Floor plan single-family house. Your suggestions are welcomed.

The washing machine, possibly a dryer (we haven't missed it so far), a drying rack, the technology (I guess it will be about as much or as little as you have), and shelves for all sorts of things will go into the utility/technical room, since there is no basement. There should be enough space to store most stuff so that you don't have to leave things at your parents' place. It could also be (which I hope not) that the house will no longer belong to the farm someday, and then it has to be usable.

Do you have an additional basement? If not, do you have any other extra storage space? Are you able to store everything well?

The laptop problem hasn't been that urgent so far because there are only two of us, and we just pushed the thing to the other side of the table. But the table eventually gets fully occupied. However, I know my partner and myself. Nobody sits in a separate room with the laptop when the living room is warm and cozy. Especially since we surf more than work. Maybe the living room table needs to be a bit bigger and simply have a "second level," then you can store the devices there.

...Technical room... It should just be spacious enough to store most of the stuff and not necessarily have to stash things at the parents'.

Ok, for laundry we still have a small extra room with 5m². We don’t actually have that much leftover stuff. Vacuum cleaner, broom, etc. still fit in the technical room. The rest is all odds and ends for the garden – we put those in the garage or an additional shed. Well, things like winter blankets, tents, and ice skates go up to the attic.

Do you have an additional basement? .. Do you manage to store everything well?

We don’t have a basement either because of groundwater. We manage to store everything, but – as I said – we don’t have huge amounts of stuff. I like to throw things away now and then, much to my husband’s distress. ;)

...No one sits down in an extra room with their laptop when it’s warm and cozy in the living room.

That’s why it’s best to plan a small spot for it right in the living room. I included that too. We don’t need it yet. There’s a cabinet there for now. But if it becomes necessary later, we’ll put a small desk or one of those library cabinets with a writing surface there – done.

Unfortunately, the measurements are not included. If the pantry is one meter deep, it is almost unusable. The kitchen furniture seems insufficient to me. The side cabinet does not appear to have the working depth needed for appliances. Possibly check the measurements. The window size also seems too small for the voluminous rooms. Why is the best side (west/southwest) so neglected? The terrace would be perfect there, I think. The house size consumes a lot of budget without special comfort being installed. Personally, the rooms are too large and therefore too "boring" and not cozy. Why do you plan so (over)large?

Have you ever thought about costs? You are planning a single-family house with 200+ sqm, it will probably cost around €350,000 for the house including additional construction costs but without the land. Depending on the location, banks sometimes have problems with such palaces if the location is not right. Sorry, this is not the answer to your question, but the best floor plan won't help if the costs are too high.

Everything is very generous, but as mentioned, that also costs accordingly. You will have to change the north view with the loopholes as windows, that doesn’t look good. I also find the window areas on the east side too small. Due to the size of the house, you have a corresponding room depth, so with windows that are too small it quickly gets dark.

The path with the groceries from the carport to the kitchen/pantry is very long. As already mentioned, a study should be planned for a house of this size. The children (when they are there) will grow up and are less likely to accept a working parent at the living room table. With a study, the acceptance among the kids looks very different. The bathroom on the upper floor is very spacious. I had planned something similar for our house back then, but then decided to make a large master bathroom and a smaller children’s bathroom next to it out of the one large bathroom. Today I have to say that the decision was right. With four people, two of whom are now in puberty, long waiting times can otherwise occur. :)

Hello everyone,

first of all, many thanks for the numerous, constructive suggestions.

Regarding #8:

We are planning a suspended ceiling for the upper floor. It might possibly be implemented in a way that there is still an attic with storage space. But I don’t know if it’s worth it, since we have a relatively low roof pitch, especially because a well-insulated access is not cheap either. On the other hand, it might be useful as a maintenance access, e.g. in case something on the roof is damaged.

Regarding #9:

The pantry is 1.23 m deep. The kitchen planning is not yet completed, some cabinets are still missing and the arrangement is not really fixed. It’s still a mystery to me how to accommodate my kitchen wishes. Especially the elevated dishwasher that I would like doesn’t quite fit into the concept yet.
The terrace planning is also not fixed yet. I would quite like to extend the terrace on the west and also on the east side. Since we will build it later anyway, we can first try out where we feel most comfortable. For shading, we are considering whether we should build a pergola on the south side, possibly with shading by an awning or a sun sail.
And our hammock chair of course needs a good place. We have also thought about extending the roof of the technical room so that it covers the entire west side of the house. This would then provide a sheltered place outside. The disadvantage is that less light would come through the west window into the house.

Regarding #9 and #10:

We will reduce the house dimensions, the rooms are actually bigger than they need to be. You fiddle so much with small details and lose sight of the essentials... :rolleyes: On the one hand, we don’t want to live too cramped, but it should also be cozy and of course affordable.

Regarding #11:

The north view is difficult. The windows are located in the bathroom (next to the toilet I don’t want windows with a 90 cm sill height) and in the bedroom (here we now plan to place the bed under the window).
Since no one works from home with us, we don’t place much importance on a study. And if you want to do your tax return in peace, for example, or have someone over while the kids are playing in the living room, we have planned a two-part sliding door between the living room and the dining room/kitchen.
Instead of the extra children’s bathroom on the upper floor, we have planned an alternative/guest bathroom on the ground floor. We prefer that, because we definitely want a guest toilet on the ground floor. The shower is a nice addition and shortens the waiting times you mentioned. :)

Regarding #12:
I agree with you about the front door; we will probably plan one with an additional light strip and the doors to the living room and kitchen will get a glass or plastic element. We will also change the direction of opening. The small cabinets are placeholders and slipped under the stairs in the last version of the floor plan. I want coat hooks for jackets here and a bench. Next to it there will be space for a dirt tray or something like that for shoes. But that is not fixed in detail yet.
I haven’t looked at the door dimensions very closely yet, I just took the standard door. I have to take another look.
I have to test your suggestion for the pantry to see if it then works with the rest of the furnishing.
We don’t yet know whether we might want a corner bench or a bench pushed to the wall after all. Then a floor-to-ceiling window would be rather disadvantageous.
We prefer to keep the traffic area smaller in favor of living space, especially since the house dimensions (see regarding #9 and #10) will also be reduced. However, the corridor on the upper floor is really quite dark, here we still have to think about how to solve this.

In the next few days I will incorporate your suggestions into the plan and then put it online again.

Thank you all very much.

Best regards

Somersault