Floor plan discussion of a medium-small detached house with a pitched roof & double garage

The top right corner is correctly drawn. This corner already belongs to the neighbor in the back.

This is indeed a small problem regarding the use of the property..

The double garage is non-negotiable, unlike the chimney :D

..if it really has to be the double garage. The plot is certainly not generous; with the bitten-off corner, house and yard are pushed towards the garden by the desired double garage. I can understand hoping that the house with a basement will turn out nicely small. However, clinging so much to the basement and garage that everything else doesn’t matter (I have the feeling that the forum is supposed to improve the dressing room and the T-solution and then the mess will be built), that is incomprehensible to me.

Here we are talking again with the architect to see if an increase in the knee wall is within the budget.

Last week there was an apartment report in NRW: they stood in the new-build basement and the contractor explained that the basement has the most expensive sqm in construction. However.. Here: Priorities set! Yes to the double garage, yes to less garden because of that. Yes to everyday life, and since the budget is decent but the house is tight front and back because of the dimensions, no to the basement. That‘s it, have fun building the house.

I’ll also add my two cents:
OG:
- Wild idea: How about everyone puts their clothes in the offices? 1.5m wardrobe per office would certainly be doable. The wardrobe space could then maybe be used as a storage room for vacuum cleaners, cleaning supplies, bathroom stock (there’s no space for a cabinet in the bathroom), or added to the office space.
- Bathroom: The bathroom is quite narrow, you have to like that. For me personally cozier than a ballroom bathroom and can work well depending on usage habits.
EG:
- Are you tidy people who always put away shoes, jackets, etc. immediately? Otherwise I find it awful to walk straight into the coat rack area when entering a house. We have that in our rental apartment and we’re not exactly tidy. In the new building, the coat rack is now out of sight.
UG:
- Could it be that you have other hobbies requiring space for which you need the basement? I’m absolutely pro-basement, but you have to want so many square meters just for drying racks. Given the number of overnight stays, I also think you can put an air mattress in the office for guests once or twice a year if there really shouldn’t be a bed there, or let guests sleep old school on the couch.

And what do we actually like? :) Two equally sized offices with decent size, so that it doesn’t come to a sword fight over the bigger office

With all due understanding for possible humor, there seems to be some truth in it, which brings me to my actual points:
I have read the previous content and especially noticed unnecessary/partly nonsensical stipulations that will come back to bite you in other, more important areas.
How can you plan a double garage as indisputable without having found beautiful living spaces so far? In the basement, I see generously sized rowing machines, mats, and other things on the self-proclaimed most expensive living areas, whereas in the actual living space I get the feeling dwarfs want to live there. Of course, one can settle on the necessary two to eleven drying racks for life, but isn’t getting comfortable LIVING spaces the priority instead of garages and other things?
The previous comments are full of described corners, edges, and already apparent problems, and you persist in the price drivers garage and basement that you have set your mind on.
I keep reading sentences like “currently we live like this and are satisfied,” which then leads me to the question of why you are building at all. I don’t need to go into details and of course, one can live nicely in small rooms, but somehow everything is supposed to fit in, from the rowing machine to even the ample, here nonsensical fireplace, yet all in small rooms.
I don’t know if the cause of this is not due to the somewhat humorously portrayed description of the offices

And what do we actually like? :) Two equally sized offices with decent size, so that it doesn’t come to a sword fight over the bigger office

and that you simply have not yet agreed on the essential things, which in my opinion would be absolutely necessary here.
I would also advocate a fresh start here and at the beginning restrict the must-haves to the actual LIVING space and its comfort instead of worrying about my rowing machine or a 1 sqm smaller office than my partner.

As always quick&dirty on 11 x 8.. The chimney would have to be moved elsewhere among other things

As always quick&dirty on 11 x 8.. Chimney would still have to be moved elsewhere among other things

Maybe you should start your own business as a planner?

Maybe you should become self-employed as a planner yourself?

I was already self-employed and constantly busy in my old industry "starving artist" :D The clientele is dying out in the digital age. You can see it here too – even here planning was done by oneself and the expert is only allowed to make it nicely ready for the building application. Now it has to be enough – at least here – for quick & dirty.