Floor plan planning for our single-family house Single-family house in SH

The residential building in the Muhl really has some interesting ideas upon closer inspection. The sightlines take up too much traffic area for me, but with regard to the dance floor in the living-dining area, I borrowed a bit. (The upper floor has basically remained the same)

The pantry is now really just that, the HAR is now also AR. The kitchen was made a bit smaller, but there is more space left in the rest of the room. Need to sleep on it.

(The children's bathroom drainage would certainly be a challenge, but that is probably the case for the parents' bathroom in the Muhl as well)

The sightlines require too much traffic area from me,

I prefer to let my gaze wander rather than send it down a bowling alley. Not that I don't see a quality improvement in the discussion, but: I have the impression that the sheer number of played-out variations multiplies even more. Although I see the most significant change in the swap at the entrance. In my opinion, the initial draft was already only one refinement stage "architectural discussion" away from the "final preliminary design maturity." Even what I would have done differently was more a matter of different tastes than disasters being built in. If it still brings you joy, that's good - but sometimes I can well understand those who only present their floor slab image after the dice have been cast. In my opinion, some designs are also unnecessarily pureed here.

** Baumann & Dürr, residential building in der Muhl, Homburg

Well, that really looks stylish! I’d take it right away!

Do sight lines really require that much traffic area? Our architect paid close attention to it, but it doesn’t seem to me that more space was needed because of that.

I really like the latest floor plans. Find a clever architect, they will get the last bit out of a floor plan. In my opinion, it doesn’t look like the initial ideas can still be heavily spoiled. That’s a great starting point!

So I would also aim for the living room in this form.

There are still a few glitches here and there. The pantry is now quite small and causes this edge in the hallway. Marginal - definitely not really dream house appropriate. The kitchen island is reversed again due to lack of space - do you need all those cabinets? Are you great cooks? Or could it also be placed against a wall?

If you only build a carport, it would be more convenient to have the entrance next to the car rather than having to walk once around the house. It's not a drama but would be nice to have.

The utility room upstairs is quite narrow. If only the washing machine is in there, okay. However, I wonder what you want to store in the storage room and whether the washing machine could also be placed there? Some kind of laundry folding area with an ironing board and large cabinets for diving equipment + Christmas decorations or similar.

Another approach with a slightly narrower kitchen (3.50m). This moves the stairs a bit towards the garden and creates a wonderfully large dressing room and bedroom with a view upstairs. On the ground floor, office, toilet, pantry and utility room fit well (you shouldn't let the pantry under the stairs become a constraint, as it can cloud your view of alternatives).
Entrance on the right.

, I'm glad to hear that. It's reassuring to know that we are currently not overlooking anything major. I think basically we are at a point where much is settled and there is little change between drafts (almost the entire upper floor, rough distribution on the ground floor). Ultimately, it's also fun to experiment a little again right now.

The pantry is indeed not ideal. Could you explain in what way a kitchen island can be reversed? I didn't dislike that (It was also stolen from the Muhl).

Since the carport extended with a shed on the house is planned (6x6+3x3m, see site plan on the 1st page), the entrance on the right side of the plan is difficult. But even with just the carport, you'd have to squeeze between the cars. I don't want to orient the house around that, but for now I would still stay with the entrance on the left side of the plan.

Do sight lines really require that much traffic space?

If I have the lake view from the sofa, that’s enough for me – I don’t have to arrange the living room door so that I can enjoy the lake view eight meters before I even come through the front door. You can push everything to extremes and overdo it. Personally, I’m quite relaxed about that: when I lift my eyes from chopping vegetables, I don’t mind if there’s a photo wallpaper with the door to the pantry behind it.

I think basically we are at a point where much is settled and there is little change between drafts (almost the entire upper floor, rough distribution on the ground floor). Ultimately, it’s also fun to experiment a little more.

Then don’t forget to stop when it’s at its best. After that, things go downhill, meaning that soon so many variants will have come together that they differ only at the fifth decimal place – and then you start to worry that flipping a coin (because if it’s too late for the elimination method to thin the list, only that "helps") might also make the "wrong" decision.

Given that the "architect filter stage" is still to come, I would slowly start to close the discussion and possibly switch to voting on the existing proposals 01 to 88.

I don’t see anything more substantial coming now – even though not every wall has been drawn in every conceivable position once.