Floor plan design single-family house with around 150 m²

It would of course have been better to play through several furnishing variants with you here, as has only just been done now, and then to incorporate the most sensible into the floor plan.

I would consider any floor plan rubbish that only "fits" with a single furniture constellation – you might as well just use built-in cupboards and screw all the benches down. In my eyes, that would be the height of mockery if "own home" meant you had to sell the house again when you eventually got tired of the furniture arrangement you once considered the "best." You don't build your own house just to be envious of people who rent and have more flexibility in room design (just because you built your house down to the centimeter around some stupid furniture). All placement areas should be interchangeable modules among each other, and there should always be distances between them. Anything else creates capsular fibrosis in the floor plan. And if anyone thinks that 11ant is crazy again, that doing this consistently would require a much bigger house, they have basically formulated the most central furnishing insight at all: namely, that a furnishing concept starts with a checklist of what gets thrown out rather than what goes into the new house. Freely after Loriot: a "piano," a "piano," mother, we thank you, but now it's got to go!

I also used to have my books in the living area - I didn't know it any other way. But honestly, storing books in the living area now belongs to the last millennium, because they are unattractive and gather dust. A few nice pieces, a picture book, the old Brockhaus in a modern shelf... everything else should be passed on (paperbacks) or kept behind closed doors in the office.

That too is probably a matter of opinion. I have 2.50m of shelving in the living room, full of books, and most of them are paperbacks. And many of them I read again and again, I wouldn't give those away either. I don't find the spines all that undécorative. Recently, they were called a waste paper collection, suggesting they could be disposed of and replaced with decorations in the compartments. But that probably wouldn't really solve the dust problem... I actually find decorations much more likely to collect dust...

I also live very well with the knowledge that, unlike the "Generation Pisa," I can still access analog educational sources

In particular, paperbacks can be neatly placed "with the spine against the wall," as they only have the thin cover, which is hardly noticeable from the front. Or, as Oliver Jahn says, lay them completely flat. Then varying undertones emerge.

That is probably a matter of opinion as well. I have 2.50m of shelving in the living room, full of books, and most of them are paperbacks. And I reread many of them from time to time; I wouldn’t give them away either. I don’t find the book spines unattractive at all. Recently, they were labeled as old paper collection, which could be disposed of and replaced with decorations in the compartments. But that probably wouldn’t help with the dust problem... I actually find decorations much more of a dust catcher...

It was and is similar for me – I also find (many) books in the living room quite nice when they’re neatly arranged in a suitable shelf. Personally, I prefer an individual book collection to a bunch of interchangeable decorative items that clearly come from the usual décor store and show the arrangement idea from Pi***erest, but as I said – that’s purely a matter of taste. But, I have to confess, over the years I have significantly reduced my book collection because books 1. – when there are very many – can overwhelm one or the other room, 2. if the shelf does not (any longer) fit the number of books, it looks untidy because books are squeezed in and don’t stand in rows (admittedly, I am picky about that), and 3. are very heavy when moving. Especially due to point 3, I have reduced my books considerably and don’t miss anything, especially – here comes point 2 – because my storage (a closed cabinet with a glass door) now looks much tidier. What I also find quite nice, picking up on Tamstar’s thoughts, is not to store books "as usual" but sometimes also horizontally – there are very pretty shelves and furnishing examples for that (P**erest ).

I now remember that I stopped participating in the floor plan discussion for such reasons... because if you work something out here in the forum for someone else, there has to be input and output from the original poster.

I underestimated the complexity of the living space a bit. And what can I say... how is one supposed to know in advance everything about what one finds where, what one needs, how one feels... I couldn't have given the input anyway, because I myself didn't know where it was supposed to lead. And presumably, I would have wanted to hold on to all the furnishing items back then as well.