Floor plan - House with 2 residential units for rent

I still do not see storage rooms in all apartments; in NRW, at least 6 sqm per residential unit must be demonstrated. Laundry is probably intended to be dried in the apartment or on the terrace/balcony. Do you plan to include a ventilation system? Where do you plan storage/parking options for bicycles / strollers / walking aids, etc.?

Basically a good idea, but I don't want to haul my household upstairs over an iron staircase during a move (possibly in snow and rain)... I also don't know if that's allowed (doesn't it have to be covered then? Like some kind of attached stair enclosure??? Something like a covered walkway)

How about an external staircase? You don’t have a basement, so you won’t lose that many square meters. A nice iron staircase on the outside of the house and you gain a lot of square meters upstairs and downstairs.

The external staircase would of course be good, but I also share the comments from Climbee

Basically a good idea, but I don’t want to lug my household up an iron staircase during a move (possibly in snow and rain)...
I also don’t know if that is allowed (doesn’t it have to be covered then? So some kind of attached staircase enclosure??? Something like a covered walkway)

Also, this staircase would have to be within the building plot. So you don’t necessarily get that in either....

Where do you plan parking/storage options for bicycles / strollers / walking aids, etc.?

Here in BW, we have to provide proof of two covered bicycle parking spaces for each apartment, which also allow the bicycles to be securely locked. So we either do this with a corresponding garden shed or with a canopy and a fixed bicycle pole, bracket, or similar.

That should be practical now, even if it’s still not particularly generous.

Well, a combination of a 3-seater, 2-seater, and armchair certainly won’t fit there. You can also make the dining table smaller. And I don’t see the access to the balcony either.

However, I wonder under what conditions you are operating. It’s probably not about BT houses, where you only want to change the floor plans? And which target group do you want to address?
If I were single and looked at this apartment in reality, I would ask myself where there is space for a sofa.

I also don’t know if that’s allowed (doesn’t it have to be covered then? Like an attached stair housing??? Something like a corridor walk)

No, why? Here we have many attic conversions with attached stairs, certainly without a roof ;)

I gave it a try, and I have to say that furnishing it is possible. However, I wouldn't fit three people into this living room. The furniture is standard size - kitchen is a placeholder