Floor plan of a single-family house for 4 people with problems on the ground floor

Sketches show more creativity than the ramblings of the architect. You have a huge budget and then something like this comes out. I would change the architect. Or at least start from scratch again.

I ask you not to drag professions through the mud by mentioning them in this forum. They are personalized for insiders here.

Nobody is dragging professions through the mud here, what actually belongs to Kerstin is not quite clear to me, the list of those more gifted than the architect working here is by far not complete either. By the way, I am actually a technical management consultant, former window manufacturer is not a profession ;-) I do housing construction planning with over forty years of experience, but "formally training-wise" with the status of "amateur". When I see so much carelessness in the working style of a fully graduated architect, then I want to (mind you, as a Protestant!) light a candle and shout "Maria, help!"

I would be interested to know why the kitchen absolutely has to face the street? Just because you want to watch Mrs. Müller walk past the fence? In my opinion, that is a disadvantage in the planning. The terrace is in the west, and you want to run across the living room every time with coffee and cream? Why? The outdoor kitchens might have a grill and plates + glasses, but there is no food there. Since this was implemented in both designs, it seems to be enormously important. I could understand it more with the office; if you have to receive a client, you don’t want them sitting right on my terrace. I also found it confusing that in the first draft you wanted to reduce the dining area and use the space for the living room. I find the dining area rather cramped and the living room already spacious. I can’t quite understand the horror of now. Yes, maybe it could be done a bit more elegantly and for an architect it’s rather poor. But we weren’t there when the wish list was defined. You have a great property and a nice budget. That gives you many options. But I would recommend orienting your planning more toward the garden. It is in the west and that is where life will take place. Not on the street.

I would be interested to know why the kitchen absolutely has to face the street? Just because you want to watch Mrs. Müller walk past the fence? [...] You want to run across the living room every time with coffee and cream? [...] I can’t quite understand @11ant’s horror now. Yes, maybe it could be a bit more elegant and for an architect it’s rather poor. But we weren’t there when the wishlist was defined.

The Zalando man is tracked by the modern shoe buyer without a kitchen window via parcel tracking, and Dr. Beckmann will get the cream out of the Persian rug again. I did not criticize elegance, but the glaring deficiencies in this architect’s work lie in the field of artisanal designing: creation and qualification of the room program, mid-level essentials like traffic relations including passages, or quite simply that the hub is not located in the periphery. For all I care, a client can put two hooked noses and a sail ear at the top of the wish list for the shape of the building mass; thanks to my commercial background, I only point to the living-quality-gain-to-space-consumption ratio, but for such an “all you find beautiful” you can also employ the draftsman of the general contractor, no architect is needed for that. And if the OP already anxiously asks whether they have gone down the wrong path, I do not refuse an honest confirmation. The new hallway planning leads to a visually skewed, twisted room axis. If a builder then reflects on themselves and realizes, thanks to the gift of aesthetic blindness, that it does not cause pain, okay, that’s why we live in a free country. I only point out that, in my experience, the 3D imagination ability of today’s young builders is degenerated, and in the status alea iacta then a feeling of “I will have what is not wanted” sets in.