Floor plan MGH 200QM - Evaluation ideas

The disadvantage would be that the bedroom access is via the shared hallway, so if my kids come home at night after a party, you’d hear them more easily; that was actually the reason to have the access inside the apartment.

Yes, you will probably hear them if they then have a beer in the kitchen afterwards ;)

The garage is also supposed to be used as storage,

… which is equivalent to a change of use. Specifically: a garage cannot be used as a storage room. At least not officially or legally.

Upper floor: I have to analyze the swap of the entrance area and bathroom.

I’ll help:
A) A bathroom has a soil pipe for wastewater and sewage. Where would that be?
B) Grandma lives downstairs and you with the two teens upstairs: is an 8 sqm bathroom enough or better 10 sqm?
Personally, I recommend a bathtub at that age!
I can’t share your concern that the upper floor is too large. The children’s rooms can be somewhat equalized by making the more rectangular room downstairs a bit narrower -> move the partition wall.
Otherwise, I find the upper floor quite good… you can straighten the hallway with the TV wall.
The first third is, in my opinion, somewhat messed up. Here I agree with .
A wardrobe is missing and not significantly present, freezer/utility room is way too small, but there is a lot of wasted circulation space that is neither appropriate for the age nor furniture-friendly, so many corners and recesses are present. All the space that is circular is basically superfluous or lost space.
You are trying, like others, to plan the jack of all trades, but that usually happens at the expense of everyone.
If grandma gets a glass of milk in the evening, she’s standing in her nightgown in front of your guests. A separated staircase house excludes that.
The bedrooms are anything but barrier-free, not to mention the bathrooms.
I like the building style itself. The stairway could be too short… I read 2.70?!
The hallway/entrance is too closed off to be equated with openness ;)
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I don't like enclosed staircases. It feels like an apartment building.

Yes, an open staircase is indeed nicer, but if someone lives upstairs on their own (child and partner), then it’s also annoying for everyone if we always see them coming and going.

Missing wardrobe, too small building services,

I think the wardrobe can still fit in the hallway.

Bedroom only partly senior-friendly, bathroom as well (although worse ones have been presented here)

I have a door of 1m, hallway 1.3m, in front of the bed 1.2m, next to the bed 1m. The bathroom is tight, yes, but not impossible. It probably wouldn’t be enough for a TÜV certificate, okay, but maybe you can explain what doesn’t fit?

Upstairs the chill area is a nice term for rest. Also very enclosed but the bathroom for the kids is a guest bathroom, toilet for the home office, possibly family bathroom for all.
No bathtub in the house.

Yes, “rest” is right, the room is also at the bottom of the priority list upstairs. The bathroom is too small I agree, but I wanted to align the walls with the dining room walls (statics). Possibly I have to further reduce the wall between the bathroom and the chill area (making chill smaller) and ignore statics.

The area in front of the bedroom/kitchen on the ground floor is also just a hallway

Yes, however it is a hallway 2.3m wide and the only place where a closet can still be put against the wall.

Thanks for the input anyway.

Yes, you will probably hear them when they then have a beer in the kitchen afterward ;)

Yeah, they are probably allowed to do that upstairs in their chill room :).

… which is equivalent to a change of use. Specifically: a garage cannot serve as a storage room. At least not officially or legally.

Like 80% of the garages I know..

I'll help:
A) a bathroom has a drain pipe for wastewater and feces. Where would that be?

The idea was a shaft in the dining room, ok it’s even smaller but the beer crates have to go somewhere too.

B) Grandma lives downstairs and you with the two teens upstairs: is an 8sqm bathroom enough or better 10sqm?
Personally, I recommend a bathtub at that age!

It’s an either/or situation. Either the kids live with us, or they have moved out and we can bring in a grandma/grandpa. Both at the same time won’t work (for long).

The first third is somewhat screwed up in my opinion. I agree with there.
Cloakroom is missing or not notably present, freezer/laundry room much too small, but very much wasted circulation space, which is neither age-appropriate nor furnishable, so many corners and recesses are present. Everything that is circular is basically superfluous or lost space.

I don’t deny that, the solution would be to bring the bedroom entrance into the hallway, which I like even less. The hallway is dirty (winter, shoes, etc.), I don’t want to walk barefoot through there, visible from outside is possible, and mentioned kids coming home at night.

Bedrooms are anything but barrier-free, not to mention the bathrooms.

Only the lower floor is supposed to be barrier-free.
I like the building style itself. The staircase could be too short… I read 2.70?!

Hallway/entrance is too closed off to be equated with openness ;)

Well, I somehow need a vestibule.

Here again, briefly, my summary:

The house can only be smaller if we go for the classic layout (living on the ground floor, bathroom and sleeping upstairs), otherwise there is already too little space downstairs (hallway too small, technology room too small, bedroom bathroom actually also too small if 100% barrier-free design is required).

Regarding technology, I need help.
The north wall in the utility room is just under 2.5 m. I need a heat pump (60 cm tower with everything inside, available from Nibe), washing machine and optionally a dryer tower – 60 cm. Cabinet for other technology like photovoltaic inverter, battery (just provision for space), some IT equipment. Electricity/water can be on the west wall. Controlled residential ventilation can be on the ceiling. We dry laundry outside, in bad weather sometimes in the living room or guest room upstairs or something (or the useless hallway :) )
Have I forgotten something very important?
Cleaning closet can still go under the stairs.
I have roughly sketched the ground floor with wardrobe (0.5 x 2) and technology room equipped.
On the upper floor, a bit down along the bathroom wall. Possibly exchanging the bedroom and bathroom would be advantageous for plumbing, the disadvantage would be that my bedroom would be more in the living area of the upstairs occupant and not so quiet anymore (chill or kitchen right next door).

Draw a bed with an interior measurement of 2 meters. Then a slatted frame, like in a hospital bed, can be installed. Sometimes it is faster than you think to need the parts. Then you need assistance with walking aids as well as help from people. It does not have to be forever. At the moment, for example, it can simply be a missing follow-up treatment like with my aunt.

I would plan more for now. Adolescents require more separation than small children. Look, you have a separated staircase. At 1 a.m., the youngsters want pizza and stand in front of your bedroom door. What is the use of the separation? Privacy in a multi-generation house is important, but it is not a multi-family house. The children want birthday parties and barbecues, then they go into the garden and thus your kitchen is used. I myself lived for a long time in a multi-generation house and many friends and acquaintances do so. It is more open, fluid.

I would open the staircase, make the kitchen and dining area the central point. Whether you live there as four, with grandparents or one of the children with a partner upstairs. Separate living spaces, make them separable and from there the access to the bedroom with bathroom.

but someone should live upstairs for themselves (child and partner)

I would plan more for the now.

I agree.
I believe that still too many future situations want to be considered. However, there are a thousand others like that and then the next thousand of them occur. I would pre-plan the basic, highly probable things, the rest will sort itself out.