Floor plan of a 1.5-story house with a captain's gable on nearly 200m²

Regarding the dimensions: We build wooden studs - isn’t the size for bricks irrelevant then?

Oh, wooden studs, I might have overlooked that - yes, then brick dimensions don’t matter :-)

Funny that the term only appears in this forum here :) Do you have a copyright on that?

If you like, I "invented" the word myself and unfortunately have no copyright on it due to "lack of originality" (and such). However, the phenomenon described by the word does by far not only occur in forums. If I received royalties for botched jobs in real life, I would have been a (quite wealthy) retiree for about thirty years :)

The living-dining area is catastrophic to furnish. Somehow everything is open but without flow and connection.

Thanks for the feedback! This is currently how we imagine the furnishing. Actually not that bad. *shrugs*. Maybe you want to elaborate on your concerns?



And for the entrance, we would then construct an access with glass/wood/metal elements, we don’t have a final design yet. Maybe we will only build that once we are in the house and see which "flow" fits best.

I have to agree with the opinion regarding the ground floor. You don’t feel the actual available floor space at any corner (of which there are unfortunately quite a few). Instead, it feels like a 1950s suburban house in terms of the degree of complexity and the perceived space. This is certainly also due to the extravagance of a (mini) office plus a full-fledged guest room (including another desk), which requires a lot of space and contributes to the complexity. Does it have to be that way? The "pantry" (?) in this scenario actually only adds to (at least) my amusement. Didn’t I at some point recommend going to the architect *WITHOUT* any prior preparation? ;)

Go to the architect, and without this scribbling.

If you don't see the drawback on the ground floor and just respond with *shrug*, then you don't seem to be interested in comments. You create an open space that you fill with some kind of structures. It looks more like a labyrinth than structure and planning. You always sit everywhere unprotected with several activity zones directly nearby. But you don't have a clear view because some storage cubes, room dividers, partition elements are standing around. Piano upstairs with dishwasher sound. Sofa lounges in the passage area with views to who knows where and from who knows where, and everything dances around the 1.5 sqm storage block like a Swedish Christmas tree?

Didn’t I at some point recommend going to the architect *WITHOUT* any prior preparation?

I wouldn’t want to swear that it was only once ;-)

The actual available floor space isn’t felt in any corner (of which, unfortunately, there are plenty). [...] regarding the degree of convolution and the perceived space.

That looks more like a labyrinth than structure and planning.

Excess corners are the marks of Cain for too many rooms due to too many wishes per hectare of living space ;-)

That certainly also stems from the extravagance of a (mini) office plus a fully grown guest room (including another desk), which demands enormous space and contributes to the convolution. Does it have to be? The “pantry” (?) in this scenario actually only adds to (at least) my amusement.

You always sit everywhere unprotected with several activity zones directly adjacent.

These are just concrete examples of chance details from which one can read a lack of planning fortune – although the pantry, like a central pillar under the tent’s roof, does have something original – totem, torture stake, maypole – in any case, the whole house dances around it :)

If you don’t see the flaw in the ground floor and just react with *shrug*, then you don’t seem interested in comments.

That’s a strange conclusion.. "If you don’t see your mistakes and ask for help, then you’re not interested in answers" For me, it’s like someone telling me, your outfit looks awful, go change. - what’s wrong? - Everything. If you don’t see that, you probably don’t want help.

Otherwise, I can’t make sense of sweeping universal quantifiers like everywhere, any, elsewhere, everything.

The "pantry" (?) only contributes (at least) to my amusement in this scenario.

That’s great if you can enjoy it, then the post has something good after all.