Floor plan EFH165 sqm first draft - Architect dissatisfied

Could it be that you absolutely wanted this dish and as a connector (airlock) towards the kitchen? That seems to be the root of the problem, which causes many things to turn out badly as a result.

: I don’t quite understand too many corners on the outside. If you have a bay window, then there can’t be fewer corners, right? The wall in the living room is mainly there because we don’t want it to be completely open. If the house were made rectangular, then living, dining, and cooking would be in a line, which is exactly what we don’t want. Or am I misunderstanding that? Alternatively, only an L-shaped layout would work, but then part of it doesn’t face the garden.

That with the pantry came from the architect. Sure, we initially found the short access practical, but it wasn’t a must-have. And that was also our feeling, that we were very restricted by it, because that also made the staircase only make sense where it is now. And because of that, the upper floor became so strange or didn’t fit our ideas.

Oh yes, another requirement was that the staircase should not lead directly from the entrance and under no circumstances from the living area.

Do you think planning would be easier with a straight staircase? For example, what we have seen in plans is that a straight staircase is used as a room divider between living and dining. But I lack a bit of the spatial imagination to know if that works when it leads off from the hallway.

Do you mean planning according to HOIA? We agreed on a draft plan with 2 changes at a fixed price. We wanted to save ourselves that according to HOIA or found it too unclear, maybe a mistake.

Oh dear – I fear the worst – if you got the typical Gerddieter architect specimen – then you have received your draft plan here at a definitely much too high fixed price.

Now 2 changes more, then into the bin and start over with someone else.
I don’t hope that for you, but it could be possible.

Maybe a carport instead of an expensive garage will suffice. We also have about 6x9m and separated the rear 3m with a wooden wall, which is now our garden shed (bicycles, lawnmower, etc.). You really can't make up a utility/storage room like that; what contract status are you currently in there? You would need a lot of lighting in the hallway so you don't constantly bump into this protruding stair extension; it looks as if copying it went a bit wrong? For the guest WC drawing, you either have to slap him or force him to live there himself with only that bathroom. If I were you, I would urgently get graph paper and draw all these things in exact centimeters and look at certain distances and measurements in my current apartment (distance toilet-sink-shower, etc.), then many things will become clearer. Nobody needs a terrace of almost 43 sqm, that's nonsense. Apparently, he rolled the dice for the windows; the one alone in the office is like that and not really feasible in any somewhat affordable way either. The ground floor is not necessarily spacious, but that is not necessarily bad if it were planned sensibly and cleanly. An 18 sqm bathroom upstairs, bigger than the living room—is that a gym? Oh dear, that also seems like it was rolled dice to me. I also don't understand the necessity of the two flat roofs, which certainly incur significant costs, while at other points living space is tight. Glass palace in the bedroom? Can you use the flat roof as a balcony? There, several thousand have already been sunk into railing, sealing, etc., without noticeable added value for you. I think he simply can't do it better, and further attempts would only consume more money/nerves; I would definitely stop that because it won't suddenly get better during construction. You want to build a nice house and get something like this, that annoys me. Almost everyone here has/had trouble during construction, so it is always just a question of when it happens to you. I definitely do not want to discourage you but rather encourage you not to accept that. You are a young family and deserve better—you are understandably not happy with this!

A lot has already been said about the ground floor.

The upper floor would bother me
- Bathroom is huge but nothing special. You go to the toilet in the dark corner. And the double washbasin is rather "lost" small...
- Children's room: size is okay. These niches are difficult to use. Bed under the window always bad, once even under a corner window.
- Bedroom: actually spacious, but at most 2.90 meters wide, leaving 80-90 cm at the foot end of the bed to walk through and for the terrace door(?)

No, pantry with 3.5m² and in the end only space for a shelf on the top left. The rest of the space is taken up by walking space and door opening. So 3.5m² used for 1m² of storage space. Save the pantry, you only need it if you preserve dozens of jars per year anyway. To stockpile the canned ravioli from Rewe, you really don’t need it.
The utility room is also huge, why?

If a 90cm cooktop is to go into the kitchen island, you still have 15cm of counter space on both sides.
The dining area fits exactly the marked table for 8 people, no more.

The children's rooms are nicely big and especially the same size, that’s good. The bedroom is huge but why? You don’t gain anything if you have 2m of space on each side of the bed.

This also applies to the bathroom. With 18m² almost twice as big as normal bathrooms and for what?
Bathtub, shower, a huge klonic toilet with 1m on both sides of the bowl and a double sink with 1.2m width, where two people can never comfortably wash their hands at the same time.
From puberty on, there is always only one person in the bathroom anyway. I don’t know of any case where Dad is showering while the 15-year-old daughter is lying in the bathtub and the 17-year-old son is comfortably doing his business on the toilet.

Make the bedroom and bathroom smaller, put the office in the upper floor and make the living room properly large. We built 152m² and our living room and kitchen have 57m². That’s where most of the action happens.