Floor plan of a single-family house with a basement

Hello to the house building forum,

we have now revised our planning and incorporated some suggestions, which have been changed in the current draft sketches.
What do you think of the adjusted design, what do you consider good and where is there potential for improvement from the experts' point of view?

Many thanks in advance for your answers!

Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: 510 sqm
Slope: no
GRZ: 0.3
GFZ: 0.6
Building window, building line and boundary: 3m distance to street boundary
Edge development: No, in the new development area with 3 neighboring houses
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 1.5 (according to the development plan definition, however, 2 full floors due to the correspondingly high knee wall)
Roof type: gable roof
Style: classic, modern
Orientation: main entrance: N, garden: S
Maximum heights/limits: ridge height 9.75m
Further requirements: dormer may not exceed 1/3 of the building length

Owners’ requirements
Style, roof type, building type: classic, modern, gable roof, single-family house
Cellar: yes
Number of people, age: 4 (37, 38, 2.5)
Room requirements on ground floor and upper floor
Office: family use or home office? family use, home office occasionally
Guest stays per year: 10-15 days (in converted office/guest room in the basement)
Open or closed architecture: (partly) closed kitchen
Conservative or modern construction: partly, partly
Open kitchen, kitchen island: no
Number of dining seats: 6-8 (in dining room)
Fireplace: yes
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: yes
Vegetable garden, greenhouse: no

House design
Who designed the plan: architect, own ideas
Preferred heating technology: gas condensing boiler + solar + controlled residential ventilation

What do you particularly like?
Layout of the living and dining room, “parents’ area” on the upper floor in the east
Chimney flue was manually moved in the sketches.

What don’t you like? Why?

[*]The kitchen will still change. Currently, due to the square area, there is a lot of unused space inside the kitchen. We are still thinking about this. Possibly, we will plan a G-shaped kitchen. We will probably forego the corner bench and thus put the passage to the dining room in the middle (and possibly install a double-wing sliding door). However, we are not entirely sure yet. We would like to have a small seating area in the kitchen (e.g., for a quick breakfast). Does anyone have an idea regarding the kitchen?

[*]The children's bathroom on the upper floor is quite narrow. We would like it to be a bit wider, but that is not possible because of the gable width, which must not exceed 1/3 of the building length. Is it possible here in the children’s bathroom, without disproportionate effort, to place the toilet diagonally in the corner of the room so that there is no row of toilet, washbasin and shower on the right side of the plan?

[*]In the bedroom, the distance from the end of the bed to the wall leading to the dressing room is a bit too narrow for us. Possibly, we want to reduce the depth of the dressing room by 10 cm, also in the parents’ bathroom, so that we gain about 20 cm here.

Thanks in advance for your comments/suggestions!
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Here EG and OG

House Design
Who is responsible for the planning: Architect, own ideas

Architect? – Civil engineer. Ideas: I don’t see any – or is moving the chimney flue already an "idea"?

The plans seem to me to be cobbled together without inspiration. The house can’t decide: on the entrance side the projecting cross-gable has a flat roof, on the garden side there is a gable. That’s like spending half a vacation at the sea and the other half in the mountains. The basement seems to have been added onto a basement-free initial design and "leaves behind" a "Room 1" on the ground floor that is booked but not picked up. The children’s bathroom right next to the parents’ bathroom can join in this song. If the parents’ bathroom had access from the bedroom, first of all both would make more sense and secondly the children’s bathroom could then be extended in front of the current parents’ bathroom door. Anyone getting out of the bathtub in this bathroom must be a head shorter than anyone showering. I interpret the room divider between kitchen and dining room by the wall thickness as a load-bearing wall – but then the beam/ lintel lacks the living room side support both structurally and visually. The narrower dining room window looks shifted according to the dimension line – but not consistently up to the table axis (?)

The creative quality of this design gives me déjà vu from a resistance-to-advice thread started two months ago: – by the way also with a guest room in the basement; and your "ground floor Room 1" was the pantry there. Would you have such a nice chicken ladder without knee walls? ;-)

I think the draft is quite good now, considering what you had before. The rooms are clearly structured and functional. I won't comment on the basement because I have no connection to the basement. I also think the bathroom is good. I also find the children's bathroom great. In my opinion, one should avoid quirky angled features especially in the bathroom. Straight arrangements make a bathroom look elegant - an angled toilet does not. Perhaps as an alternative, a kitchen island could be considered in the kitchen, with a countertop mounted for a small meal? Regards

I also think that you should completely reconsider the upper floor, for example, how about the dressing room in the [Zwerchgiebel]? I would also spatially separate the two bathrooms.

I agree with 11ant regarding "Raum1"; we also planned a basement later, and then the ground floor becomes problematic where the utility room and guest WC were previously planned. This also needs to be reconsidered.