Floor plan house / property

Thank you for the list, Elvis.

Kniestock 4m

Geschossigkeit: 1.5 floors (4m)

Am I correct in assuming that the knee wall on the upper floor is approximately 1.20 m, so you mean the eave height (total house height up to the roof base) with the 4 meters?

One more question: Why do you want to plan the house so that it can be separated?
Is it supposed to serve as a single-family house at first and later is the living space upstairs to be rented out?
Do you want to live yourself on the ground floor in the long term when you are older?
On the one hand, you basically have to ensure that the rooms (the apartments) function independently, meaning: even if there is a basement (common room), for example the office (later bedroom) should not only have a double bed but also enough space for clothing and laundry (-> closet space). On the upper floor, space for a functional kitchen under the sloping roof as well as a living area must be created. The bathrooms also must be planned in reasonably standard sizes.
Then one should take age and the resulting limitations into account. Do you want to include barrier-free access on the ground floor? Even if not, at least short distances should be considered and a long hallway, which can possibly become tedious with minor disabilities, should be avoided.
And another important consideration: Should the apartment upstairs not have an exit like, for example, a balcony? Do you want “strangers” living above you?
So far, I have only heard of tense living situations where the owner lives under one roof with a tenant...

When I look at the ground floor, I see only a sequence of rooms in a row.
Even if the orientations are correct, the “apartment hallway” would bother me. For me, that has nothing to do with the quality of a single-family house.

Would you like to share your thoughts on the points mentioned above once again?

Best regards, Yvonne

1.) Exactly, eaves height 4m.

2.) Why separable?

[*]Children might live upstairs in a few years
[*]Renting out (Who knows, maybe you’ll need the money someday :) )

[*]You no longer need the space and only live downstairs.
[*]Maybe you want to accommodate parents or guests downstairs.
[*]Maybe you want to separate the staircase sometime (noise, view, warmth)

Besides, you need the room downstairs anyway as an office/utility room and an additional shower doesn’t hurt.

Personally, the long corridor (we’re talking about 3.70m) doesn’t bother me at all,
we currently have a similar corridor and I’ve never given it a second thought.

3.) Balcony
We don’t want a balcony right now, but it would be "connected" on the upper floor west side, where the dining/living area would also be.

EDIT:
I forgot an important detail above, the house bends like that because it may only be about 7m on the east side, as there is a garage+storage area in front.

2.) Why detachable?

[*]Children might live upstairs in a few years
[*]Renting out (Who knows, maybe you’ll need the money someday :) )

[*]You don’t need the space anymore and only live downstairs.
[*]Possibly you want to accommodate parents, guests downstairs.
[*]Possibly you want to separate the staircase sometime (noise, view, heat)

Besides, you need the room downstairs anyway as an office/utility room and an additional shower doesn’t hurt.

If you want to cover all contingencies, then you also have to plan accordingly, see #19.

Personally, the long hallway (we’re talking about 3.70m) doesn’t bother me at all,

A long hallway is not exactly the be-all and end-all and nice-to-have just because apartments are equipped with them. Usually, it can’t be helped.
If you then want to get your beer or wine from the basement while sitting on the sofa, the long hallway to the basement and back can be quite a distance—unless, of course, Minna is there :)

The separation, of course, also costs money, so one should think it over carefully. All the relevant pipes must be laid, and the rooms upstairs must then be designed differently than they are currently. Besides, it naturally restricts you at first. One possibility would be to make the basement accessible only from the ground floor, so also provide corresponding space and connections for the washing machine and dryer upstairs. For us, that was not an option. We didn't want to rent out. You can be lucky with tenants, but you can also be unlucky. And did I want someone stomping around over my head... and then have to restrict myself so much in terms of space...?

To the stairwell in the corner:

Sure, if you want to go up/down, it’s further away. Otherwise, you place the toilet or pantry at the back and the stairs in the center. Then you have long distances there, where it is currently quick.

We have looked at some houses and we don’t like a completely open kitchen and an integrated stairwell. Above all, we don’t want to constantly see who is coming and going, and they almost always walk through our living room or at least close enough that you hear it. The children probably feel the same way, just the other way around. :)

Regarding the upper living unit: I think we only lay cables/electricity in the possible kitchen and plan it so that it can be remodeled without extreme costs. One room will be an open kitchen / small living room and the rest remains. Possibly the dressing room will become a small storage room.

How we really realize it then will depend on the budget. :)

A separate hallway with stairs and a complex design do not conflict.

Do yourselves a favor and leave your picture at home during the AR appointment. After all, you posted here to hear this or something similar. You are making exactly the mistake many laypeople make: simply drawing a hallway that connects individual rooms – whether there is a pantry in the way (then the hallway is just drawn around it) or some rooms lined up with labels on the left and right of the hallway, that is not a planning design.

Ich bin schon recht zufrieden und wollte mal eure Meinung hören. Im Anfangsstadium übersieht man ja doch einiges.

You have to interrogate yourself a bit and be a realist, not defend your own amateur mistakes. It’s nothing bad to not be an architect.