I repeat, if it says "feedback wanted," then you also get feedback, of all kinds. And that only happens once plans are shown at the earliest. Whether that is already the construction planning or the excavator is rolling up, that's not my concern. Otherwise, one has to say, "Please just look and keep quiet." ;)
I think you misunderstood my answer. I wasn’t talking about this thread here (see quote), you can of course give feedback however you want there. But if you look at your last posts (generally here in the forum), they are all either instructive or negative comments. And when you ask for your floor plan, the only answer is "I’m not posting it here" (paraphrased). I just find that the wrong attitude, but that is only my opinion.
I’ll leave it at that now and back to the topic.
I see a few small things, and I still have the courage to mention them. Move the door of the granny flat/hall: it sits exactly opposite the load-bearing wall. You should consider placing it towards the main door or the staircase. Both would have advantages, maybe try rearranging the furniture ;) For example, I see the kitchen corner rather on the outer side. The windowless bathroom can also be inside.
True, I hadn’t really noticed the door situation and need to have another look at it. You run straight into the wall when you come out of the door.
Regarding the bathroom: I have to leave the load-bearing interior walls as they are since the structural calculation is already done. Did you have a concrete idea of how it could/should be arranged?
The laundry chute is extremely misplaced. That makes organizing quite difficult. I would do without it.
Please no, I fought hard and long for it ;) Yes, I understand what you mean and we were already close to removing the laundry chute. But then we wrote down which compromises we would have to accept for that. In the basement, not much would change. On the ground floor, we would have a pipe through the living room, which is the biggest disadvantage. Here we made it dependent on how well the stove installer can clad and nicely design it. He reassured us a bit and in my opinion handled it quite well (picture will follow). On the upper floor, we had to move the door, which made the second child’s bedroom 0.8 m² smaller. Of course, that’s not nice, as it wasn’t the biggest room anyway. On the other hand, the older child could move into the granny flat eventually, and the children’s room would probably be repurposed anyway. So we’re talking about a smaller room for a few years versus “a lifetime” of convenience from the laundry chute.
But I agree with you, we have to accept some compromises for it.
I think the pantry is very well placed there in the semi-detached house floor plan with an entrance on the basement level. Moving a few meters is perfectly fine. It’s not a backup kitchen. The latter should be placed behind or beside a show kitchen.
We really wanted the pantry directly connected to the kitchen, and that always appealed to us very much. In the first plans, we even had that, but then the kitchen was quite small, and on the upper floor, we had the wardrobe too far under the sloping roof. So we decided on the separated version, and I think the few meters of walking is manageable.
I would move the door to the office a bit further downwards on the plan.
Thanks, I’ll pass that on to my wife—it's "her" office.
Regarding the kitchen or all-purpose room door, I agree with : this access is too important to be fitted with this poorly planned door. My opinion. Alternative 1: leave it out. You don’t need the door. Option 2 or combined with 1: just reflect on whether you want to maintain this continuously boring symmetry of the kitchen. A kitchen doesn’t have to be as static as it is drawn here. I would at least play with the position of the island. At minimum, move it so that the person entering doesn’t bump into it. I would even rotate it, so when cooking you look out towards the hallway window (top of the plan).
Yes, the door isn’t quite properly designed.
We know acquaintances who have a similar floor plan and had the staircase completely in the living area (along the wall) — like you sometimes see in semi-detached house floor plans with an open staircase. At first, it was fine, but later they spent a lot of money to add a wall and door. The reason was that the sound transmission to the upper floor (and vice versa) was not negligible, and you had to be careful in the living area not to make too much noise to avoid waking the children upstairs (no loud movies, no unloading dishes late at night, etc.). How much of that was personal perception/subjective feeling, I cannot say, but it sounded plausible.
We will reconsider and look for another solution. Rotating the island is not an option for me. But I could imagine first only putting in a door frame (without a door) and leaving it open, and alternatively or additionally moving the island further down. Of course, the passage would then be narrower, but you would have to walk around on the right, especially when coming from the garden through the narrow passage. I’ll think about it.
On the upper floor I would recess the bedroom door and rather have the small space in the hallway.
I need to check if I can still change this due to load-bearing walls and structural calculations.
The bedroom is too dark; it lacks a double casement window opposite the door.
Now you’re making me uncertain. We addressed exactly this point with the builder in the last planning meeting and asked if we should install a double skylight to get more light into the room. He said the floor-to-ceiling window and the skylight are sufficient and the room is only for sleeping.
Personally, I would do without floor-to-ceiling windows in bedrooms and bathrooms, including children’s rooms, and instead install wide windows with sills. The narrow slits hardly provide enough lighting for the attic rooms. At least in theory.
I don’t know how much changes are still possible because the structural calculations are already completed. We do like the floor-to-ceiling windows very much, but especially in the bathroom, they are rather impractical. Also, in the bathroom, the question is whether I want a window directly above the bathtub.
In the bathroom: lengthen the shower and shorten the toilet, possibly rotate it towards the room.
I noticed that during the bathroom selection; the splash guard is "only" about 1.15 m before the passage to the room starts. Possibly, we will move the toilet a bit to the left on the plan.
Light in the hallway: what should the only attic be for? Nobody voluntarily goes there anymore if there is usable space in the basement. I would give up the attic and either open the rooms on the upper floor upwards or only have the hallway open and make the rest, for example bathroom and bedroom, climbable from the hallway via vertical skylight hatches on the side.
At the beginning, we planned with an open ridge, but didn’t like it and explicitly decided against it. We also temporarily had 2.80 m ceiling height but reduced it to 2.65 m because otherwise, most of the rooms at the top and bottom of the plan would have mostly sloping roof area and only a little flat area. That didn’t look good in the 3D model.
The solution with the daylight spot we saw in another client’s house of the general contractor and it was actually pretty well solved. And I think eventually you are happy about the extra storage space in the attic because the basement isn’t that big either.
Thanks again for your comments!