House and floor plan planning - First architect's plan is available

What I just noticed: Are carports allowed to be located directly by the street? Often a minimum distance of 5m is required.

I assume that the architect/planner has adhered to the specifications of the development plan. Nowhere among the neighbors are there 5m distances either.

I think it's great how you incorporate your ideas into your house project. Building a house is not an everyday thing. As mentioned, tastes are different. The important thing is that you feel comfortable in your new home later. I wish you all the best with the house construction.

Sorry, but the house is a complete misplanning – and I don’t mean the bathroom drainage or the pilgrimage route from the kitchen to the shared-guest dining table (the original excuse “I can’t when someone’s watching” I had only known from baking with a K instead of a B so far). Rather, the house is flawed because it was planned ignoring the needs of the residents. On average, we are not five years younger than you, but if there is one thing we definitely feel too old for, it’s lazy compromises when building a new house.

I wouldn’t put a dining table that is only used when guests come prominently in the living room and constantly look at it; after all, you write that it is also used for playing and for the PC. For overnight guests, there are no “hopefully” sleeping places, but rather those that the housemistress thinks up for them. You are moving several hours away by car, friends from your old life will be rare, but then they will visit with an overnight stay. In addition, the TV is only “tolerated because of marriage” and you wish a good fairy would conjure a place for that thing away so that this cup passes you by. All this speaks for nudging the planner to move away from the classic living concept of a family living room and to not accidentally locate the areas “His Room” and “Her Room” where a substitute villa across from a one-and-a-half story house on the upper floor luckily has more space, but rather to plan some communicative connection between the rooms (Child 1 and Child 2, who in the substitute villa 08/15 would have their rooms there, would probably like to avoid each other – hopefully not the spouses). And not to turn them into storage rooms for a desk and wardrobe, but to also place the TV in the His Room, and two reading spots (a chair, possibly with a table, and a lounge, for example) in the Her Room. And to drive unconventionality to the extreme: in the shared-guest living room there is space for folding mattresses besides a board game table. And I also see the attitude that plants are your preferred roommates over furniture as not satisfactorily implementable in a house planned with the motto “it can somehow be furnished once it is finished.” Then the separate workrooms only serve as places to find a couple of suicides from depression over their completely individuality-ignoring planned house, who couldn't unanimously agree on “hanging or shooting themselves.” Although: “hanging” would at least be a sensible use for the high attic. If you want to have hope in this house, the couple living there should be able to meet not only in the bedroom but also at the kitchen table – then this place must not be a stepchild. It doesn’t have to be an Alfredissimo kitchen – an orangery of ornamental plants and kitchen herbs with a stove somewhere, a fridge, a sideboard, and a dishwasher is fine too. Then the draftsman must overcome his shadow and be willing to call this “Bistro Cold Mistress” in the submission plan a pantry or galley. Such statements that a His Room and a Her Room in the plan must be called “Work” or “Guest” make me angry – and angry 11ants are sometimes more dangerous than lions.

The day ends, Johnny Walker comes: at the phase of mature design planning, “placeholders” (especially for things far from the living needs of the builders) no longer belong. And a “pretty winding path” speaks strongly of doubt that strict symmetry corresponds to your nature or rather strengthens the suspicion that more than aesthetic insecurity is behind it. From the solarium carports I would never ever have gotten the idea that they should be so inconspicuous. Rather, they would be the talk of all the dog walkers in the whole neighborhood, “that is the house of the strange South Palatinate people.” Unfortunately, your site plan is absolutely unsuitable for concrete suggestions, and I will probably only get around to looking for your development plan in my emails tomorrow. So still “unchecked,” I could imagine choosing a “trellis for two cars and three trash bins.” Regardless of the house shape – I hope for a non-square rectangle – I see the “truth” rather at 25° roof pitch, and if you want more concrete proposals from me, the deal clearly includes “free hand for aesthetics without strict symmetry.” In the carnival thread, we were already much further in aiming for a beautiful house than on the current basis.

What you need to quickly realize now is whether you want to build a house for your (current) needs or a house that you can sell reasonably well in 10 (!) years and that covers the typical needs of a family today.

What you are showing here is neither fish nor fowl. The kitchen meets your needs (not important) but probably not those of a buyer family. The two offices correspond to the "classic" children's rooms – with HER and HIS rooms, I would expect, for example, a large sliding door. The oversized bathroom with garden view will likely be less appreciated by a potential buyer family than an additional storage room or a dressing room, etc. ...

But the house is wrong because it was planned without considering the needs of the residents.

Let's not be too harsh on the prefabricated house builders. Unfortunately, they just want to sell. An architect may have planned the basic version but nothing more. Thank you for your contribution. Hats off.

I was only able to quickly read @11ants comment (which, as I like it, brings facts straight to the point), but how about if one spontaneously thinks further (at least) and makes a pass-through from the kitchen (or rather a nostalgic passage door) to a dining room. This dining room, in turn, has double doors to a guest room, i.e. a fold-out couch and so on. Both would be communication areas when visitors come. If the guests stay, then they have their domain downstairs with the shower bathroom. In the morning, you can prepare breakfast in the separated kitchen. In this case, I would move the kitchen towards the garden: romantic door out... round metal table with two seats... For resale, lightweight walls where they don’t have to be load-bearing. Upstairs picking up gentlemen’s and ladies’ rooms: one soberly watches TV, the other not sober in the armchair, as says. Large wardrobe in the bedroom, the rest can be distributed between your rooms. And then a bathroom that is not a leftover piece. Or was the bedroom a leftover piece for you? And the whirlpool goes in the garden... you can of course also relax together in the guest area. If you want to become campers, you hinted at this, and want to offer a spot yourself, then maybe a small windbreak from which the shower bathroom branches off. Edit: laundry also upstairs then