Floor plan of a single-family house as a wooden house on a ground slab with carport

Hello everyone,

we are in the final stages of our house planning. Four of us will live in this house - two adults and two children; possibly a dog will move in someday.
We already have rough offers for the house, and it is within our budget. But that is not what this is about. What would help us is a critical external perspective: how functional is the floor plan really? Do the room sizes fit - also for old age? Have we overlooked anything? What could be improved? The classic questions, basically.

The house with carport will be built as a wooden house on a slab foundation, with an attic above two full floors serving as a cellar substitute.
The drawings are oriented to the north, so the street is to the south. There is no development plan, but with the gable roof, we fit seamlessly into the surrounding buildings.

The room layout is as we wish - two children's rooms, an office downstairs, a second office niche upstairs, a utility room upstairs, family bathroom.

Thank you very much for your help!

It's a pity that you cut off most of the dimension lines.

Please set again with all measurements and fill out the questionnaire

I like it, even the pantry makes sense here because the room wouldn’t really be usable otherwise. You want the bench seating in the dining area like that? It’s extremely impractical with several guests/people because someone always wants to get out. And you’ll only be able to use the TV with the shutters down, between two floor-to-ceiling windows facing west. But otherwise... you can’t use the house for old age anyway, the bathrooms, hallways, etc. are too small for that. You can get into the two toilet niches alone easily, but if someone has to help, it’s way too tight, especially on the ground floor. Look at toilets for disabled people, then you’ll roughly know how much space you need just for the toilet and sink, especially around them.

I also really like the design. In old age, a stairlift might be needed and the bathrooms upstairs could be combined. The TV position is great, when watching TV, having the blinds down (at least one) - definitely better than sitting with your back to the window in the living area. Having the dressing room as a passage is correct if you think about the sequence sleep-dress-leave. If you think about sleep-child-need me-leave, it is far. I would find a T-solution more practical. 1.2m between the wardrobes would be clearly too little for me, then better none. It’s nice that storage space and room at the entrance are considered. The ground floor WC makes sense directly next to the guest room in this layout. I would install a high strip of light at least on the south side, preferably in both directions above the corner bench in the dining area. If the children's rooms extend into the pitched roof, a sleeping loft could work well later. I would design the other roof part as an attic.

I like many things here. (As far as estimating without dimension lines - those would have really been helpful.)

There are only about three things I would think about. (Whether it really suits someone or not.)
1. The patio door in the kitchen. Yes, the idea is probably to bring groceries directly in there into the kitchen/pantry (by the way, I really like hiding the pantry under the stairs!). But: One car parks next to the apartment door, the other near the other patio door. I would forgo the door and instead build more kitchen. Window yes, door no.

2. There are very many patio doors / floor-to-ceiling elements in the living-dining area. I would try to furnish everything as one would like to have it later. If everything fits, great. But if wall space should be lacking, I would reconsider.

3. For the shower on the ground floor, I would use a shower tray, not tiled. Tiled showers require more maintenance. More cleaning. If you like it, fine, then upstairs in the upper floor. But in the guest bathroom, which is used less often, I would choose the easier-to-maintain option.