Floor plan single-family house 2 full floors ~180m² living area - 760m² plot

In the quote, I only wrote down my priorities, in contrast to other expressed opinions. It was not criticism but a confirmation.

Unfortunately not. I am currently experimenting with your floor plan because I believe that the storage rooms in the middle of the house are counterproductive. Be that as it may – I do not see a result with this staircase and house shape without distorting your ideas

Would it suit your experimenting if the requirement for a separable residential unit were removed? We are also open to a different staircase design. What we still definitely want is a vestibule at the entrance area – ideally directly with a wardrobe. One should not stand directly in the living room/kitchen as soon as one enters the house. Furthermore, we want direct access from the garage into the house, as well as to keep an office on the ground floor. Basically, the room program itself should already include this, as it is also considered in the plan. As for the house shape, we are basically only limited by the setback distances.

Do you find it difficult to read my diagnosis constructively (I have deliberately written it simply)?

In fact, our design is based on a floor plan of acquaintances whose external dimensions are 13x14m (so the proportions are actually similar to ours) and appeal to us visually and in terms of spatial feeling. From this, we have tried to integrate our "compromises" (separable residential unit; garage-house connection; guest WC with shower). The implementation within these external dimensions seems not feasible for us financially and due to the "space reasons" on the property.

We actually find the pantry arranged in the middle quite nice. Here, we would imagine possibly planning an additional niche to place a side-by-side refrigerator, thus having more workspace in the "kitchen" itself. This is also independent of whether and how the plan changes in the future.

Many thanks to everyone who takes on our concerns and contributes their thoughts :)

For God's sake! Even with controlled residential ventilation, an interior storage room without a window with a fridge/freezer could quickly turn into a small sauna. Cooling devices produce quite a bit of waste heat. We have a pantry with a window and controlled residential ventilation, and in summer it sometimes gets pretty warm despite the open window on the north side because of our freezer. I don't even want to imagine what the temperature would be like if there were no window...

For God's sake! Even with controlled residential ventilation, an interior storage room without windows could quickly turn into a small sauna with a cooling/freezer unit. Cooling devices emit quite a bit of waste heat. We have a pantry with a window and controlled residential ventilation, and in summer, despite the window being open on the north side, it sometimes gets quite warm because of our freezer. I don't want to imagine what the temperature would be like if there were no window...

I believe you misunderstood that or I expressed myself unclearly. The niche is to be planned so that the cooling device is naturally not inside the storage room, but accessible from the kitchen area and just "disappears" into the wall.

Best regards

In fact, our design is based on a floor plan from acquaintances, whose exterior dimensions are 13x14m (so actually similar in proportions to ours), and visually as well as in terms of spatial feeling appeals to us fantastically.

Shrinking thirteen by fourteen to eleven by eleven, however, does not really give much hope for maintaining the spatial feeling. Besides, I don't really consider that an answer to my inquiry:

Do you find it difficult to read my diagnosis constructively (I wrote it deliberately simply)?

Here is an idea for the ground floor. Your wish for separability of the floors and passage between garage and house has been maintained (red line). Kitchen, dining and living room are less cramped. Later you could separate the living room and use it as a large bedroom. Upstairs it certainly works with the stairs as well; a corridor open to the north will then be created, from which all rooms can branch off.

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