Floor plan for a single-family house without a basement / 4 persons

I would also put the stairs on the side of the utility room. The utility room has a good size if you still want to store something, could also be bigger. We have 40 sqm for cooking, eating, and living. And that is enough for us. But in any case, I would do the kitchen planning and compare the cabinet capacity with the current kitchen. Regarding the pantry: always a matter of taste, but every door also means less space for furniture. Maybe you can use the space differently or access it through the hallway if it is supposed to be a separate room.

The planning is still unrefined; just briefly using the example of kitchen/pantry. According to you, the pantry consists of 4/5 walkways and offers hardly any real storage space; the door from the kitchen should be placed centrally to the pantry; the door from the hallway should be removed. In the kitchen, you should install a simple 2-row layout - this is on one hand more cost-effective and also more practical as a bonus, offering more storage space. The distance between the rows should not be less than 1m. The distance between the island and the dining table should also be about 1m.

I also agree with the criticism of the others, by the way.

Basically, I am thinking of a later division of the house, which I would not promote now. You must turn the staircase, then everything will look much better. And then it will also work - right now you wouldn't even make it upstairs without a head wound and a bump - because of the low ceiling height... :D The bathroom on the ground floor is dropped (but that doesn't matter), upstairs it is located differently. But honestly? It can all be done much better... there is a functional standard floor plan in there if you straighten everything out, and then there are no too long or wasteful angled corridors, but a harmonious overall design. At the moment, the finished attic definitely does not work: cupboards under too low ceiling height doesn't work, beds should also be pushed somewhat out of the ceiling height... it will work out, but: the general contractor should pull a single-family house without a basement out of his drawer. He will certainly be happy to do that.

Hello everyone,

thank you for the first helpful opinions and suggestions. I have now revised several things (see attachment):

- the "storage room ground floor" is, for example, intended for two bicycles/sleds or similar. I have integrated the room into the utility room.
- replaced the narrow wall staircase with a landing with a quarter-turn staircase and moved it to the utility room
- removed the door from the hallway to the pantry, access only possible through the kitchen
- I have not yet completed the kitchen planning. It should be a two-row or U-shape. Would you recommend removing the west or south window? Or leaving both? What do you think? The kitchen dimensions are generous at 4.50m x 2.74m. Our current kitchen is 3.23 x 2.23m in U-shape. A 45cm wide granite slab is to serve as a bar on the wall (approx. 130cm high).
- What do you say about the walkway to the front door? I tried to avoid SW + RW for aesthetic reasons. Can I let grass grow over it or is it better to integrate it into the walkway?
- The problem with the cabinets under the low sand-lime brick unfortunately cannot be solved differently due to the regulations. I was thinking of cabinets for sloping ceilings.
- shower on the ground floor is not desired

I estimate the house to be about 11.30 x 9.90 m in external dimensions, thus 1.40 m deeper than proposed. Does this explain, in connection with the height restrictions (what is GH, is a dormer height limited separately?) the reduction of the knee wall from 1.20 to 0.95 meters? (with 37° roof pitch I would rather arrive at 53 than 25 cm less knee wall for 70 cm less half house depth). Your attic feels to me like an upper floor, i.e. as if you derived the floor plan inspiration from a town villa.

I estimate the house at approximately 11.30 x 9.90 m in exterior dimensions, so 1.40 m deeper than proposed. Does this explain, in connection with the height restrictions (what is GH, is a dormer height limited separately?), the reduction of the knee wall from 1.20 to 0.95 meters? (with 37° roof pitch I would rather come to 53 than 25 cm less knee wall for 70 cm less half house depth). Your attic feels to me like an upper floor, i.e. as if you derived the floor plan inspiration from a single-family villa.

The exterior dimensions are currently 11.30 x 10.20 m. GH = maximum allowed building height for flat roofs

I designed the attic floor plan as I found appropriate. So without inspirations. Attached are the cross-section and floor plan from the general contractor (with exterior dimensions 12.0 x 9.80 m).