Floor plan of a new gable roof house, 145 sqm, 9 x 11.5 m, shortly before building application

Maybe I would shorten the living room wall a bit

I like glass but maybe a bit more wall space here wouldn’t hurt because of space for placing things/design.

The children’s rooms are definitely not too small, I find 15 sqm top. I don’t see the exact window width

I like the walk-in closet less, such a small room with a door… that looks cramped, I would prefer an open solution or assign the space directly to the bedroom; then it wouldn’t need the roof window either. If I estimate correctly, currently 9m of wardrobe is planned in bedroom and walk-in closet?

I can’t quite share the enthusiasm.

If you don’t want to be too far from the street, I would consciously plan a narrower house – but then longer. There are really good examples of that. The room layout then doesn’t correspond as much to the usual standard as the house you are currently planning. Make yourselves smart about whether that would be something for you. I remember a dream house (BR Fernsehen, surely still available in the media library) where a very narrow house was planned on a plot in Munich. If I remember correctly, the house was only 6m wide but very cleverly done. Definitely take a look! On BR’s homepage, you usually find the floor plans of the presented houses as well.

Another possibility would be to plan a narrow building body at the front and widen the house to one side at the back, basically a slight L-shaped footprint.

I will never understand why someone wants to build a run-of-the-mill house that fits a classic rectangular plot but not a specially shaped plot and then wonders why the planning is only so-so and does not really fit.

If I see that correctly, the master bedroom is in the south, but child 1 is in the northwest. I never find that successful. You can swap that. The two slanted doors are relics from the 80s (that was trendy back then!) but here I see no plausible reason for this architectural misstep. The doors are planned at 76cm (bathroom) and 88cm (bedroom), but with a height of 217cm – do you really want that? Those are tiny loopholes. I would always plan 1m for a door. Otherwise, with the height, it looks somehow disproportionate. The dressing room also makes no sense like this. Please note: you are giving yourselves a total of over 21sqm for bedroom and dressing room, but in my opinion the bedroom is too large—you only sleep in there, the dressing room will be tight. Then there is another closet in the bedroom – total misplanning. If the exterior shell should remain as it is, put the bedroom where child 1 is, in front of it the dressing room through which you enter the bedroom. Less sqm for the bedroom, more sqm for the dressing room, and then put all closets in the dressing room.

Why is the garage set so far back? Do you like to shovel snow in winter so much? If the building plan does not contradict it, I would move it forward and rather plan a parking space in front of the house (you have to be 5m away from the street anyway). Are you allowed to park in front of the garage? That would not be approved here – every parking space (garage or parking spot) must be freely accessible. Parking one behind the other is not allowed. Not all communities require that, but you should check that in advance.

Kitchen facing the street: Why? I have always preferred the kitchen near the terrace – that makes more sense to me.

I like it too. It is often recommended here to plan the kitchen next to the terrace, so to swap living room and kitchen here. For the kitchen planning, I gladly refer you to the AI forum. That’s where the kitchen pros are :)

a piano is supposed to stand on the wall section between the dining room and the living room, then a sideboard or something similar between the kitchen and the dining room. But that will probably be revised again.

it is trapezoidal, according to the development plan we have to build back 5 m from the street, so our building window would only be 8.74 m wide. We have now planned 9 m width and therefore are going back a total of 7.76 m from the street. We actually find that too far back, but otherwise we don’t get the floor plan to work.

kitchen and hallway too narrow due to the narrow building window at the front

windows are 1.51 m wide and facing west

storage and laundry room (e.g. vacuum cleaner, laundry should not be collected in the bathroom but in this room), and for clothes that are not needed all the time (ski gear, kids’ clothes to keep) and bed linen.

swapping children's room and bedroom would be an option, but didn’t want a children's room next to the bathroom so the noises wouldn’t disturb.

price estimate according to the construction company: €440,000 without land and without garage (fixed price),

I can’t quite share the enthusiasm.

There are really good examples.

The two slanted doors are relics from the 80s (that was stylish back then!) but here I see no plausible reason for this architectural blunder.

That’s exactly what we wanted to do too, but according to the general contractor it doesn’t work because of the statics.

The windows are 1.51 m wide and face west.

There are sloping ceilings in the dressing room, so you can’t use everything as a complete closet. Also, it should not be a pure dressing room, but also storage and laundry room (e.g. vacuum cleaner, laundry should not be collected in the bathroom but in this room), and for clothes that are not used constantly (ski clothes, children’s clothes to be kept) and bed linen. Since we have very different working hours, we didn’t want a passage to the bedroom, so work clothes will also be stored there.