Floor plan - planning semi-detached house with almost 200 sqm living area

1. Is that sensible?

It makes sense to have the staircase to the attic made right away. Retrofitting it later becomes complicated, messy, and more expensive!

You can also have the staircase completely removed by the prefab house supplier and do it yourself – that is at least common practice. Then you could design the staircase shape however you want.

I am grateful for your answers to the above question and any feedback on the floor plan in general.

- The window behind the bathtub doesn’t fit.
- The little wall stub by the shower in the master bathroom can go, and instead the shower can be extended across the full width.
- Check if the bedroom is big enough for a 180 cm wide bed. Otherwise, better make the dressing room narrower and have only 40 cm cabinets/shelves on one side, where you can put T-shirts, sweaters, etc. You only need 60 cm or 65 cm width for clothes rails.
- Consider whether you should plan a door to the living-dining room so the kids upstairs have more peace (or the parents downstairs ;))

You can also completely remove the stairs from the prefabricated house supplier and do them on your own - at least that's the usual practice.

??? if you really want to build the first house for an enemy, then you probably should. Otherwise, I would rather not do it – as I generally advise against building a "general contractor minus" house anyway. When you get a doner kebab, you don't get the peppers "on your own" either :-)

Why is there no discussion from your side, ? Several suggestions and changes have been made here. I remember, for example, kitchen to the terrace or guest room in the basement. Nothing comes from you except

That doesn't work here!

I'm sorry that you think that way. In most cases, I have tried to engage with the feedback. It could be that I overlooked some feedback, which I did not want to be ungrateful for, and ignored it. Regarding your suggestion for the kitchen, I have already mentioned that an open kitchen (which is the default setting for kitchen facing south) is not what my family wants. Regarding the guest room in the basement, you are right, there was no discussion. We plan to use the guest room as an office space, as there is more "work from home." It could also serve as an additional children's room if my eldest son decides to have some privacy.

Please don't think otherwise.

We are planning to use the guest room as an office space, since there is more "work from home." It could also serve as an additional children's room if my eldest son decides he wants some privacy.

That's the point: you don't say how you feel about this or that idea. How are you supposed to continue as an advisor if there is no feedback?! The idea remains unknown whether you like it or not. So one falls silent here. The only thing (but I won't keep flipping through repeatedly) was that you like to sleep facing north...

It makes sense to have the staircase to the attic installed right away. Retrofitting it later becomes complicated, messy, and more expensive!

You can also have the staircase completely removed by the prefabricated house provider and do it yourself - at least that's common practice. Then you could choose whatever staircase design you want.

Thank you very much for your feedback. Due to the floor area ratio restriction, we have to show that we will not use the attic as living space. For this reason, we can and should plan what is necessary to prepare for a possible expansion, but we should not implement it yet.

- Window behind the bathtub doesn’t fit. The window will be 1 m above the floor. Could this still be problematic? - The small wall stub by the shower in the master shower bathroom can be removed, and the shower extended across the entire width. Yes, we also suggested this to the architect based on your previous recommendation, but I don’t know why he didn’t implement it exactly. - Check if the bedroom is large enough for a 180 cm wide bed. Otherwise, better make the walk-in closet narrower and have only 40 cm cabinets/shelves on one side where you can put T-shirts, sweaters, etc. You only need 60 cm or 65 cm width for clothes rails. Sounds like a good idea, I will discuss it with the architect. - Consider whether you want to plan a door to the living-dining room so that the kids have more quiet upstairs (or the parents downstairs ;) )