Ground floor bungalow approx. 115m² for 2 persons

Mobility area rollator
Take a compass and draw a circle with a diameter of 120 cm everywhere a rollator turns.

Where do you eat?

Where do you eat?

I've been waiting for that question :-) We both skip breakfast during the week, then have lunch at work and dinner in the living room in front of the TV. When we both have time off together, in summer only every third weekend, we also have breakfast in the living room. If only one of us is free because the other has to work, sometimes breakfast happens at the PC as well. For that, we would at least plan a kitchen counter in the kitchen. If we don't break out of our habits and also eat there sometimes, we still have plenty of space for pointless kitchen gadgets.

I've been waiting for that question :-) We both don't eat breakfast during the week, have lunch at work, and dinner in the living room in front of the TV. When we both have time off, in summer only every third weekend, we also have breakfast in the living room. If only one of us is free because the other has to work, sometimes breakfast happens at the PC.
However, we would at least plan a kitchen counter in the kitchen. If we don't break out of our habits and also eat there sometimes, we still have enough space for pointless kitchen gadgets.

And you really never have visitors with whom you sit at a table? No birthdays, small joint cooking sessions, or whatever with friends? Crazy...

Diameter of 120 cm

I didn’t know that. I’m just starting to read more about the topic. I would have assumed that if doors with 95 cm are sufficient, then 90-100 cm next to the furniture would also be enough. I never thought about turning. I only have the picture of my grandmother in my head, who was moving around with a walker for many years in her small terraced house. Almost none. In summer we sometimes grill with friends. If someone comes in winter, we chat on the sofa. And birthdays are overrated. There is no family on my side either, and my husband’s mother doesn’t drive herself and always has to be picked up and brought back for 45 minutes. She’s not very keen on that, so we tend to visit her instead.

We both don’t have breakfast during the week, then have lunch at work and dinner in the living room in front of the TV. When we both have the day off together, in summer only every third weekend, we also have breakfast in the living room. If only one of us is off because the other has to work, sometimes breakfast is had at the PC.

Yes, okay. However, I would still plan for a table, because life changes. Habits change with age, and since you are already mentioning age, illnesses or physical limitations can make sitting on a chair at a table necessary. It’s not just the walker, which also needs a place to stand when you want to eat. At some point, you might enjoy the shared moments of eating, whether as a couple or with others.

We consciously do without a dining room

Hmm, I hardly know dining rooms anymore. In my grandmother’s house there was one – but nowadays houses aren’t built like that anymore, where everything is viewed and constructed separately.
As you yourself note, one thing flows into the other. First life, also with the dining table used as a storage surface, then the area of retreat (bedroom).

Could you explain that again? I really don’t understand that right now. Thank you.

You are drawing rooms that are very difficult to furnish. Your dressing room can just about accommodate 2 meters of closet length and is then already too narrow to access the clothes. It’s only 170cm wide. With the closet you’re at about one meter. The technical room is exactly the same. At 2 meters width, it’s too narrow, on the one hand, and with the door arrangements hardly possible to furnish sensibly. If technology is distributed there, it’s full. You can better distribute the square meters, for example into a more rectangular room where you can put closets behind doors.
Of course, it’s hard to judge without measurements, but you can clearly recognize this with experienced eyes based on the rooms themselves.

What appealed to us was the private area with bedroom/dressing room/bathroom.

But you haven’t included that now.

Since the existing building has the oldest windows on the current bedroom upstairs on that side (also a reason for the demolition), we found relocating to the center to be sensible.

Then one can assume that a newly built house will have better windows and better sound insulation than the house from years ago where you currently live.

That means after dinner we are in the office over 80% of the evenings. The remaining 20% we are in the living room or now during summer in the garden.

Wouldn’t it then make sense to plan your daily routine including your evening or all-day hobby?
Something like this comes to mind (to be considered only as a rough sketch, as it’s not worked out but just a spontaneous idea)

Isn't it then sensible to include your daily routine with the evening or even all-day hobby in the planning? Something like this comes to my mind (just to be considered as a sketch, since it is not elaborated but a spontaneous idea)

Wow, definitely thanks for the work you put into the spontaneous draft. At least it shows me that my mind should quickly free itself from rigid specifications like all rooms branching off from the hallway and a central entrance area. The only thing I personally still miss is the sports area. Treadmill and rowing machine are not very decorative. That's why I would like to have them out of the living area. Taking them into the office would probably be too tight, I think. Especially since I also like to watch TV while running, which presumably would bother my husband. After your general and specific input, we mentally rowed back towards the original floor plan. Until I just saw the interesting draft. We are currently questioning whether we really need a side entrance or whether to place the main entrance as originally intended on the short, i.e. east side. We will continue to discuss this intensively today. And maybe our BU still has a creative suggestion.