First of all, thank you very much for your ideas and suggestions! We will especially have to think again about the open-plan area.
Regarding the garage... we have and only need one car and that is not going to change anytime soon. Therefore, we actually had the door to the utility room changed from the top of the plan so that there is room for a shelf here.
The garage is already planned to be as large as possible. The house will be about 8.5 m x 12.5 m in size. So we are already almost at the limit here. Unfortunately, it can’t be much bigger. Originally, a basement was planned, then things could be spread out a bit (office, pantry, utility room, technology in the basement), but this fell victim to the high interest rates :(
Do you have any concrete ideas for the open-plan area? It seems the pantry is mainly the problem here. Would a different kitchen layout open up the open-plan area a bit more?
We would like to have a large working surface and think, for example, that an island of 2.5 m would be too small for us. Unfortunately, we are not fans of wall cabinets either.