Ground floor approx. 100 sqm, upper floor expandable (planned bathroom, 2 children's rooms, 1 storage room)

Hello,

Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: 879 sqm
Slope: no
Site occupancy index: 0.3
Floor space index: 0.45
Building window, building line and -boundary: 5m to the street, 3m each to the orchard area and neighbors
Edge development /
Number of parking spaces 2
Number of floors 2
Roof shape gable roof
Style solid
Maximum heights/limits FH 9.0, TH 6.0
Further requirements

Requirements of the builders: living room to the south, small office (initially to be used as nursery), level-access shower, utility room on the driveway side
Style, roof shape, building type
Basement, floors: no basement, 1.5 floors
Number of people, age: 2 - under 30
Office: family use or home office? family use
Guest sleepers per year: 2-3
Open or closed architecture closed
Conservative or modern construction rather conservative
Open kitchen, kitchen island: no
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: no
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: carport later in the east
Utility garden, greenhouse: no

House design
Who is the planner: general contractor (GU)
What is especially liked? Why? living room in the south, number of rooms as desired
What is disliked? Why? window of nursery 1 should be moved from south to west (otherwise the wall looks too bare), driveway + driveway to the east not west
Price estimate according to architect/planner: only after Easter, my priority is the floor plan currently
Personal price limit for the house, including equipment: it will come to 1,700 €/sqm
Preferred heating technology: gas

If you have to do without, which details/extensions
-can you do without: bathtub
-can you not do without:

Why is the design as it is now?
The floor plan was seen in a very similar form during a house visit and is our favorite of all house visits + browsing catalogs. We only slightly adapted it to our needs (removed guest WC and enlarged living room, rotated nursery)

What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
Basically the floor plan suits us, but I would like your opinion again, maybe there is still some optimization possible. Note, as mentioned above, we want to move the nursery window to the west so the wall there doesn’t look so bare. Driveway to the east, not west. That’s why the bare wall in the west; the carport is to be located there up to the utility room door. Alternatively, I see the possibility of a window in the living room there and the carport starting behind the house. The plot would allow that.

My main concern is that we are not 100% happy that the roof is oriented west/east; I would prefer a north/south orientation. Do you have an idea how to turn the floor plan 90 degrees but keep the floor plan as it is? Only the kitchen and nursery could be swapped in the floor plan.

PS: The sqm figure for the corridor is probably incorrect, the GU will finalize this after Easter. Correct figures will be: living room: 31.79 sqm, kitchen: 15.19 sqm, utility room: 9.87 sqm, corridor approx. 19.5 sqm, child 1/office approx. 8 sqm, bedroom approx. 11.8 sqm, bathroom approx. 8.5 sqm

Data on the plot: length: west: 40 m east: 42 m, width: 21.5 m

Regards

Okeeeee. So what I notice: KZ: no child will really be happy in 8 sqm. That’s at best a mini office or rather a storage room. So if children are planned at some point, the children's room should be set up upstairs. You should also reconsider giving up the bathtub when trying to conceive. There’s nothing better to get small children clean (including the little black toes and fingernails) than a bath. I also don’t find it particularly appealing to walk through the dirty area to the toilet at night. Serving food in the dining area is of course also a nice way. Again straight through the dirty area.

KZ downstairs is only intended for the beginning. As soon as there are children, the upstairs must be expanded. The bathtub will probably stay, it was more of a compromise in case it could save some space downstairs. But upstairs there would definitely be one.

The dirty area doesn't bother us, we currently have it in the rental apartment between the bedroom and the toilet, and generally food is meant to be eaten in the kitchen anyway. Eating in the living room only with guests.

You have exterior dimensions of 10.5 by 12 m. And then a children's room of 8 sqm. A hallway more than twice as big as the children's room. A kitchen with a mini north window/ hardly any light. And a straight staircase - the biggest space-waster among stairs - to get to an apparently unfinished attic (or is the floor plan for that missing?).

Honestly, for me, almost nothing fits with the floor plan. :-(

Would it even be allowed to rotate the ridge? And what is supposed to go in the attic? That needs to be planned now, since the sloping ceilings and stairs significantly affect the room layout.

Which dirt zone? Evolith, a hallway is not dirty. First of all, this is a great design with good, classic settler house architecture. The kitchen with a corner bench would be too tight for me. But a table with 4 chairs would work great. There should probably be a bit more kitchen furniture. I would swap the kitchen and utility room so that everything is at the corner. Then maybe even a pass-through to the living room would be possible. Back door: great. Bedroom great. Nice house. Build! (Team massiv?)

And do you really want to carry the plates to Essen all the way into the living room? Including then clearing the dirty dishes?

In my opinion, a basement room for an infant is wasted. Most children sleep with their parents for the first few months anyway. Changing diapers is done all over the house and a proper play area is not necessary since mobility only begins around six months. And then everything is more interesting, just not their own room.
In other words, when offspring are expected, you are already in the attic and start to expand.

: The entrance area is usually rarely clean. Especially later with children. I can sing a song about that. I don’t go barefoot to the washing machine because I have to pass the front door. There is just dirt and dust from outside. Especially wonderful in winter.

I would also swap the kitchen and utility room and then move them to the other side. That way you have a more direct route to the dining table.