Floor plan of a single-family house without basement/bedroom and bathroom on the ground floor

The ground floor is neither age-appropriate nor handicap accessible.

Wardrobe. You can create a lot of storage space under the stairs. However, I find it unfortunate if the wardrobe comes after the stair landing and the toilet.

The staircase doesn’t work. It’s too short for a straight staircase and lacks a tread, too narrow for a spiral one.

The utility room for house technology and laundry is very small. Remove 1 door so you get more usable space. What is supposed to fit in a storage room with 87 cm raw construction measure? A crate of beer is 400x300 mm. Ivar is 300 or 500 mm deep. The room must be accessible with full hands. In addition, there are 2 doors that take up a lot of usable space.

The kitchen is too narrow at 360 cm for an island. Even with the mini island the walking paths are too narrow. Cooking there is more than impractical.

Dining
Do you really have such a narrow table? Draw the table with occupied chairs. How should the drainage of the bathroom upstairs be done here? The fireplace seating distance has already been mentioned. The terrace belongs to the kitchen for short paths.

Bedroom:
Measure your bed with the frame. Ours is almost 220 cm long. Then the remaining 50-60 cm would be too little. Does a bedside bed or baby cot fit in?

The bathroom is okay for healthy people but not suitable for elderly or handicapped people.

Children’s room is far too dark.
Bathroom drainage
Upstairs you notice that the floor area is too large. Too much upstairs and too little downstairs. Just because it might sometimes be... And then there are solutions. I wouldn’t accept any restrictions.

Do you really want to carry the laundry through the kitchen?

Okay, I can already see that we are not going to get anywhere. I also definitely do not want to do without the bedroom and bathroom downstairs. Rather, I am willing to enlarge them if space and budget allow.

I would like to thank you for the many pieces of advice. Especially the tip that the stove is out of place by the sofa was great. Thanks for that.

I would say we wait for the summer holidays until things become concrete, and then we can continue this here.

A small note: It's funny that everyone who knows us thinks the house reflects us and our way of life well. Of course, there was also criticism (uncensored from parents or parents-in-law), but on a different level.

In this sense: See you later!

I had a cesarean section 2 years ago, my husband at that time had a broken leg with several complications. So the situation in our attic apartment was hardly ideal.

The ground floor, especially the bedroom, bathroom, and access to the utility room, is not suitable for your scenarios. You bump into the wardrobes in the bedroom if the bed is really longer than the 2-meter mattress and stands 5 cm away from the wall.
The bathtub is difficult to climb into in one, and in the other, there are complicated paths through the bedroom past the bed, just to get something from the cupboard or to use the toilet. But one is missing the toilet?
The pantry is only a walk-through room, and for the utility room, which you have to enter several times a day with a ladder, laundry, or other stuff, two doors have to be opened.

We based the stairs on the step height and steps of our current stairs and looked at some posts on the internet about it. My husband then calculated it – he is actually quite good at that. I didn’t know it was too short. Thanks for the info!

In a pinned post, the dimensions of the stairs (minimum measurements) are listed.

So we consider it a solitaire but have not decided how high it should be. According to the preliminary offer, the knee wall is only 70 cm high.

You don’t need a (higher) knee wall; you need more space downstairs, preferably through an extension that is not covered on top.

I also definitely do not want to give up the bedroom and bathroom downstairs. I am rather willing, if space and budget allow, to enlarge them.

You don’t have to either. The wishes are not uncommon.

Small remark: It’s funny that everyone who knows us says the house reflects us and our lifestyle well.

That might also be hidden criticism
Anyway: there are people here, builders, including former ones, who have dealt very much and very often with their own houses and those of others. Completely neutral.
If something doesn’t work or is way too tight, it is said here. And if it is almost everyone, then they either have their own experience or know it for various reasons.
No one wants to harm you, only to help. That’s why you are here, right?

Funny is that you can’t get into the bathroom downstairs with a crutch. No one means you any harm. These are weak points. On one side too much space, on the other too little. A single-story extension on the ground floor is a solution. Unfortunately not yet seen in the Swedish house.

Unfortunately not yet seen in the Swedish house.

I have: the living room or dining room was added as an enclosed conservatory, that is, with windows all around, so that there was space for a bedroom on the main floor area.

Ok that certainly looks good. Consciously not seen yet