Floor plan of a single-family house on the south slope, upper floor renovation can wait

@WildThink: That's "Beauti...". Didn't your architect do a height survey beforehand? We even always had the terrain included in the views, both the existing and the planned... You really have to be careful. We also had to retain the neighbor to the right with huge L-shaped stones, and at the back a small concrete strip still has to be poured along the entire length of the property. But we knew that from the start. Honestly, I don't understand how this can happen...

@Aabygale: Yes, that's certainly a matter of perspective. Although we actually don't have living spaces in the basement. Really just a large entrance downstairs and then living on the ground floor and bedrooms in the attic. It must be something different then.

Before I put the pantry and the dryer together, I would possibly rather put the washing machine and dryer into a niche in the bathroom. (You can nicely separate that) Or just not dry the laundry in the room where food is.

But I agree with YPG that one big room is nicer than two small ones!

But sometimes you also have to move away from "this room absolutely has to be on this level".... We also rearranged and first moved the office to the basement (with normal daylight window) because the large kitchen with dining area was more important to us after all.

Planning is really not easy! I feel for you! By now I am directly glad that we have that behind us. Even though enough other problems/decisions are still ahead of us

I sent you a PM... It's really a "nice" story....

Hello everyone,

thanks again for your input. We have now sat down ourselves and drawn something. Of course, without wall thicknesses, which makes quite a difference in the small rooms. But more so just from a feeling (doors, windows – all not yet thought through).
In the basement, we were inspired by milkie and already find the solution worlds better than the architect’s.

A few thoughts on our plans:

[*]It is important to us that all the rooms we have drawn on the ground floor are there (including the utility room).
[*]Also, we would prefer the garage on the east side, so that the children’s rooms still get sun from the west in the afternoon and evening. To be able to use the garage as a roof terrace, we would make a balcony as a transition to the kitchen.
[*]In our design, the garage is set about 2 m in front of the house to allow a passageway to the main entrance. A door should still be added into the garage.
[*]The small terrace from the living room facing north – to also include the garden behind the house a bit more.
[*]To pull everything as far forward as possible, we would place the parking spaces next to, rather than in front of, the garage.

[*]Downstairs, the bathroom should also get some natural light, therefore southeast.
[*]The office can be on the side, as long as it is possible to create a light well or somehow excavate a bit for daylight.
[*]It would be nice if we could also have the WC separated from the bathroom downstairs.

I’m still a bit skeptical about the “corner” in the kitchen and bathroom – whether that is awkward, or possibly even stylish, individual, and not obstructive in terms of furnishing. But to discuss that, that’s what we are here for.

What I don't like at all is the location of the bedroom in relation to the bathroom on the ground floor ... you always have to walk past the front door when you want to go to the bathroom in the morning. It makes more sense to combine the pantry and utility room and move the bathroom to the bedroom side.

And whether the terrace over the garage, the [Überbauung] there, and the balcony in front of the kitchen can actually work, unfortunately, cannot be judged at all. If the garage is located at the boundary, there will probably be a lot of restrictions.

Therefore, I can only recommend coordinating and developing the further planning with the architect.

The bathroom situation would bother me both upstairs and downstairs. The rooms should be closer to the bedrooms and not by the front door.