Floor plan of L-shaped single-family house with double garage - Your opinion

A friendly "Servus" from Bavaria!

I have now created a first draft of our single-family house for the building preliminary notification and would like your opinion on it!

Notes:

[*]The arrangement of the doors and windows is not final.
[*]The dashed line in the kitchen/dining area is only for division.
[*]The suggested divider in the living area is intended to become a panoramic fireplace later (for coziness).

While we're considering it, the staircase is also a question. Both the running direction shown in the floor plan and a version rotated 180 degrees have their advantages. What do you think?
I hope something can be recognized on the attached screenshots...

Many thanks and regards,
Stefan H.

The kitchen area is too small, you can hardly fit any cabinets in there.

I feel sorry for your children ... 12 sqm per child, which in my opinion is difficult to furnish. Bed, wardrobe, desk. Can you fit that sensibly into the children's rooms? Aside from the fact that there is hardly any space left for anything else.

At least the master bedroom is as big as the two children's rooms combined + another walk-in closet the size of a children's room. The children will be happy. Who probably spends more time in their room: children or parents?

Thank you very much for your reply!

The kitchen/pantry and dining area together are 36 m². The kitchen here will only consist of a row of cabinets on the north wall + a cooking island on the opposite side. The pantry can be moved however you like since it is not a load-bearing wall; I hope to learn more about that from the kitchen installer. Nevertheless, I think 36 m² is sufficient, or what size do you suggest?

The point about the children's rooms is a great tip – I will completely switch that around and place the bedroom + dressing room (my wife's pet project) on the west side and the two children's rooms on the south/east side. Then, mathematically, each children's room should be almost 18 m². By the way, I also had "only" a 3x4 meter room as a child, and that was enough for a bed, wardrobe, sofa, and desk!

50 sqm for the cars and 22 sqm for the kids... you just have to set priorities

Seriously, the kids' rooms are a guarantee to get the brats out of the house soon. There's not even room to put a 1.40 m bed there. A wardrobe and desk will be difficult too.

It's nice when the kids stand on their own feet early :-P - Seriously... as already written in the previous post, I will swap the bedroom with the kids' rooms. This way, the bedroom with dressing room will be 24 sqm and the kids' rooms will each be 18 sqm with a floor plan of 3x6 meters (a total of 36 sqm). Additionally, for a maximum of 2 kids, it is planned to use the room referred to as the "guest room" on the upper floor as a playroom. The office on the ground floor will then be the guest room.

Regarding the garage, we initially planned a smaller one as well. However, we need the additional space as storage, which will be implemented with a closed cabinet system. I know some friends who built a garage that was too small and now complain after completion... better a bit more space especially in width to comfortably get in and out of the car, load and unload, etc.

Does the house have to be L-shaped? I don't see any really good approaches to solve the problems that way.

The L-shape is fixed - this is a wish of both of us and there is nothing to change about that. Furthermore, the "problems" are solved by the swap.
We want to use the free space in between in the summer as an "extended" living area with appropriate sun protection. So you can go from the dining room to the hallway or the living room and vice versa. Also, we are thus "protected" from the street.

The kitchen would be too small for me as well. A matter of taste. Unfortunately, I can't contribute anything constructive otherwise ;I

As already mentioned above, the room is 6x6 m, so 36 sqm. You can do something with that if you want to accommodate kitchen / pantry / dining room, right? How big is the area in your case?

For me, the kitchen was only about the arrangement of the furniture. But if you plan that in advance with the kitchen builder, then that's fine.

Hello, personally I would be very bothered by the small room layout. The house itself is not small, but due to the separate living and dining rooms and the small doors, it later feels like an "old building". A spacious feeling does not develop there! You first walk through a relatively huge hallway, then open a narrow door and stand in a barely larger living room, I would at least completely remove the wall to the hallway to visually enlarge the room. Such a panoramic fireplace no longer fits there, you turn it on and start to sweat , the heat remains exclusively in this room and turns it into a sauna. Have you already visited show homes, there you can get a relatively good idea of the size of the individual rooms. How old are your children? Best regards Sabine