Floor plan single-family house on a slope

let yourself be inspired by the garden. just be careful, so you don’t find out your property is missing at least 5000 sqm.

create a path so that you can get from the street to the garden with wheelbarrows and such.

what do you think of the following layout?
basement: technology, common room, WC
ground floor: guest, older daughter, office, bathroom, gallery for the view with a nice seating area
top floor: sleeping, bathroom, younger child.
balcony is removed
floor area slightly smaller
open gallery

design the whole thing so that when you enter the front door, you hang up your jacket and the view is immediately led to the gallery with large windows. so you don’t get the feeling of going into a dark basement, especially since you want the window to extend over both floors

Hello everyone,
after a long time and a change of mind (actually we had decided to build with Fa. Holz 1, but the offer was roughly 80,000-100,000 euros higher than the offers from the solid builders) we have now decided to build with Fa. Massiv 2.

Based on the draft already shown here (this house was built three years ago) and our wishes (see first post in this thread), the following first draft was created (north is "left").

The biggest change to the wishes was cutting off the gallery I loved, that is, the roof half opened down to the ground floor.
Both the construction company and the architect strongly advised against it for financial (at least 25,000 euros extra) and energy reasons.
Instead, it was suggested that the room height could be further increased to accommodate the more spacious feeling I desired.

We would greatly appreciate your opinions!
We already quite like the draft.

What we would probably change:
Ground floor:
-Reading window (also) into the living room, instead of letting the panoramic window run so far to the left
-In the dining corner of the patio area not only on the south ("right") but also on the east a lift-and-slide unit, so that both can be opened and one can have a bit of an "covered balcony" feeling
-Do not move the wall between the staircase and the kitchen so far towards the kitchen, so that there might still be space for a shelf to put things on / counter

Basement:
-Second toilet not absolutely necessary
-Side windows of the children's rooms either not or only at the top (so that you cannot look in from outside)

Notes:
-In the living area I feel there are very few walls to place shelves or similar things... Of course, because of considering my wish for a view. How do you see it, is there very little wall space there?
-Under the patio area on the ground floor it says "Access to the garden," in case it is not readable. How exactly that should look still needs to be clarified
-Although several members have mentioned it here, the architect apparently (at least for now?) does not see a problem with the connection of garage and house. This "airlock" on the ground floor between garage and house would be nice for us, but not a must; we will ask the architect about it specifically
-In this thread it was mentioned that a passage to the garage basement can be critical for several reasons. I will also address this with the architect

Many things strike me as very positive right away, for example:

1) convenient separation/connection of cooking and eating: open kitchen, which nonetheless is not "in the middle of the living room"

2) straight staircase

3) not too much and not too little proximity between bedroom and children's room: doors far apart, wall hopefully quite soundproof.

4) my highlight: elegant solution to the "split-level house dilemma": in many split-level houses, the shortest way from the living room to the garden leads through a children's room / bedroom in the split-level floor - not here. And the mini-hallway also creates some certain separation to the parents' area.

A few things I would still improve:

a) A dressing room that is not a walk-through room can, in my opinion, be dispensed with. The main advantage of a dressing room is that a partner who gets up earlier can quietly get their clothes while the other continues to sleep. This is not possible here. Maybe you could consider installing a door between the dressing room and the bathroom. But then the shower would have to be moved elsewhere.

b) The shower on the ground floor will probably never be used by anyone. From the sleeping area you have to go through the whole house to get there - and also through the "dirty" hallway where you take off your street shoes.

c) No door between hallway and living room

d) No door between living room and children's area: think about the case that you have visitors in the evening and your children already want to sleep. The best place for this door could be the entrance to the children's area.

Is the above a terrace or a balcony? I like the interior, I just think the exterior is not sufficiently considered. I would not block the children's room window with the balcony.

The house is supposed to accommodate a family of four, but in the 2.2m wide kitchen, after placing the cabinets, only one person can sit comfortably at most. But okay, you do have dining places for 8 people o_Oo_Oo_O Something doesn’t add up...

The bedroom also seems quite cramped to me at 2.95m. Many beds are already 2.2-2.3m long, and with a TV on the wall, it will also be quite cozy passing through here.

I also find the staircase slope quite steep for such a frequently used staircase...

The shower on the ground floor has already been mentioned. I’m also a fan of having an extra shower in the house, but in this case, you would have to walk across the house in a bathrobe...

The hallway near the bedrooms is completely devoid of light. At noon at 2 PM the lighting is at 100% because no ray of light reaches inside...

I would fundamentally revise the concept.

Unfortunately, I am not completely up to date on where the slope runs from and to. You write that you would omit the side windows for the children (presumably North and South, right?). Then these would be pure east windows. Basically, I would place your bedroom rather in the north, and the children's rooms preferably bright. For the kitchen, shallow cabinets were planned at the top of the plan. You should consider whether this suits you.