Floor plan draft for a 220m² single-family house

That would mean the terrace is practically in the upper right "in the middle of the living room - surrounded on two sides"? I don't think you gain much usable space in the end. More problematic are the possible placements in the living and dining area with the terrace wrapping around the corner. You could place the dining table underneath, which already feels cramped right next to the kitchen door. The couch/TV situation is similar to before. It would be interesting to see what the distance from wall to wall would be then. You had written 5.80. Is that realistic? The study would apparently remain as it is.

The exterior visualization would then be very interesting. I think the terrace area is bothersome somewhere if you look at the couch through the window on your left instead of having an unobstructed view of the spacious property. Instead, you look to the right, where it doesn’t look appealing and the terrain slopes down to the neighboring property.

On the other hand, I would have gone for a solution where the balcony basically stands above the open area below and you have a clear view to all sides despite the roof.

But I’ll also ask the other way around: If costs didn’t matter, would you still prefer your sketched approach or leave it as it was? I think this block would bother me a lot.

You could place the dining table underneath, which already feels cramped right next to the kitchen door.

Or change the transition between living room / kitchen, similar to the wall layout in the basement. And no, I don’t have time now to draw that as well

You had written 5.80. Is that realistic?

That was symbolic and referred to the gradual farewell to a sacred cow.

The exterior visualization would then be very exciting.

In reality, it doesn’t bother at all afterwards that you find translating visualizations difficult. That does not make the successful house any worse.

On the other hand, I would have gone for a solution where the balcony so to speak stands over the open space below and you have a free view in all directions despite the roof.

Top and bottom (instead of now "new" bottom and top) was my very old* approach - which would also work with a balcony placed in front of the bedroom.

But I also ask the other way around:
If costs didn’t matter, would you still prefer your sketched solution or leave it as it was?

I would do it like my most recent interpretation of your thoughts in #430 - and be happy about the money saved (and the tidier design).

*) my point from almost the beginning, painted in #248/274

I still find the floor plan from unfortunately not well developed. Spaciousness on one side and absolute bottlenecks on the other somehow do not go together.

Hallway .. huge, together with the cloakroom 27 sqm. Nevertheless, you have to walk from the door through the area where you then also enter the private rooms (staircase) in order to somehow get to the house shoes etc.

Passage to the living area (where, in my opinion, the drawn-in furniture with the couch on the right side is wrong) is narrow.

Cellar access through the kitchen with a door? What happens to garden furniture etc. in winter? In the cellar? Then try to take it down the stairs and immediately meet a wall where everything has to go around the corner.

Shower in the children's bathroom with entrance directly opposite the bathroom door I find very unfortunately planned.

Floor-to-ceiling windows in the hallway and in the guest bathroom ... for what purpose, why, how? In the guest bathroom, there will always be something in front of them from the inside so that the guest’s toilet cannot be seen.

Unfortunately, I still find the floor plan from not fully developed.

A "counter-design" from you could be the solution

After over 400 posts (about 450 including the roof subthread), I see the time has come to finally tighten some first screws – and to fix shortcomings in the layout of all wet rooms based on the further discussion of fixed wall positions.

Personally, I oscillate between finding the thread still "exciting" and being pleased about "progress" in the OP's process of insight, and on the other hand finding it tiresome that moving a wall by 30 cm already represents the maximum of what does not even have to be "visualized."

At least I have the impression that this is moving towards a solution – with Ev-Marie86 and Schnuckline there is no "success" visible so far; likewise with arnonyme and his pseudo-bauhaus in Pforzheim, which in my opinion suffers from "visualization" in a similar way.

And I am quite sure that R. Hotzenplotz will get things done long before Schustrik.

... no, that won't work, it is too clearly expressed that what I like to see in houses .. namely viewing eating/cooking as one unit and sofa/TV as another unit is not desired here. I'm also not a fan of going through the garage into the house, unfortunately I can't find the site plan either (a drawback here in the forum that no one tidies up and links essential plans/drawings in the first post so that they can be found again), I currently have little time and inclination.

no, that won't work, it's expressed too clearly that what I like to see in houses [...] is not desired here.

Oh, very unfortunate :-(

I'm also not a fan of going through the garage into the house,

In combination with the covered walkway between gate and front door, it is especially unnecessary / redundant.

unfortunately, I can't find the site plan either

I believe there wasn't one either - just photos / Google Earth aerial images. New development area from the 60s/70s, little slope, with a tree in front of the planned garage door, still built with a bungalow.

(a drawback here in the forum that nobody tidies up and links essential plans/drawings in the first post so that they can be found again)

Big like. That really is missing here.