Floor plan optimization - semi-detached house approximately 150 sqm

I am really sad about the tone here. I asked a clearly defined question. Deliberately without much ado, because that distracts from my actual question. Where the plot is, where a garden is, how old the architect is. That is all irrelevant to my question.

That is nonsense and the reason for your frustration. You want to quickly discuss a half-baked idea without substance, where we waste time and brains? Okay, here comes an assessment of your doodling: General: The ground floor and upper floor dimensions do not match. So that’s already rubbish unless there is a 12 (!) cm setback on the ground floor? There is a basement that the building is built on? Where is the access to it? Is the staircase exactly aligned? What kind of roof is on the building? How high are the floor heights? What does the zoning plan say about it? How thick and made of what are the exterior walls concerning the energy saving ordinance? Staircase relatively too large. Ground floor: Upon entering the house you run into a corner. The open-plan kitchen-living area is too tiny for 4 people as the main living space. The table blocks the exit to the (imagined) terrace that might be there. You can hardly sit there either; the chairs at the terrace door are definitely not usable. The pantry is too narrow to place any shelf. Complete waste of space. Please furnish the guest room! Totally unsuitable as a bedroom for a potential later separation (which is nonsense anyway). Bathroom is too large in proportion. Why is the washing machine there if there is a basement? Upper floor: Long dark narrow hallway is questionable and ugly. Bedroom very tight. When you open the wardrobe door you fall onto the bed. Dressing is only possible one at a time and only with acrobatic skills. Drainage of the WC will probably be interesting. Also: Where is south? Depending on that, the children’s rooms or the kitchen-living area might be rather dark.

I am really sad about the tone here.

And do you know why I am sad? 1. Because some questioners think they can fool us or some of us or someone directly by saying things that are not true.... Once again, there is the anonymous forum world behind which one hides. You want something, but you don’t have to be sincere. 2. If an architect planned it and you only traced it with a program, then it is very sad that such “architects” are even allowed to take money. They sully the profession with such an “idea.” And even worse: such houses are then built with the client’s money and they have to learn with these mistakes. 3. If it was your idea, then it makes me sad that you don’t see how paradoxical some things are. You think you can play the expert and play with an amateurish idea in the expert league. You plan a house and do not line up rooms along a corridor. You take measurements so that rooms can be furnished according to their use. You don’t put a utility room in the already very small living corner, no dining door opposite the bathroom door, the bathroom on the ground floor has the character of a bathroom in a 1960s agricultural building, children’s rooms are not only located in the north but also get the 90 “low” window with extra high window sill, so they get to know the dreariness, while the bedroom upstairs has a 4sqm window facing south that practically burns. The corridor window upstairs sits arbitrarily, the corridor leads to nowhere. The front door makes furnishing the niche difficult. And why should a forum or every user who speaks up praise this program drawing and consider it good if it is not good? Even the dimensions used are not considered, and ground floor/upper floor are not congruent. Since you withhold important information, the forum comes up with no cleverness, no brilliant idea. That’s just how it is.... No arms, no cookies, I already mentioned that. It may also be that you simply don’t understand it.

No arms, no cookies, I already mentioned.

Didn't you want to stop using this saying?

Didn't you want to stop saying that?

"What must be, must be." ;)

(Sometimes it's really a tragedy here... with the floor plans and the wannabe architects...
For weeks (ok, only a few days here)... for months something is put on paper that isn't worth the paper... and usually defended with hands and feet...):cool:

We are light years away from kleinundfein and clever here.

if an architect planned it

Nobody here believes that. What I also wanted to add: if the whole thing really builds on an existing cellar, it must necessarily be included in the plan. The first keywords that come to mind are load-bearing capacity, structural engineering, and access. Given the previous explanations, I am still skeptical about that.

What I wanted to add: if the whole thing really builds on an existing basement, this must definitely be included in the plan.

But it is already on page 1. Unfortunately, the OP defends the absence of important plan elements. But then there simply isn’t anything here.

Didn’t you want to stop saying that?

Nope!