Floor plan - opinions welcome

Children are not planned?

Doesn't look like it.

Good morning!

So many answers already; great!

Just quickly:

[*]Really bad ... the kitchen windows .. only 50 cm high, it will look like you are standing in the basement in the kitchen
[*]Wardrobe/shoes/handbags/hats/scarves etc. in the entrance area .. where should those go?

[*]Why no small utility room on the upper floor? With washing machine/dryer etc?
[*]Sleeping facing south? I would rather put it under the north roof
[*]270 cm closet ... but a huge room for a bed
[*]a realistic furnishing in the living area is missing. For example, the sofa has leg lengths of 215*150 cm. The dining table is drawn at 135x82 cm.

[*]We have seen the kitchen window thing at friends’ place.
They also have wall cabinets hanging above there.
We actually found that quite a good idea.
[*]The wardrobe caught our attention as well. It definitely needs to be bigger.
[*]The utility room on the upper floor is a great idea! Then we also don’t need a laundry chute.
[*]Right: The dressing room is too small and the bedroom too big. Move the wall accordingly.
[*]Do you notice a difference under a 24cm insulated roof without windows between north and south?
[*]Thanks for the tip about the furniture. I wouldn’t have noticed that.

Will the floors be split later into two residential units?
Otherwise, I would still swap the living room and kitchen so that you can comfortably go out onto the terrace from there. The living room doesn’t need an exit.
Still separate off the toilet and consider the wardrobe.
I currently don’t believe in splitting into 2 residential units, so why this sealing off of the stairs? I always find it so strange to quickly do something in the bathroom in the evening with socks on, then go back comfortably to the sofa. Also, for the children, the upper floor is too separate because of this. Is that so thought through and intended?

[*]Splitting into 2 residential units is not planned.
[*]I haven’t really understood the kitchen thing yet. That would actually be totally in the center of the apartment?
[*]Separate off the toilet is noted. I think that can be combined well with the wardrobe enlargement.
[*]No children are currently planned, but you never know what might come.
[*]The thing with the stairwell is true. So stairs rather in the middle of the house on the north side?

what struck me immediately:

- you have no wardrobe - but an inset terrace right next to the front door; could be quite visible...

[*]Visibility of the terrace is not a problem. On this side of the house there is nothing else.
Right there is a large green strip from a cemetery.

That about the stairwell is correct. So the staircase rather in the middle of the north side of the house?

Well, you need to know what you want. The worst location for a staircase is actually right at the front door (because you always walk through the dirt from outside) - unless you are planning a spatial layout at some point where the living staircase is converted into the stairwell.
The external staircase is therefore rather standard in houses with two residential units.
But opinions differ: for some, the staircase is a stylish living feature; to others, the opposite.

I haven’t quite understood the kitchen thing yet. It would actually be right in the middle of the apartment?

At the moment it would be - of course some changes will need to be made again. For me, the location of the kitchen or the open area in front of it (dining area or elsewhere) is always connected to the terrace. After all, you set the table outside, get something to drink from outside, or barbecue – you want short paths to the kitchen. A terrace is like the dining table where daily life happens.

I would be surprised if one walks from the sofa to the lounger and back again.

Also, the area in front of the terrace is not exactly the cleanest (grass clippings, sand, etc.), which you would rather not have during an evening tête-à-tête next to the sofa. A kitchen is swept more often. The living room is thus for relaxing when nothing is going on on the terrace (solar eclipse, winter, night, or rain).

How does one actually get to the front door? On average, it looks as if there is a slope there?!
For me, the uninviting corridor in the basement is a no-go. You will use it as an entrance, which would be a bit too creepy for me. But if the staircase is moved to the middle of the house, it might loosen things up a bit. This would then result in a different layout regarding the office and hobby room.

I haven't thought about the whole thing like that before. But it sounds logical! There is an outside staircase from the street to the entrance. However, we will often actually go from the garage through the basement into the house, yes.

Hello,

we have now almost completely changed everything again and also oriented ourselves to the tips here from the forum. Attached is the new plan.
The kitchen is still in the north, but we will talk to the planner again to see if it can somehow be shifted towards the terrace.