Floor plan single-family house, approx. 200 sqm without basement - assessment

So north is left? So south would be west at the bottom?

What is on the surrounding plots? Maybe draw a sketch sometime.

So the floor plan does not show your current planning status. For example, the kitchen. Is the chimney to be completely omitted?

With a planning approach, maybe putting the bedroom into the guest room, but the bedroom has the wrong dimensions. Try putting a double bed with the appropriate external dimensions in there. And what then happens to the upper floor? What is the idea behind having the bedroom on the ground floor?

Have you already had any contact with an architect during the entire planning? How is the execution planned? General contractor or individual contracting or what is intended?

Coming home scenario ... one does not always come home by car.

In general, I would always orient children's rooms more towards the south / west than the parents' bedroom. For example, you could place both children's rooms on the upper floor towards the south. Then both would have the same balcony rights. And child 2 would not have such a dark room.

Are there actually any elevations of your planning?

And why is a children's room connected to the parents' bedroom by the balcony, while the other child has no access?

The thing with the children's room (1 like this and 1 like that) also bothers us. That just came from the architect, since I only "specified" the ground floor.

In the party room there will be a large Carrera track, which I will operate with many friends, sometimes late into the week. Because of that, the second staircase might actually make sense and also the fact that it is somewhat separated from the house. And it doesn't make the whole thing much more expensive either. More important to me, however, is the criticism of the ground floor otherwise. Viewed from another perspective, I can understand the objections. I would make the kitchen island narrower, there will be at least 80cm of space to pass through. Still, the path for groceries is long, that is also true.

For the exterior door, at least the very left path will come, if the room doesn't even have to disappear entirely (floor area ratio).

In the east, there will be normal instead of floor-to-ceiling windows. Due to the unfortunately very narrow plot, we have to place it so close to the eastern boundary.

And what I didn't know. If I put the garage on the boundary, I am not allowed to build a balcony/terrace there with a 1m distance as the architect suggested??? That would of course be annoying.

Regards

And do you have concrete suggestions on how I could improve it? I find the front door in the NW corner visually very good, I would definitely like to keep it.

The original plan was once an entrance centrally in the west with a large gable/Frisian gable. But since we would like the living room and kitchen to face south and, moreover, all rooms (including the utility room) should have windows to the outside, it all didn’t fit.

The garage is indeed very bulky. The room to the left of the garage may possibly be omitted again, as mentioned. Then the garage is no longer as big as a single-family house, but only like a double garage + storage room and passageway to the house.

Unfortunately, I only find those to be counterproductive improvements.

Especially in old age, when you can no longer walk properly, you cannot place a large double bed in the corner of the room. That is not a solution.

And where is the washing machine supposed to go? In the utility room - right? And then think about drying clothes on an uncovered balcony on the first floor?



There are already inhabited plots to your right? How far approximately are the houses from your property boundary?

Have you actually already received a price estimate for the construction? There are quite a few cost drivers involved.

EDIT:
I would say... set it back to zero, define the space requirements program, and then replan.

I have marked the other houses. Everything around is built up, we are building in a gap between buildings.

If we ever have to move to the ground floor, the dryer and washing machine will go into the utility room. Then the laundry will be hung out in the garden or in the utility room. It will not necessarily be carried back upstairs.

We have had everything on one level several times already... we can’t really finish it properly. Or rather, now that it is certain there is no basement, it is just the architect's first attempt.

I have not received any prices yet.

When I look at many other floor plans of this size, something is always missing. Either the extra large utility room, where coat closets etc. can fit and through which we exit to the garage. Or a study that can later become a bedroom. Or or or.