Floor plan optimization semi-detached house on 380 sqm towel

more the possibility to have a more organized storage area than in a cupboard 60 deep, basically the basement shelf on the ground floor.

You can get a very good organized storage area in a cupboard if you can also move in front of it.

My wife only fears that not enough light will reach the living room then.

What does she want to do on the couch during the day?

You can cover the entire south and half the west side with windows. That will probably be enough where you need it.
In the bedroom, it can also be bigger.

You have to come to terms with the fact that you will live differently than you do now. Much will be better, some different. It doesn't have to be worse if you allow changes.

I find MadameP's project exciting, [...] With two gable-side houses, the neighbor would have even less garden left, which is why the eaves-side orientation to the street is fixed for him.

Should I have linked you to the wrong thread there? - at: there is nothing about two gable sides, precisely because of the corner positioning I thought of this (now implemented) project.

Can you give a hint as to what could be done more sensibly on the upper floor so that the ground floor works better? Or can that only be done by changing the external dimensions?

In general, designing "flows" better if you start with the trickier floor. But you have to realize that yourself, otherwise the insight won’t come. Whether this change in perspective also changes the external dimensions depends on the individual case.

What exactly does she want to do on the couch during the day?

You can cover the entire south side and half of the west side with windows.

We discussed the swap of kitchen and living room at length today, in terms of lighting needs I could score a point. :cool:
However, I hadn’t considered that we don’t even have 3 meters to the street. In the evening that’s no problem, we simply darken it, but during the day I don’t like the idea that practically anyone passing by can peek into the living room. To me that’s too little distance somehow, but tomorrow we’ll try out what curtains can do.

Did I link you to the wrong thread there?

Possible, the old link pointed to a post with three more links, but they all "geoopped". So I tried the search and apparently ended up in the predecessor thread.

In general, designing “flows” better when you start with the trickier project.

I just find the ground floor much trickier than the upper floor... :confused:

but during the day I don't really like the idea that basically everyone who walks by can peek into the living room.

How many people actually walk by there? And how many are more occupied with you than with their phone?

For me, the distance is somehow too little, but that will be tested tomorrow to see what curtains can do.

Is there no hedge in front of it?

Possible, the old link led to a post with three more links, but all of them "geoopsed". Then I tried it via the search and apparently ended up in the predecessor thread.

Also, one of the oopsing links initially (also) contained a classic semi-detached house, but with it quickly got a drive to the fraternal twin ;-)
The links oops only until you change the greatly mutated "T" in "Threads" back in the URL. I often forget to mention that weekly ;-)

I just find the ground floor much trickier than the upper floor...

The upper floor—more precisely: the sleeping or non-entrance floor, in the case of hillside houses with valley-side entrance, this principle applies only partly—is regularly divided into more and smaller rooms, which are also more focused on placement areas. It gets trickier there especially because of "door congestion" rooms: with three children and behind the door swing for each a wardrobe depth, you could easily waste a quarter of the floor area on the hallway. Once you have found a reasonably painless compromise solution (and the ground floor was already defined beforehand), there are plenty of places without walls below, resulting in columns and beams in the ground floor or light partition walls on the upper floor. Classic single-story, entrance, and living-dining-kitchen floors are significantly more tolerant in adapting to wall layouts of the "partner floor". Brutally put, such ground floors can only really be made problematic by two means: too many wishes and stubborn insistence on "one and only" stair shapes and positions.

Can someone tell me why kitchens are planned as a shell construction 240cm wide?

Most want a U
65cm dead corner
60cm dishwasher
60cm sink base unit
65cm dead corner
=250 plus plaster

The buyers end up frustrated because the kitchen cannot be sensibly arranged if plumbing is planned under the window.