Floor plan single-family house OWL approx. 150 sqm with east garden

This whole insulation thing in the basement confuses me a bit now. Basically, you have to insulate somewhere anyway, don’t you? It’s not entirely clear to me whether you can also skip insulating the floor if the basement is uninsulated in the ground floor. The basement kids can probably say something about that.

But I would immediately suspect that the insulation costs appear marginal compared to the gain of the extra rooms. So cost/benefit I immediately see on the pro-insulation side. Especially if the south rooms get a window there.

Regarding heating in the basement – I would also build more cheaply there. In the utility rooms, just one radiator on the wall. In the living rooms in the south, I would be torn again. If they are fully lit with proper windows, I would choose underfloor heating. But of course, that adds up quite a bit. It remains a budget question.

I now see the kitchen planning as very urgent. Since you are free in planning – you can still decide what you like and whether that is enough – especially with the island and the, in my opinion, insufficient depth for the dining table. You can also set up cardboard and rebuild a room to get an impression. For me, the dining area would be a bit too cramped; it wouldn’t be worth the office in the west for me.

In general, I am surprised that the floor plan isn't being torn apart that much. I have read quite different discussions here before. So it seems we are on the right track.

.... because I couldn’t see it anymore through all the advertising
But I actually also think it has gained a lot.
I would have a few small changes, which are personal preferences but also basically advantages.
Upstairs, the shower and toilet should be swapped. The person showering does not walk naked in front of the window, the toilet user has daylight while doing their business.
On the ground floor, I would personally make the two windows in the cloakroom and the WC floor-to-ceiling, but then satin glass at the bottom.

Just a quick info in advance that we will probably make the kitchen island longer and move it against the wall. We are scheduling an appointment with the kitchen specialist in the next few weeks.

Before you order the kitchen:
Use the weekend to switch the rooms: study where the living room is now. Living room where the study is now. Kitchen to the main terrace.
I think that not only has some advantages in terms of sunlight.

Therefore, the door to the basement is included in the current plan and as an insulated (???) door.

That could probably also be done at the bottom?!
I would close off the basement at the bottom and leave the staircase open. Stairs can be so beautiful

That’s a valid point. Hm. Both my parents’ house and my wife’s had the master bedrooms in the south.

We now have the bedroom in the south; I would like to have it differently. The heat doesn’t leave the room nowadays.

I think he simply drag&dropped the doors there and positioned them centrally without further thought.

Anyone who does this professionally should have thought about it no less than we discussants here.

So we seem to be on the right track.

That all roads lead to Rome, the wrong path is an exception to that.

I find the floor plan quite successful. Except for 2-3 things.

On the ground floor, I would definitely swap the guest toilet and the cloakroom because of the dirt, and what I really don’t like about the ground floor is that only a "small" door leads to the kitchen, dining, and living area.

On the upper floor, I would swap the bathroom with the guest room so that you have your peace in the bedroom. I would accept the longer walk from the bedroom to the bathroom.

The dressing room is quite narrow at 2.20 m, because if you want to build solidly, about 6 cm will be lost again for the interior plaster. We had a shell construction dimension of 2.26 m, which works, but 10 cm more would not have hurt.

Regarding the basement, you won’t get around insulation. We have a 12 cm perimeter insulation on the outside of the walls, nothing under the floor slab but under the screed.
If you have planned underfloor heating, I would also install it in parts of the basement rooms and not, as suggests, radiators. We have underfloor heating in the hobby room, hallway, and laundry room. No heating in the utility room or the two storage rooms.

and not like suggests radiators.

Slander!

So, we will take over the notes regarding the kitchen and have the kitchen adjusted. I envision the exterior view as shown in the attachment. Then we will have significantly more options to arrange the kitchen and won’t have this cut through the floor-to-ceiling window.

The shower and toilet on the upper floor are also to be swapped.

We have played through the toilet and wardrobe. We somehow don’t see any way to extend the wardrobe to this length if we build the toilet completely into the bay window.

Let’s see exactly what they want for this design now. Once the numbers are in, hopefully we can continue planning.