Floor plan optimization city villa + fill consideration

I meant it generally as a food for thought. Don’t take it the wrong way, but I am not planning your sewage pipes for you. Just ask your [GU] or discuss it with him.

They are currently being built with limestone sand. Is that necessary?

Not necessary, but fine that way.

I also don’t know what to do with the office/guest room. The window recess is out of place... and I’m also missing a wardrobe or a spot for a wardrobe piece of furniture.

All in all: urgent restart, when apparently so close to the goal it still pinches in dozens of places and as soon as you try to improve it, it pinches somewhere else.

In our house (70s) [...] it was solved in such a way that the exterior wall at that spot was only built with half a brick, so the pipe could disappear there. Maybe that’s a solution.

That was a solution in the 70s, which is practically prevented today by the currently valid energy saving ordinance.

If you use drywall instead of limestone, you can certainly run the pipes inside the wall. Of course, it depends on what is above/below.

I already suggested something similar here, where possible – in my view, only between child 2 and the children’s bathroom.

However, I find your tossing back and forth of the floor plan at this advanced planning stage borderline.

There is a sketch by Loriot where a visitor waits in a room where everything is in perfect order except for a slightly crooked picture. The visitor tries to straighten the picture and at the end of a domino effect, the room is completely wrecked. That’s the model the OP has taken: take a design for a cookie-cutter villa (no burner, but works), then start pushing a single wall on the ground floor basically just because of a few centimeters until eventually a somewhat oversized bathroom is created upstairs. Instead of simply placing the "shower" object redundantly according to need, divide the bathroom and – at least as a nice social game for the forum – make a doctoral thesis out of the most original partition wall layout. Voila, here’s the dead end!

I would definitely not describe the floor plan as a dead end. I find the bathrooms good, especially because of the recessed wall. For the rest, one has to look for solutions without immediately questioning the whole thing.

However, I find your back-and-forth switching of the floor plan at such an advanced stage of planning borderline. You will never make everyone happy with your floor plan here. One small point of criticism is enough for you to overturn everything. You have to be convinced of your planning, right?! I don’t mean swapping bathtub and shower again, but at least the basic arrangement of the rooms.

These sentences get straight to the point. And yes: I am equally not involved in this planning, but this hopping around doesn’t help.

Do you all find the two bathrooms on the upper floor so awful?

I find them thoughtless. The master bathroom is okay, but the kids’ bathroom is too crowded for me. And overdone. I would make a bath/shower combo there.

Well, I don’t want to pull out drawers in the dining room. There we have doors or also an open shelf. Looks very nice. And it doesn’t have to be that deep either; 30 cm depth is enough for glasses, etc. You can reach everything well. On the island, we have no function at all; we wash and cook on the other side (outer wall). Surely, you could also have put the cooktop on the island, but we didn’t want a hood hanging in the room, and besides, I find it annoying to wash ingredients and then carry them to the other side. So we have everything on one side (with workspace between sink and cooktop) and it’s a nice workflow. On the island, we only have a mixer. Otherwise, we rarely use the surface.

A good example from Chris that a kitchen can and should be more than a line plus island. You have to see how you want the functions. In this design, there is a lot of space for the dining area. Is a cabinet for dishes or glasses planned there? has also nicely demonstrated that certain utensils need space in the kitchen. I find the planning for practical use missing. How do you want to equip and use the kitchen? Where to put the sequences of appliances and so on?

and I’m also missing a wardrobe or a place for a wardrobe furniture piece.

That can ruin the whole design. You are using a lot of space for kitchen and dining. Chilling would be too cramped for me personally. Looking at the proportions, I rather see the kitchen and living room swapped. Wardrobe can be placed under the stairs. Utility room: I would make the guest WC a bit narrower and longer so that a pantry shelf can fit in the front area. Then reverse the door swing. I find the staircase too dominant; I would plan without a landing. The carport parking spot irritates me, but I am certainly missing the background because of the slope. The bedroom on the upper floor is very narrow; the dressing room consumes a lot of space without value. Comparing the bathroom areas: I am back at the overcrowded kids’ bathroom… why do you two need two sinks—? Either you both stand in the bathroom together, then you don’t need the space-consuming master area including dressing room, or you both have different waking habits, then one washbasin is enough.

The location of the carport confuses me, but I'm certainly missing the background because of the slope.

Thank you for your input. What exactly is confusing about the carport?

The orientation is towards southwest.
I am missing the site plan.