Floor plan with a request for your opinions...

Hello everyone,

besides reading along here in the forum for a long time, we also asked some time ago regarding the positioning of the house on the plot. We would like to get your opinion again on the following floor plan.

Bebauungsplan/Einschränkungen
Plot size: 850m²
Floor area ratio: 0.25
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 1
Roof type: gable roof 28-48°
Style: conservative (brick construction)
Orientation: open construction method
Maximum heights/limits: max. 1m knee wall

Anforderungen der Bauherren
Style, roof type, building type: brick construction, gable roof 45°
Basement, floors: no basement, 2 floors (+ converted attic)
Number of persons, age: 2 adults (32 & 31), 1 child (12 months) + 1 child planned (2-3 years)
Office: family use (in the attic or as long as no 2nd child yet on the upper floor)
Conservative or modern construction: rather conservative --> brick
Open kitchen, cooking island: yes, yes
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: yes
Garage, carport: probably garage-carport combination (must also be bricked and have a gable roof)

House design
Who designed it: by us

What do you particularly like?
What do you not like?

--> I would prefer the kitchen more toward the entrance/street (SW corner), but then the living area would move to the east and we want the living rooms in the south (towards the garden).
We also tried rotating the house by 90°, but then the entrance would be on the gable side and accordingly you always have a very long corridor in the house, which we don’t really like.
Thus, the current variant emerged as a compromise.
We would like to separate the technology from the utility/pantry room and also use it as a dirt lock (for shopping or, for example, after gardening work). Here, the question for us is the 'most favorable' arrangement and door position.
Oh yes, which might not be clear from our amateurish drawings: from the upper floor a fixed staircase (at the same position as the ground floor staircase) should go from the upper floor to the attic --> hence also the dormer.

We would be very grateful for hints and suggestions.

Now, regardless of the floor plan - may I ask which program you used to create the floor plan and the 3D view?

The floor plan reminds me of a specific prefabricated house (D..Haus)

I don't think it's optimal that the access to the living room is through the kitchen.
With the staircase right next to the front door, you always carry dirt upstairs and in winter you always walk through the wet if you want to go from upstairs to downstairs. The latter was the reason for us not choosing the staircase next to the front door in the second house.
I would leave out the partition wall between the cloakroom and the hallway. It restricts your furnishing options.
Is a fireplace planned in the living room? If yes, where is the chimney flue/smokestack?
The way from the kitchen to the terrace is quite far.
I wouldn't make an 88.5 cm door between the utility room and the kitchen. Keep in mind that you will probably often have to carry drink crates, laundry baskets, shopping baskets, possibly also a baby carrier, etc. through there.

I find the upper floor quite okay. Maybe consider a door between the dressing room and the hallway; this saves you complicated trips with the laundry and you don't always have to walk through the bedroom.

Okay, I also have the criteria like the others, but I still think the draft is good! Windows at the top need to be bigger. A different kitchen layout means a different house...

I would question the extra shower behind the guest WC. The distance between the sleeping area and the shower is too long for that. Otherwise, it looks reasonable - may I ask who installs/plans such a huge driveway? The city or a developer?

Thanks already for the feedback....

: Sure... take a look at 3D CAD from Concadus... so far we are still quite impressed with the program

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I don't find the entrance through the kitchen/dining area all that bad. I prefer the living area to be somewhat closed off and not have a direct view of a door there. Simply for the sake of coziness...
I see the staircase the same way you do. We also experimented a lot there, but couldn't find a suitable arrangement without significantly extending the hallway, e.g. landing stairs on the north gable side. But then you also immediately lose a lot of space for the hallway and lose design options.
If anyone has any ideas... gladly ;--)
The note about the door width is a good tip... we still need to look into that. A wardrobe was planned in the hallway... hence the wall projection.