Floor plan of a single-family house with a gable roof, 1.5 stories - improvements?

Great. Can you say something more about the property? Or better yet, just include a picture. Important are building limits, setback lines, width, depth, shape, sunny side, etc.

Okay, the floor plan, we and the general contractor have now really taken a beating. [...] The only requirement for us is that the utility room is next to the kitchen and the kitchen adjoins the living/dining area.

Not quite: namely also the garage to the utility room. I would first look for the causal connection to the "praise" for the floor plan there. Besides, Lower Saxony doesn’t necessarily mean Frisian gables. It is actually not meant to show that you can count to three, but to give the entrance a gable despite the house axis being parallel to the street.

What is so bad about the layout?

It’s not the layout that’s bad – but the idea to try a changed layout on the same floor plan. A new one should be made. No matter how similar it will be afterwards – it is nevertheless beneficial not to drag the previous one along into further evolution.

I would be interested in a floor plan from you with your suggestions. Do you have something for us?

Maybe you yourselves:

The design was created according to our specifications (hand-drawn by us).

Show the drawing, no matter how messy. I would like to see how faithfully it was implemented. I actually doubt the stated procedure. Instead, I rather think the planner imposed his ancient plan on you in a modern adaptation as the implementation of your drawing.

The planning from him was free and the first draft.

More likely in vain, and as said, I rather think: even the first draft of his grandfather – albeit in the approximately sixty-year-old original presumably with a basement.

...I rather think: even the first draft by his grandfather - although probably with a basement in the approximately sixty-year-old original.

You should know.

Show the drawing, no matter how messy. I would like to see for myself how faithfully it was adopted. I actually doubt the mentioned procedure. Rather, I think the planner sold you his outdated plan in a modern adaptation as the implementation of your drawing.

I don't understand why I should lie to you?! You can be sure that I would admit it if something was sold to us.

We also submitted the current plan to the previous general contractor. He responded well in the discussion but then sent us plans from the internet that had nothing to do with our plan. We have not contacted him since.

Maybe we need to revisit that after the last 6 pages.

I personally still tend to optimize the existing floor plan. The arrangement of the rooms is optimal for us (except for the bathroom and study downstairs).

Maybe move the gable to the back, then add another room in the upper middle as already indicated to make use of the gable. This would create more space downstairs for the dining area. The study downstairs can be removed and the bathroom shifted to the left, with a small recess for a cloakroom. The utility room would remain a passage room (which we find sensible). The kitchen should no longer function as a passage room. So the utility room must lead to the hallway.

And don't worry 11ant. Before you slap your forehead: We will also look into complete alternatives.

show me the Laaahand...

I personally still tend to optimize the existing floor plan.

Floor plan and building structure cannot be viewed so easily separately. And the building structure changes if you separate the garage. However, without a site plan, it is not productive to discuss where it would then be placed. We still do not even know which exterior dimensions still have how much "play."

Maybe the gable to the back, at the top in the middle, as already indicated another room to use the gable. This leaves more space for the dining area downstairs. The study can be omitted downstairs and the bathroom moved to the left

The bathroom downstairs: who showers there, isn’t just a toilet sufficient? I would first distribute the rooms and then plan optical elements, not the other way around, first declare the "third gable must be" motto and then see what you can use it for sensibly.