Floor plan, not a specific single-family house, approximately 200m² with 2 apartments

The room program should be created first before making a 3D drawing. Your views cause eye cancer. Usually, one should orient the property to the north and then the floor plans as well. Being able to operate a 3D program should not tempt you to plan a house yourself.

Just some random points.

Keep in mind that you usually plan with shell dimensions. A 1m wide toilet room becomes quite tight when something still needs to be deducted.

Regarding the kitchen: look at where light is currently coming into the room. I also have the feeling that our terraced house kitchen could be brighter and less cramped. Don’t you cook much?

You currently often push the doors completely into the corner. See if you want to leave enough space behind them for a cupboard.

Have you ever looked into sliding doors somewhere? Proper sliding doors usually require just as much space on the side, because that’s where the door disappears. Alternatively, you have folding doors. The question is whether that is really so nice and practical where you are currently planning everything. It seems to me that the sliding door is your cure-all for flexibility and simply "tight corners." I would put a question mark on that.

In the bedroom, I don’t quite understand how you actually imagine it. Sliding door between two single beds, and if you feel like cuddling, you leave it open and push the beds together? Or am I misunderstanding the idea? I think practically there will be a standard anyway: either they are always open or always closed if you basically prefer a separate sleeping situation. Personally, I would plan a completely normal shared bedroom and put a pull-out sofa or similar as a fallback option in one of the offices.

Instead of planning the perfect plan for all life phases, it might be more sensible to create a good plan for the next 10 years.

The room program should be created first before making a 3D drawing. Your views cause eye cancer.

As a rule, the property should be oriented to the north and then the floor plans accordingly.

Being able to operate a 3D program should not tempt you to plan a house yourself.

I see it completely differently, a 3D program is used to illustrate your own ideas to others. And this is exactly where mistakes can be corrected in advance. It is also clear that in the end a more concrete planning has to be carried out with a suitable program and an architect has to approve it. But when it comes to the rough room layout, I do not see this as necessary. It is about what makes (no) sense and what is not feasible like that.

No idea what you mean by your orientation, I chose the cardinal directions so that the terrace is on the south side, just like the solar collectors. The street can theoretically be both in the north (running west to east) and in the east (running north to south). As described before, I am well aware that regulations must then still be observed for a property here.

PS: I have no understanding for remarks like "eye cancer."

Well, there are a few points where it is advisable to get informed first:

- Garages can usually start at the property boundary, but the use of the area on the garage must comply with the 3m distance rule ... so a fence or something similar, so that the 3m to the neighboring property cannot be crossed.

- Stairs ... there is an overview of stair layouts with some minimum dimensions at

- Utility rooms should always be planned facing the street or so that other building parts do not build over the entire supply line. This should at least be avoided.

- Hallways, yes, maybe they should be space-saving, but they should also be planned so that larger items can get around corners there and so that a certain friendliness of the house is given.

- Children's bathroom .. just a toilet or what? Where should the children shower? And generally, for bathrooms you should also plan for mounting walls etc. for WC wastewater and also consider the floor below.

- Kitchen .. also take some time to plan here. It is always practical to have access from the KITCHEN to a garden/grill area.

- Regarding stair and room layout on the upper floor, I do not see how an apartment can be separated there with its own entrance in a useful way. A door directly at the first stair step is rather dangerous.

- Closets etc. .. it is unpleasant to enter houses or rooms and immediately next to the entry direction there is a tall closet (entry door for you). That takes away openness.

- Closets ... rooms should be planned as far as possible so that doors do not end up in the corners of the rooms. About 70 cm clearance from the wall is nicer; then a complete row of closets fits on the wall behind the door (see your upper floor rooms), otherwise you often walk right into such a tall closet wall again.

- so ... go study floor plans, follow the threads here and learn from them ;)

hm.., well, I’m not going to explain the basics of designing, including the meaning and understanding of building codes, to someone who thinks they can design houses. This is also the planning thread, where such knowledge should be assumed. A floor plan that has to be explained to someone involved in designing is usually not functional. I find your explanations of a daily routine or behavior somewhat strange: for example, good planning is when every resident can reach the main toilet quickly without practically having to have a “toilet placed in the room.” A bedroom is legally a living space and is therefore subject to rules, even if you don’t see it that way. A hallway is an important element in a house to connect different areas. Even if you don’t see it that way, you can plan a room to be bright and functional, with proper wall proportions, arrange windows so that even the back corner receives some daylight, run wiring sensibly from the upper floor to the ground floor, separate certain areas without using angled walls, avoid door collisions, and ensure sliding doors can function mechanically. Playing around is helpful and good, but please don’t try to present ignorance or childish play as functional and suitable for everyday use. Approach things realistically and, above all, reflectively… ideally just do some self-study on designing during the property search…

When separating the bedroom (as well as the toilet in the children's rooms – I will address this later), I am not sure myself whether this makes sense or not. My basic idea here is to wake the partner less, whether someone gets up earlier, is sick, or only one might be woken up by the baby monitor.

Just because you plan a sliding door between two beds doesn’t mean it will disturb the other any less than without it. The sliding door doesn’t block any sound.

What added value do you expect from a children's bathroom without a shower?

I also find it strange that a dressing room is planned to be larger than a children's room. Of course, one can argue that 12 sqm is enough because it was sufficient for you. But in a new building with so many square meters, more should really be possible. Or do all your friends also build like this?

In my opinion, 600k will not be enough for the project either.