Floor plan design --- please share your opinions

Hi Olli, um, by the way that wasn't an attack from my side. o_O What you're saying is okay, but the tone comes across as snappy or irritated. Since you said you would plan it differently, I thought you already had this "different" in mind. And a hint of how you might imagine a solution approach would probably have helped Bau 2016 more than the side-swipe addition.

I would make it more open, then it immediately appears much more spacious.

Oh, nice, I would like that, I’m in favor of an open kitchen. :) And under the end of the stairs in the living room, you could build an aquarium open on three sides. ;) Ooooder - a bookshelf open on three sides. :) :) And the kitchen island is still missing. Wow, that would really be a huge room! The option to separate the "reading room" between the sofa and the stairs would actually still be possible here as well.

.. .. it's not that simple .. and with 9x7.5m external widths, you just can't do everything without load-bearing walls.

.. however, one should consider why there are 2 dining areas next to each other. Often it makes sense to view eating and cooking as one unit, preferably with terrace access, and then reading/living etc. as a second unit.

Hello Olli, um, by the way, that was no attack from my side. o_O What you say is okay, but the tone comes across as snappy or irritated. Because you said you would plan it differently, I thought you already had this "different" in mind. And a hint on how you could imagine a solution approach might have helped Bau 2016 more than the snarky addition.

Good morning

Sorry if it came across that way. I definitely did not take your post as an attack, nor was mine meant to come across as snappy and irritated, after all, I’m only here for fun.

I have already mentioned a suggestion for a possible improvement.

However, I still stand by my objections because I think it’s no shame to recognize that you can’t do everything yourself.

Olli

I also noticed the small wardrobe. Does it otherwise go under the stairs?

I am happy to repeat my question ;) If the answer is Yes, then I would like to ask about the priority of a straight staircase, which does not make many things easy. Especially the situation upstairs with the enclosed bathroom... A straight staircase should also be able to make an impression; with a wardrobe underneath it does not.

A child's room is already firmly intended as a study :), so we could not remove the reading room downstairs.

hm, can’t both be integrated?

We already have a lot of books and need to find space for about 4 meters of bookshelves.

Then you have come to the right person: I think you can’t keep every tome. Basically, you can part with all paperbacks to make space for new ones. Also, one should consider whether one or another book is still perceived as such at all. I have many books too, but at some point I stared at my wall and questioned whether it was time to sort out the teenage books or the encyclopedias from Bertelsmann Publishing. They were no longer decorative elements at all, and they diminished the valuable remainder :)
A tip: look on Pinterest for bookshelves or storage and design ideas.
From memory: your upstairs option 1 hardly had anything good, but at least it would have had capacity to showcase the books in the hallway.

We will/have to make the house wider now and are currently adjusting the floor plan.

You don’t always win by widening - ...

What I don’t understand is,
not having the courage, time, desire or whatever to start again from scratch.

... but rather by a fresh start, precisely to avoid the one snag that makes the design itself not work. As a layperson you usually don’t see why there is always a problem you can’t overcome.

We plan either a heat pump or gas heating and I don’t know if it would be a good idea to place the bedroom above the technical room, because of possible noises from all the equipment.

We have gas and controlled residential ventilation; you hear nothing at the utility room door... above a concrete ceiling even less ;)

Would electrosmog be an issue?

That would be an issue for me too :) But you have to look for yourself whether you are susceptible or not (psychologically as well as physically).

Passing-through rooms are always just a last resort for me,

Not necessarily: an attached playroom, music or office room (also a reading room) can be a nice extension. A library that gives a view of the bookshelf or the armchair through a wide sliding door and thus expands the living space can be a nice investment; however, such a room situation with sightlines is designed and not simply cut off from a corner of the living room.

You are certainly right about the versatility of a room that can be entered through the hallway :)

Regards, Yvonne

Edit: regarding the stairs: I don’t see a viewpoint in the plan from which you can get a nice view of this straight staircase. Not from entering the house, nor from the living room or kitchen door.