Floor plan of a single-family house with basement, 150 sqm, only single-story allowed

One could also consider placing the guest room on the south-east side in the basement with an exterior staircase as a "light well." To my knowledge, this could be within the 3m boundary distance. Then the room for the office would be free and would not need to be so large.

I have one here with a 1/4 turn of the staircase and the front door in the bay window. I personally don’t find it very elegant because it always creates these long corridors that make a house feel uncomfortable. But if the wife insists.

I would point out that this is really a matter of taste. I like both of your suggestions. In the first suggestion, when you enter you first look directly at a wall, but after turning, the beauty of the room unfolds. Both variants have their justification and are implemented similarly in many prefabricated houses. I recommend visiting a prefabricated house park and specifically looking at different entrance situations there.

But if the woman insists.

I have edited it a bit, if it offers tangible advantages she would also enter from the side (by side I mean from the right and not from the street side). Next to the bay window she initially found unusual, but it is fine for her.

The building area is the reddish frame - I guessed 18 x 16. Is that correct? If you push your little house all the way back there, because of the cars, then in my opinion the terrace no longer fits into the building area. Sometimes the building authorities are generous but sometimes not. That is why you should definitely plan (or have planned) the outdoor area.

Yes, 18m wide and 16m deep. The terrace is outside, no problem for us. Garages are also allowed to be built outside the building area.

Check floor area calculation regarding the basement.

Due to the small window area, the basement is definitely not living space.

There was no more feedback from you, @GeraldG?

Regarding the living space in the basement? As I said, that does not count. With the current proposals, we actually find the arrangement with the living room quite awkward. The window perpendicular to the TV causes you to constantly see the reflection on the TV. My wife is bothered that there is no window on the side. She still thinks the kitchen should go there.

With the current proposals, we actually find the arrangement with the living room quite awkward. The window perpendicular to the TV causes you to constantly see the reflection on the TV. My wife is bothered that there is no window on the side. She also thinks the kitchen should be there.

Well, you can just turn the sofa around again and look into the garden. No, seriously, in a modern living room with large windows, you will probably never not have reflections on the TV. I don't exactly understand which window you mean, but isn't the design mirror-image identical to the arrangement in #1 except that there is no window on the side? So it would even be freer from reflections. Apart from that, a roller shutter for darkening - problem solved. Why this arrangement seems better to us is the kitchen. Here you want maximum light for working. That's why you like to take the south side for it. But if it feels wrong for you, then that is also an important reason. The gut feeling also has a say.

With the current proposals, we actually find the arrangement with the living room quite awkward. The window perpendicular to the TV causes constant reflections on the screen. My wife is bothered that there is no window on the side. She still thinks the kitchen should go there.

Why exactly does your wife insist on having the kitchen there, and what exactly is awkward about the living room? Not that I know better, but you need to understand the background to comprehend it. Also regarding the desire for an additional window in the living room—why exactly does she/you feel it is missing? Regardless, the question arises as to what significance/power is given to the TV. Do you really sit in front of the TV as a family during the day? In the evening, it doesn’t really matter where the window is. Does the seating position really have to be oriented toward the TV or rather to the people present? Maybe the TV could be relocated and a pure "living" room made out of it or used as such. I believe that the TV procedure has often become ossified in the imagination, but reality usually looks completely different. Depending on the view in and out and location, a living room can also be a room without very large windows. For example, I was also in various model homes where a horizontal window band was installed above the sofa in the living room and the living room appeared "darker," i.e., calmer, almost like a retreat space for the family. I myself did not build it that way but would not have oriented my living room around the TV either, although I also very much enjoy watching my documentaries, etc. I would not be satisfied with a possible existing basic feeling along the lines of "it belongs there" or "it is better this way," because it often derives from what is known so far or how others have it, but rather clarify exactly why it should be that way for us in order not to block other good layout options for myself.

The reason why this arrangement is better for us is the kitchen. Here you want maximum light for working. That’s why you gladly take the south side for it. But if it feels wrong to you, then that is also an important reason. The gut feeling should have a say too.

Now I have to upload the very first proposal, which was "mutilated" according to our wishes/improvement suggestions (I’ll turn it like you have the house):

I wouldn’t be satisfied just with a possible basic feeling like “that belongs there” or “that is better this way,” because it often comes from what is already known or how others have it, but rather clarify exactly why it should necessarily be that way for us, so as not to rule out other good floor plan options.

That was actually the second of two major points of contention. The first was the orientation of the house and whether the entrance may be from the side, and the second was the exact idea of where the kitchen and the living room should be. I tried to work that out objectively with her and then wrote this here (neighbor on one side, meadow on the other), but the very first statement I got about why it should be that way was “she feels it there.” I didn’t like that either and then kept probing until I got an answer I could process as a man.