I can understand you, I also enjoy it, especially the challenges when the framework conditions are not easy.
Nevertheless: if you have followed the thread, you also get to know something about Slammer’s character. Add to that a long, narrow plot .... and then without the experience of an architect. An architect already has a much better overview of how to approach a problem. As a client, you should of course not forget your own requirements for the house, but you should also not be too fixated on the absolute position of a room in the west or east. Someone might now come here or a good architect with a perfect design of a house, but since TE Slammer is fixated on the kitchen being located in the west, that design will be worse than his own.
As long as he doesn’t go to an architect, it will be a clumsily planned house, a corner here, a projection there, then a passage again because nothing fits.
You can only draw what you know yourself – and what does a layperson know???
Also, a statement from a builder estimating costs at 280,000 (I don’t know if that’s with or without garage) is, in my opinion, a completely wrong building block in the making of this house.
Therefore, I believe that further advice will not steer Slammer in the right direction.
I would look forward to seeing and discussing Slammer’s architect plan here soon (a new thread is also possible ).
Regards, Yvonne