Floor plan EFH165 sqm first draft - Architect dissatisfied

Pantry, I would rather plan without it if you are not planning at least 300m².

Pantry, I would rather plan without it unless you plan at least 300m².

Yes, I think it’s a matter of priority. I find a pantry or even a small second kitchen very good, and you don’t need 300m² for that, but it is always a matter of opinion. I would be someone who would rather give up a 15m² bathroom with a bathtub, etc., or a shower bathroom on the ground floor, etc.
But everyone simply has to find out for themselves what they consider important.

We have removed our SK frames from the factory planning, as they almost always conflict with the kitchen and the guest bathroom. We do not miss them.

Of course there are always individual preferences, but I claim that 80% of all (prospective) homeowners have not yet lived with [SK] and greatly overestimate its importance for everyday life. My recommendation would always be, for the average single-family home, a larger kitchen or more space for built-in wardrobes in the hallway/utility room.

SK should be the pantry in this context.

Of course there are always individual preferences, but I claim that 80% of all (prospective) builders have never lived with a pantry and grossly overestimate its importance for everyday life.

I claim that well over 80% of all prospective builders no longer plan a chamber for the cheese dome in the north corner of the kitchen, but rather a junk room for hoarding bulk purchases as "preppers in the first stage" (i.e., for the quarterly supply of pasta from the "buy 12, pay for 10" offers).

My recommendation would always be a larger kitchen or more space for built-in cabinets in the hallway/laundry room for the average single-family house.

This is another common feature of this modern interpretation of the pantry concept: the blurring of the functions of pantry, utility room, and service room. Then there are also cleaning supplies, yellow bags, and the shelf with the bad weather shoes. But this faction of builders also has a little room for laptop bag, shoe box for tax receipts, and the wardrobe-replacement sleeper sofa, called "guest/office" in the floor plan. With a windowed door to the outside, so that it is bright enough in this misery not to have to turn on the light when throwing in more jackets and coats. The fact that some people build new for the "same chaos as before" already has a very special kind of comedy.