Floor plan with setback - yes or no?!

Is not uncommon in the countryside. There are hardly any rental apartments. Staying at home does not mean living in the "hotel mama" style or being independent like at 12. Most have 2-3 rooms more or less locked, have to clean, cook, wash. You are building a house for yourselves and 2-3 children. That's how I would plan. Separating the living room as a bedroom and converting the upper floor is always possible. Attic as expansion reserve. At the moment you have a huge box with a lot of storage space and on every floor one room too many. That costs money for nothing. The stair location creates hallway space especially because it is not continuous. If you want to rent out later, then you need separate connections for that part to properly bill the utility costs. Yes, I know stair gates and had exactly 1 day installed before they were climbed over. I would not build pointless steps into the house. It could get tight even with an impractical corner bench. You always have to draw the right furniture with room to move into every floor plan draft.

It is not uncommon in the countryside. There are hardly any rental apartments. Living at home does not mean staying at Hotel Mama and being independent like at 12

True - I saw that on Farmer Wants a Wife

Oh city dwellers take Farmer Wants a Wife as a realistic portrayal Now a lot becomes clear to me

By the way, I was not on Farmer Wants a Wife and except for some interruptions, I only moved out a year ago. Here there is still the extended family with all its advantages and disadvantages

Our house can still accommodate children and all. Renovations necessary, these will be done along with the scheduled renovation

Oh city dwellers take Farmer Wants a Wife as a realistic portrayal Now a lot is becoming clear to me

Hehe... but honestly: it's no use living at home with non-hotel mom if the workplace is 20, 30 km or even 100 km away.

Dear 11ant! Maybe you can’t imagine it, but we are actually lucky to live where the "common ugly German tourist" loves to spend their vacation

Oh, I can imagine that very well: I live in the foothills of the Westerwald, which, for the generally mostly nice Dutch, kind of represents the "Alps"; apart from the locals here, this holiday region is very bearable

that this first draft of the exterior design (balconies, stone wall etc) does not correspond to our ideas either,

So basically it is the exterior that you haven’t fallen in love with yet, but the floor plan layout is already close to what you actually want to build despite the quick sketch?

The "wandering" meandering staircase position wastes unnecessary space and pulls the stairs in the upper half into a position where, in the "upper" floor, it roughly "takes away" from the rooms what it “gives” them in the "attic" floor compared to a more continuous layout. The house can certainly be built like this, but in my opinion it looks more like a renovation than a new build, meaning more like a (possibly quite endearing) compromise than an "ideal plan" – I suspect this is also a major reason why you yourselves have not yet seen a similarly designed house.

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An acquaintance has a real two-family house, one apartment on the ground floor, one on the upper floor/attic, a total of 180m² living space. He now lives there alone, or with the two younger children when they are not with their mother. Previously, his father had the lower apartment, he has since passed away. The older daughter is studying 400km away and the hope that she will come back home afterwards and move into the apartment downstairs, in my assessment, will not be fulfilled. She has a boyfriend at her university town and has made initial contacts with potential employers through internships, she likes it there... He doesn't want to rent it out, as that would mean bringing strangers into the house... From this point of view, I would not overemphasize the possibility that the children can continue living there when planning... Who knows what will happen then? You first build for here and now! Especially if the budget is limited. Now the OP does emphasize that she sees no problem there, but still there was nearly a factor of 2 difference between wish and reality (or rough estimate)... I would build the house that you NEED NOW and in the next one or two decades.