Floor plan draft for a 220m² single-family house

Visually, I prefer the flat roof option. The garage in this eternally long row is just not my thing - in both designs. The cupboard in front of the floor-to-ceiling window downstairs is still wrong - but whatever. I would combine the airlock and the wardrobe and remove the partition wall. I would move the shower in the children's bathroom to the bottom of the plan, and the rest would shift upwards accordingly. What I am very unsure about is the basement stairs. Is there really enough space for the entry?

Where I am very uncertain is the basement stairs. Is the space for the landing really sufficient?

I need to ask again about that.

The other mentioned points are still being handled calmly. The garage is still in the old version as well... they said it moves a bit closer to the house....

Well, the "partial clinker brick cladding." The sprayed-on parapet is just as beautiful. Looks harmless in drawings, but imposing in "real life."

I had always said we want generous overhangs, whether with flat roof or hipped roof... but maybe it really makes sense to look at 2-3 reference measurements in real life... The question is just how to get to the reference objects.

I had always emphasized that we want generous overhangs, whether for a flat roof or a hipped roof

In other words: without this marching order, would there have been more pleasing designs from the start?

Where I am very unsure is the basement stairs. Is the space really sufficient for the start?

Never.

In other words: without this marching order, would more accommodating designs have been created from the beginning?

I cannot judge that. We said we liked something like that and then they planned. It was not discussed further, risks / problems were not talked about, etc.

On the topic of references: go to residential areas and sample exhibitions! If necessary, just look at this detail and measure/ask the seller/ring the bell of the resident. Not everyone can imagine everything (neither can we), but in the right places you can certainly find something to look at.

So, here I am again, with a little greeting from the witch's kitchen:

... and now I'll add a sketch of the upper floor on top:



(keep in mind it's just a sketch, even if it's colorful).

Just to show what could be done with walls stacked on top of each other; I didn't include differently placed windows on the ground floor for the sketch, only to show the room layout:

The bedroom could be above the office and the airlock, the beam allows the facade to be set back for a balcony. Shown here is a masonry parapet with a glass insert above the office window. I placed the master bathroom above the kitchen, with the children's bathroom next to it. The small room for the washing machine isn't the ultimate solution, more a provisional result of my thoughts. Arranging this room—like before with space for ironing—above the airlock would also be possible. Then even with a terrace on part of the garage roof.

Primarily, I tried to show what could come out of wall over wall and pipe over pipe—for example, that one child faces the street and the other the garden.

My roof idea for this is a flat roof, with a hipped roof section over the corridor on the upper floor (possibly entirely or partially glazed).