Floor plan house with granny flat - improvement suggestions?

This is indeed a compromise solution, on the other hand you also sacrifice quite a bit of living space just for a utility/technical room. I looked at a house in the development area yesterday where the utility room was also relocated to the garage. So it would be possible. However, I will talk again today with a technician from the municipal utilities to get certainty on this.

That’s already very good,

What else do you think is not optimally solved in this floor plan (except for the granny flat)? Could you perhaps list the individual points?

Yes, gladly. So the original idea that you have a second staircase in the granny flat going upstairs to 2 rooms contradicts the usual building rules. Because a granny flat of course should not occupy too much valuable living space and that is exactly what the second staircase does in particular. That’s why Katja’s suggestion of having the granny flat on one level is already very sensible, as it provides a barrier-free apartment that is especially suitable for seniors and you get more generous rooms upstairs for your money since you already want to spend quite a lot on the house.

We don’t want to rush anything now, we have already spent quite some time planning (in part even wasted). A few more weeks or less do not really matter anymore.

That’s really good. Then you can also find a nice floor plan.

We don’t want to think about selling yet. But I find what you say sounds quite bad (maybe rightly so), but could you please concretely say what bothers you about the floor plan and if you would redesign it, how you would do it (like in post #56)?

Yes, of course it was expressed a bit drastically, but this is just a well-meaning warning to you. Because what is the target group for a single-family house with a granny flat? The family with grandparents, who preferably live on the ground floor, and a family of four who wants enough space upstairs for a mid six-figure amount without paying for the size of a 5-room apartment at the price of a whole house. If there are already two rooms upstairs, then it should please be built right away as a reasonable semi-detached house, which always has value and is easy to rent out. The halves don’t have to be the same size, but at least so that one semi-detached house has 3 rooms and yours then 5 rooms. That is definitely a classic model, which always holds its value and doesn’t only have a very personal value for you. But designs like Katja’s are quite common and you often find them on the internet. Because a granny flat on the ground floor and the rest of the house as another apartment is often chosen by families. I find Katja’s design quite well done, because 2 semi-detached houses would of course cost you correspondingly more.

As far as I'm concerned, expand the choice now to include the third semifinal design "198 / Yvonne", but then make up your mind, finito, basta! (or do you really want to push it so that the general contractor cancels the contract due to the client’s indecisiveness)?

Of course, nobody has to follow my advice, but the business of contractors is not watching their clients waiting for Godot. Your GC's already white-hot brake pads are about to explode! (and I'm considering whether I should at least say a heartfelt "do whatever you want" and leave your thread, my popcorn bowl is at least nearly empty down to the very last crumb).

Hehe, the elephant is losing patience. I have to disagree there. Nope. There is absolutely no reason to make any decision now that you are not 100% happy with. Sure, everyone is slowly getting fleas and losing hair, but so what? I wouldn't sink my hard-earned money I've toiled for all my life just because someone is not patient enough. So honestly, don’t let the men drive you crazy! It’s your house. Let them jump in circles. Just ignore them. :p

There is absolutely no reason to make any decision now that is not 100% satisfactory.

Pareto did not assume, but proved, that it is disproportionate to insist on the upgrade from 99.75% to 99.99% by butting your head against the wall. It has also been proven that the quality of a series of dice results will no longer increase significantly with the length of the series beyond a certain point. Thus, being addicted to the hope that the next roll will bring three sixes can expect no further "gain" other than fatigue and disappointment. Therefore, without belittling your or any other further drafts and without arbitrariness, I have selected two drafts to recommend as base material for further – but as explained above, not infinitely many! – distillation stages. Namely, on the one hand, the one by Yvonne from post #116ff., because it was created with, in my opinion, more successful consideration of the recently added fundamental slices and the latest reflection on the scarecrow about the brotherly needs; and on the other hand, the one by from post #89 because of the, in my opinion, extremely favorable ratio of quality gain to minimal invasiveness of the changes compared to the opening proposal. Methodically actually inconsistent, as a concession to childish fun, as dawdling before falling asleep still demanding one very last fairy tale, I have "allowed" also to include Yvonne's draft from post #198 in the counting rhyme "decision."

Hehe, the elephant is losing patience.

Correctly, by the way, "dem 11anten". No, the islander does not lose his calm (and Hoffmann dies last). It is just sometime a strain on the patience of the OR nurses when the patient repeatedly begs for yet another fairy tale even on the table. For this reason, anesthetists were invented ;-) So it is by no means about the yawning audience alone, but also about the (not endlessly endured) blocking of the OR team, mind you against the background that further hesitation alone (and also not combined with further protracted attempts, turning over every single stone) will no longer be rewarded by any significant approach to an optimum. The realization that a thousandth-permille utmost satisfaction on earth is unattainable was eventually accepted even by – but in my opinion already agonizingly late. There are "role models" that you "by all means" do not have to top. And I am firmly convinced that the TE will suffer more bitterly from the disappointment over the failure of further efforts than the merely bored audience, which can switch to other threads after all. I really consider it more likely to see being struck by a flash of insight in his racing simulator than the TE here discovering the Amber Room behind the forty-seven-thousandth decimal place of the next draft. Your crafting fun is honorable, but please do not raise false hopes for her!

So much text to say so little. And again: no. The decision is too important to let the nagging of individual men make you nervous. If there is no six-of-a-kind, you can always stop playing. And no, I play the way I want, as long as I'm allowed. But I like you anyway. ;)

The decision is too important

Let's put it this way: it is important to make a decision (once in a while) :)

Let's put it this way: it is important to make a decision (once in a while)

I just nudged via PM to see if she might report on her construction start after only 98% satisfaction ...