been said about the bathroom as well :)

That is generally a good recommendation - just not for people who have fallen in love with the form of city villas.

Hmm, I wouldn’t say that - just 1-2 meters deviation from the non-square shape is enough to optimize the room layout. We are also fans of the "straight-lined" and typical city villa.

However, I also believe that a smaller deviation hardly goes unnoticed and you can easily get used to it - that’s why I find the tip quite useful for the OP.