Floor plan UG-EG - Sloping site

The access to the garden is really blocked. On the one hand, I think it’s nice that the child has direct access. On the other hand, you can’t get into the garden at all except through the bathroom. That’s a shame. How do guests get into the garden? Is there an outside staircase? Or do you only use the south terrace with guests?

I unfortunately can’t understand the issue with the bathroom and the dirty child at all. I would find it creepy if I came into my cozy bathroom and there were dirt clumps and sand crumbs scattered on the tiles. Also, I wonder how long the son has to play in the sandbox?

I think this direct access to the pantry is a bit exaggerated. I find other things more important. But okay, if that’s how it’s supposed to be. By the way, we have a little over 4m2 for the pantry. In there are: 1.5m shelf for cans, pasta, etc., yellow bag, paper box, glass box, water crates (7!), beer crate, wine rack, shelf for hand brooms, bags, and the like. So I don’t see any danger for your pantry to be too small.

I don’t like the guest toilet being almost in the open space at all. That way, you have toilet noises directly in the living room. The door alone doesn’t manage to stop the regular flushing noises when there are guests. That’s uncomfortable for the guests too. If you really want to sleep upstairs later, a shower in the guest toilet would also be useful.

Find the division of the garden unfavorable. Son plays downstairs and one of you has to go with him. Forgot water again upstairs. Barbecue area all downstairs and then back upstairs.

I am in favor of swapping ground floor and basement.
If you decide against swapping, please have a direct access from the hallway to the garden.

I would never think of showering my child after every digging session. At the moment, I could bathe her 5 times a day. When guest children are around, it leads to dune formation inside the house anyway. Sand is everywhere.

Find the utility room for technology, storage, laundry not too big.

Ground floor feels old-fashioned and cramped.

Check the dining area, it looks a bit too small. Unfortunately, I cannot read any numbers on the plan. Quality is not right.

The access to the garden is really blocked. On the one hand, I think it’s nice that the child has direct access. On the other hand, you can’t get into the garden at all now except through the bathroom. That’s a pity. How do guests get into the garden? Is there an outside staircase? Or do you then use only the south terrace with guests?

The 3D are stupid, they are not yet adapted regarding the outdoor area, that confuses. Yes, there are possibilities on both sides from the top front to get down into the back garden. We have planned a staircase going down on the side of the garage at the back by the garage at the passage between garage and house. Also, the terrace will not be paved so far around the corner and only 1 meter wider than the corner of the house. The remaining 4 meters to the property boundary will be normal, naturally sloping terrain. You can normally walk from the sun terrace on the right side of the house to the back garden and back.

Furthermore, you can get onto the sun terrace without having to go through the house. We will make a small gate in the garden in front of the house so that guests can also be received directly from the terrace in the garden.

Well, that’s not what was meant with the bathroom either but better like that than through our bedroom and nursery I wouldn’t feel comfortable somehow if I had a door in the bedroom or nursery. I have to think about that again.

Aha, the tip with your pantry is good, thanks! I’ve heard 5-6 sqm minimum to have enough space, so that’s how the size came about.

So you have actually thought through everything very well, so that it suits your family well. Great how you can justify everything. And if the house is set back 10 m from the street, the terrace facing south is also okay. There are neighbors looking from the back as well, so it might not be that "quiet" there either. I have just slightly revised your floor plan and specifically eliminated the angled walls, enlarged the living room, and separated the guest toilet from the living room. Shower is a good point, you could possibly extend the toilet towards the study. The staircase is now positioned a bit further south. Bathroom furnishings and windows still need to be adjusted. Maybe some of the ideas will help you.

You could have come up with it yourself and not have us supposedly start discussing from scratch. I was just about to link you a similar thread when I saw it was your own: - and in this one here: there were already some infos from the development plan.

The double garage (prefabricated garage) gets, instead of a deeper foundation due to the slope, a transverse utility garage placed

... should plainly mean that under the valley end of the double garage, rotated by 90°, a third room cell in the form of a prefabricated garage is slid underneath? The house design strikes me as not conceived for this hillside location, but rather as if a stock design of the builder for a city villa was taken, then the upper floor was cut off and put back underneath as a partially exposed basement. The result is then to splendidly miss convincing at least "satisfactorily" a combination made only from proven normally functioning elements together with the prefabricated garages which should actually be idiot-proof off the shelf. That’s how you simply build a question mark from twisted-together innocent single parts and wonder why the spark doesn’t ignite when you haven’t really done anything wrong :-(

Beautiful how the life vision and design come together. I like it. In the garden area, I would reconsider a direct access from the bedroom – even if it is a walk-through floor-to-ceiling window. In the living area, as you have already mentioned, the kitchen is very large and the dining area comparatively small. Possibly a kitchen planner could still optimize this and realize the kitchen requirements in less space. Only a €10k budget margin based on the architect's estimate might prove to be tight.