Floor plan single-family house, 140 sqm with basement

From the living area, I would close off the staircase to the basement with a wall and then place a door at the transition between the kitchen and dining area that leads to the basement stairs.

That is a good idea! Nevertheless, I would now take a closer look at the floor plan area above the fireplace, that is, the transition from dining to living. There is not much space left, the house is "only" 10 m deep.

What motivated me to have the basement access in the dining area? That you don’t have this access in the living area. Even if you have a home office downstairs and come up to get a coffee, the route through the dining room/kitchen is much more practical. Whether it can be a sliding door still needs to be clarified, as well as the door from the hallway/kitchen. It has to run within the wall.



Of course, the right side wall of the guest bathroom with the open hallway situation can certainly be moved 10 to 20 cm further to the right.

I would keep the storage room upstairs. It fits a central vacuum cleaner, mop, etc. wonderfully. A cabinet for toilet paper, towels, and bedding, which should be accessible to everyone. I would even have a water connection installed there to keep the option open to possibly place a washing machine/dryer upstairs someday. Because if you don’t feel like carrying the laundry back up after washing. Or just to have water for mopping, etc.

I would now change the stair direction: [Eingangsbereich] goes to the basement, [im Essbereich] goes upstairs

Really? Kids and everything always through the kitchen to get upstairs? Nah, I don't think I would do that.

I would now swap the stair direction: In the entrance area it goes down to the basement, in the dining area it goes up

Entering the house and first looking down into the basement?
Children and their friends constantly passing through the living area?
I would rather be with kbt09 there

I would now swap the staircase direction: the entrance area leads to the basement, in the dining area it goes upstairs

Funny, that was how it was in the first draft. We swapped it immediately because we didn’t want the children to always have to walk through the living room. Everyone has their own preferences.