Floor plan draft for a 220m² single-family house

And where is north now?

In defense of those involved, I must say that we also have many wishes such as the distance between the couch / TV wall, kitchen facing the street, etc.

I wanted to mention that earlier as well, but then I preferred to leave it to you - after all, it's called self-realization.

If it then turns out AFTER we say that this is final for us and can be passed on to execution planning that the budget is suddenly far above plan and that the project is statically not feasible in this form, then I think,

... the architect clearly lacks experience.

The situation as it has now developed is completely new for us for two days and must first be processed.

I believe that is rather due to the "blind spot" and was seen much earlier by the other discussants.

For a house of this size, I would find anything other than a straight staircase or platform staircase unacceptable.

That somewhat raises the question: which came first, the chicken or the egg? – i.e.: the staircase for a large house or a large house for a straight staircase?

There could be a causal connection buried there between the budget overrun and the conception arising from an addition of large-house details.

After an apparent healthy downsizing, such bizarre compositions arise as a four-meter-thirteen panoramic window in a sixteen-square-meter children's room.

Healing does not seem to me to be what such attempts are aiming for.

Planning setbacks are annoying but widespread.

Steps back from the abyss are supposed to be healthy.

As a suggestion of similar size for the search engines:

BR Dream Houses season five
A modern house in the old town

The house there in Bamberg...

Thematically, "A house with a cinema" seemed even more fitting to me.

So, I went through the thread here: North is top left, right?

That means: on the ground floor, the cloakroom and guest WC got the premium side of the house. I mean, taking a dump in a nice setting has something to it, but you can overdo it....

I would do without one thing: direct access from the garage to the pantry. That's nice if it fits, but here you’re limiting yourselves.

Then the kitchen can move over to the south side, the office/guest room stays, the terrace from west to southwest, and that way the kitchen has terrace access AND is on the street side.

Children’s rooms on the south side, utility room to the northwest, there you can make an exit onto the garage roof and possibly green it to use it for putting out the drying rack. Bedroom, dressing room, and bathroom can stay as they are.

I’ll roughly sketch that as an idea, in my first idea that works with a half-landing staircase, or would it also be an option for you to have access to the upper floor from the living area?
Then you could separate the office area from the living room with a straight staircase, you had the idea that the office area should belong more to the living area. That would fit quite well.

I’d be happy to roughly sketch the room concept once with a straight staircase, once with a half-landing staircase. However, the downside here is that you can no longer get from the garage to the pantry. That was always my wish too, but I think you can live without it quite well.

BR Dream Houses Season Five A modern house in the old town

The house there in Bamberg...

No idea if the orientation and the open kitchen suit you, but architecturally really nice... Structurally something would certainly have to be simplified.

By the way: We also do glass partitions in front of stairs; can be frameless but really expensive. All VSG glass etc...

We do not do glass partitions next to the stairs for cost reasons. Although visualized, it is not included as an extra item in the previous cost planning. And it is not worth the money to us.

The googled house looks nice from the outside but I think it doesn’t help us much. I think you have to work your way through the desired room program and it makes no sense to just throw a completely different exterior architecture into the ring now. Especially since we don’t like these floor-to-ceiling windows and want a closed kitchen.

Does the staircase have to be straight or can it also be quarter-turn?

It can also be winding. Not ideal but it would be an approach. However, several users said in the course of this thread that for such a house they see no other staircase than a straight one or that a straight staircase absolutely fits our floor plan.

And where is north now?

The living room faces northeast.

I think that’s rather due to the "blind spot" and was noticed much earlier by the participants.

Well, there were also experienced participants who could live well with the last draft. The budget overrun is not the core problem either. We can handle that with some targeted adjustments. In principle, if necessary, solely by waiving the hobby room and the huge basement. Likewise, I see potential with the roof terrace. With a bit more renunciation beyond that in the ground floor and upper floor, there remains more scope for a very high-quality finish, among other things in the electrical and exterior areas.

Our bigger disappointment rather resulted from the necessary rough interventions in the original planning due to the static calculations – but more than pointing this out to my architect I can’t do – it’s impossible to go to a building expert to check the latest draft in detail after every planning step.

We will get it done. You have to be persistent and pursue your goal.

So, here just very roughly scribbled on scratch paper the spatial concept for the solution with the podium staircase:



And here with a straight staircase from the living area to the upper floor:



Overall, one could also consider possibly changing the house shape a bit: you still have a lot of land in front. Just as an idea.

But otherwise, I would definitely move the kitchen to the other side; this also allows for easy access to the dining area and you don't have to go through a small door (large sliding door, double-leaf door, etc.).

Upstairs both children's rooms with balcony. If there is going to be a balcony, then please put it where it will actually be used (if at all, the children will use it) and where it makes sense (namely facing south).

Everything else is just a rough concept now, not to scale etc. You have to see if it works out.