Floor plan proposals - What works, what doesn't?

When I posted it here, I think it was already the eighth time... we had no idea and no help... fortunately and by chance I came across this... Since everything was "torn apart"... we only went to her once... But what came out of that... was even worse... Now I hope for the new... improved... developed together with all of you...

When I posted it here, I think it was already the eighth.

Beginner :P We had three architects and each had about ten attempts.

and I already feel guilty... Well, I hope it works out soon... I'm slowly getting tired of "pushing stairs and walls"

You also don’t draw everything in clean copy
It is usually enough to make a sketch repeatedly, erase, move furniture templates, erase again, reduce one corner, enlarge the scale, add a corner again, continue to listen to your gut, to then know after a few weeks that this is rubbish, that is good and that there is the best.
You then let the latter be discussed so that you can change small details. Then you draw it in clean copy.

Regards, Yvonne

Beginner We had three architects and each had about ten attempts.

As I already wrote in your thread, there are trivial reasons for this (here as well, by the way). If the ideas of the house and the plot are two different things, then the number of attempts until you realize this can become almost infinite. Conversely: with every mental block you are willing to break down, you get closer to the solution (of the knot).

Basically, it is not difficult:

You start with the realization that it is no shame that there are not only people with different blood groups and eye colors, but also with different imaginations for dimensions.

Then you take a tape measure and draw your existing apartment with measurements. You know these rooms, you know where it is spacious and where it is tight, and so you match that with numerical measurements.

Then you take some scissors and cut your furniture out of cardboard in a suitable scale (e.g. 1:25).

With painter's tape you can mark on the floor what little space around the bed and in front of the wardrobe practically means for walking room.

All this does not yet lead to a Eureka moment on the first try. But you can certainly save a dozen major failures this way.

An architect (i.e. a professional house designer) who (nevertheless!) makes ten unsuccessful attempts either cannot listen or does not dare to at least talk the client out of the most impossible ideas.

I don't understand the architect who immediately creates a submission-ready drawing.

We tried dozens of drafts with and without an architect, penciling and sketching, moving furniture, trying, finding, discarding, etc.

Even the architect's drawings were more draft drawings than finished, dimensioned plans, and that was completely sufficient. I don't quite understand the architect creating finished plans right away.

That she will eventually get upset, I do understand. Because if I remember correctly, she is an architect employed by the general contractor, right? A fixed budget is simply assumed for the planning. You have probably already overstretched it *g*. But don't let them brush you off. It is not your fault; as an experienced planner, I just have to know that the discovery phase takes some time and during that phase, I don't make the effort to create submission-ready plans.

Maybe in the future, you can tell the architect that you will inform her when you consider the planning to be completed, and only THEN should a detailed drawing be made.