Floor plan of a single-family house, feedback

It wasn't as if the construction company had a bad reputation from the robber. It was/is just that it is a general contractor who can do standard. But the robber didn't want standard anywhere, rather everywhere a bit more special features. The general contractor said everywhere it was possible and had dollar signs in their eyes. The wishes overwhelmed the subs. The robber should have gone to the architect and built with individual contracts.

Thank you. I've opened the thread; whenever I have a few minutes of downtime, I can read a little. Proud house he's planning there. The graphics look familiar in terms of format, so same program – but yay, he built solid. I build prefab houses, so definitely a different business. Phew.

I'll try to say something about the last drafts (p. 7 for the ground floor, as far as I found it): My favorite question (from my own experience in a rental apartment) is always about the walking routes. Are the walking routes in a floor plan practical? Or will they become annoying at some point?

Compared to the first draft (p. 1), I already find it good that these two doors standing close together (kitchen/dining area) are gone.

However: One of the most frequent routes will be from the living/dining area to the toilet on the ground floor. That is relatively far. With guests who haven't been there often yet, you can already expect that they might end up in the utility room or the storage room under the stairs. Yes, I also read this requirement "not adjacent to the living room," but... I don't know if you are doing yourself a favor with that requirement.

If you don't want to change the upper floor and don't want to unnecessarily complicate the pipework (i.e., don't want to move the utility room), there are hardly any good solutions. Possibly, one could (it may be that there is not enough space for this) place the ground floor WC between the utility room and the kitchen. If that fits, it would be the best solution in terms of walking routes: closest door to the living area, straight line to the guest room. No circulation pipe necessary (all wet rooms are adjacent to the utility room). Also easily accessible if you come in from outside with urgent washing needs, without the ground floor WC being directly in the dirty area. (By the way, the stairs are located in the dirty area—there are many who rather don’t like that.)

But it may be that there is not enough space for that. Then, in terms of walking routes, the suggestion from ypg on page 5 would still be more straightforward (straight walking route once you are in the hallway).

If that also doesn’t work because it has been decided "WC not adjacent to living room," then I would puzzle with the rooms down there again and see how to get a good walking route. For most people I know, the WC on the ground floor is actually used more often than the WCs upstairs.

Who do you want to build with? There are quite a few in the region

One of the most common routes will be from the living/dining area to the toilet on the ground floor. That is relatively far. With guests who haven’t been here that often, you can already expect them to end up in the utility room or the storage room under the stairs.

Ha, then they can just clean up the rooms right away.

Moving the toilet would mean adjusting the size of the utility room/kitchen. The guest room would get bigger (or there would be more storage space). I’ll pass on the suggestion, let’s see what the boss thinks, thanks!

Who do you want to build with? There are quite a few in the region

The prefabricated house builder from Frankenberg is the unfortunate one who has to struggle with us.

One of the most common routes will be from the living/dining area to the toilet on the ground floor. It is relatively far. With guests who haven't been here often, you can already expect that they will end up in the utility room or in the storage room under the stairs.

I don't actually believe that this is the most common route.
I also find it nice when a toilet is located somewhat "off to the side." Ultimately, a guest always only sees one door and never knows, regardless of any kind of planning, where the toilet is, because they only ever see one door.
In our previous house, we simply put a nice little sign on the toilet door, a funny dwarf on the loo; when guests come, I usually ask about the toilet and since you don't have strangers visiting all the time but mostly repeat visitors, the "problem" quickly takes care of itself.

Here, too, it shows the respective individuality, and depending on what is important to oneself, one should implement it; I see no general guidelines in either direction.

One of the most common routes will be from the living/dining area to the toilet on the ground floor. That is relatively far.

What's long about that? You mean from the south wing to the east wing? I'll put it this way: it's a compact house, there are hardly any long routes. The WC being tucked away isn't really wrong. However, one might also consider swapping the guest/WC area with the technical room.. that would be an option!