Floor plan planning shortly before submitting the building application

Why don't people plan their dressing room in advance when designing the floor plan? Sometimes it really brings tears to my eyes..

Somehow, yes... You spend a fortune on your house, but did you think through the room layout beforehand? To me, the house planning is starting to sound like a rushed job or something, as if you bought/inherited an existing house cheaply and are now trying to make the best out of the rooms you have. Moving things from the dressing room to the wardrobe is more of a makeshift solution than a desirable goal.

But now the cat is probably out of the bag. Put in the highest, deepest cabinets possible to fit the maximum and avoid having to touch the wardrobe. Laundry will then have to be folded next door in the bedroom; maybe you could even put a chair in there. No more laundry dressers fit in the bedroom, right?

Why doesn’t one plan their dressing room beforehand when designing the floor plan? Sometimes it really brings tears to my eyes..

Building a house overwhelms us in some areas. I invested so much time into it, still made mistakes and still didn’t manage to accomplish everything. It got to the point where I developed health problems. Apparently, I am not the only one; I’ve been told some people even gave up building their house due to feeling overwhelmed.

At first, two closets were drawn in, so we didn’t question it further. Now, standing in the shell of the building, you can initially assess it and start thinking about whether it might simply be too cramped with two closets.

I would personally not care about the appearance. Tall cabinets with simple hinged doors, maybe in white. Good lighting, possibly a light carpet runner. It's about storage space. If that's not enough, all the stuff will happily be spread throughout the house...

I have to smile a little because the dressing room (or the dressing room planned back then) was already a topic on page 1 of this long thread. There too, it was about distances between two rows of cabinets.

In hindsight, one must say the thread title is full of irony. It really seems like there was a lack of attention to detail, since you seem to have certain demands. Added to that are the wrong partners who did not sufficiently elicit the requirements from the client.

But: 1m distance between two rows of cabinets is not the end of the world. It is still just one cabinet.

Define for yourself—just for you, if you want—which storage space you need in the dressing room and in what quantity. At the latest, the carpenter or, if you prefer, the person opposite you in the furniture store should get some information on how many shelves and clothes rails are required.

A brief overview of my approach:

1. Measure how many linear meters of closet space were available in the old closets.
2. Clarify whether some of the items from the old closet should go somewhere else or if something "new" needs to be included (for example: bed linen can, if you want, move out of the closet into a dresser in the bedroom. I didn’t want to keep seasonal clothes in the basement for months anymore in the new building, but have them in the closet all year round; the picnic blanket finally has space in the hallway and no longer needs to be in the wardrobe—some things can also be stored more sensibly in the hallway!)
3. Don’t just go by the pure closet size, but measure here too! Example: my T-shirts lie in stacks. Two stacks fit perfectly in 75 cm width. If the closet element is 1 m wide, it doesn’t help me because a third stack doesn’t fit next to it.
4. Don’t forget heights and lengths. We measured how high the clothes rail may be at most for me to reach comfortably. Under knee-length skirts, for example, there is still room for shelves. Under floor-length dresses, usually not. Also consider how much space you want between shelves. Stacks of clothes shouldn’t become infinitely high, but there should still be some air between the top item and the shelf above.
5. Measure depth! Those who want to lay down a lot can create storage space even with only 40 cm deep closets and at the same time optimize the space between the closets.

I then played a lot with the Pax planner to see how to get everything in the best way. You don’t have to shop at Ikea then...

... you described storage planning perfectly