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

I don't quite understand why you want to place the house so far into the property when the beautiful west side with fields and forest is at the back and only the street is in front. That way you are shrinking your garden. I also don't understand why you plan the bedroom facing south and the street, instead of swapping it with Work Room 1 (north-west, facing the garden). A sauna in a large wellness bathroom with a view of the garden is something nice; we have that too. And as a couple, you really have space for it. You might possibly place the sauna at the bottom of the plan, with a window to the garden (where the WC and washbasin are now), with the door to the bathroom right after the stairs. And place the WC and shower in a T-configuration where the sauna and shower are now. A later buyer could then separate the sauna as its own room and make a dressing room out of it. On the ground floor, I would shorten the corridor and the technical room by about 50 cm and give the living room 50 cm more depth. 3.55 m is already quite little. The last two stair steps usually disappear into the ceiling, so they wouldn't be visible. You really want the rest that way, and I'm sure you'll make it nice.

I am "following up" with what the OP has emailed me in the meantime: I have taken the legend and the textual specifications with their original redactions - which I am not commenting on here - from the overall document of the combined drawing/text plan and reconstructed her excerpt from its image section from the original PDF, so that one can at least somewhat "read" what is visible there. Unfortunately, the excerpt really does not show anything, including no parcel boundaries :-(

I don’t quite understand why you want to place the house so far into the plot when the beautiful west side with fields and forest is at the back and there is only the street at the front? That way you’re making your garden smaller.

I also want a nice garden at the front, where walking to the front door will always bring me joy. The area at the front is limited anyway by two parking spaces and possibly trash bins. I don’t really need much garden at the back (for now) because there are fields and forest there.

I also don’t understand why you plan the bedroom facing south and the street, instead of swapping it with Workroom 1 (north-west, facing the garden).

The bedroom should not be above the living room because of the noise from the TV, music, guests, etc.

A sauna in a large wellness bathroom with a view of the garden is a nice thing, we have that too. And you really have enough space for that, the two of you. Maybe you could put the sauna at the bottom of the plan, with a window to the garden (where the toilet and washbasin are now), the door to the bathroom right after the stairs. And put the toilet and shower as a T-solution where the sauna and shower are now. A later buyer could then separate the sauna as its own room and make a dressing room out of it.

I will discuss it with my husband. The layout was his idea.

On the ground floor, I would shorten the hallway and the technical room by about 50 cm and thus give the living room 50 cm more depth. 3.55 m is quite little.

A smaller technical room would also be my wish, but that is not possible because my husband has a hobby for which he needs the space in the technical room. I can make do with the living room.

Who has so much money that he doesn’t know what to do with it, ...

That is not the case with me and my husband, but in my opinion the options for investing money from a house sale and various life insurance policies are currently limited for non-experts. And if there are children, such a house is probably a good thing, even if it might be worth less at some point in the future. However, I assume that would be a different discussion.

... they won't care about a possible sale, they should build however they want and if the house is torn down in 10 years, that doesn’t matter either!

I don’t understand that. Why should the house be torn down in 10 years? I don’t think it will be such a bad house that demolition would be the only option. We have just sold a house, which is far less comfortable, at our desired price, admittedly a low one.

Otherwise, the OP is just resistant to advice!

That is possible. Maybe I just don’t understand why it is important to be able to get from the car to the house without getting wet, why the path between the dining table and kitchen has to be short if the dining table is rarely used, and much more. I guess I’m just not getting it.

The bedroom should not be above the living room because of the noise levels regarding TV, listening to music, guests, etc.

I don't think you can hear these noises through the ceiling/floor. If anything, the noises travel upstairs through the stairwell.

But I am convinced that this clientele then looks for the property tailored to their needs for old age. Keyword "living on one level" in the upper floor, maybe still a guest room or hobby room. A house optimized for 10 years of life (60-70?) will, in my opinion, remain an absolute niche.

That’s exactly where I see a change coming: the Silver Age lasts longer and longer, and accordingly there are no longer only those property seekers who wait to jump out of their middle-aged home until it’s time for a assisted walker care suite. Instead, more and more young retirees with justified fear are pushing onto the market that the husband might fill the now free children’s rooms with Märklin trains and let the motorhome rot after only two uses if they don’t push him to change scenery. Those born just half a generation after the "pre-nursing home apartment" builders prefer to play spin the bottle for another ten years before bingo. In the waiting time for the undertaker, several cruises easily fit.

but in my opinion, the opportunities to invest money from a house sale and various life insurances are currently limited for non-experts.

Then you don’t youtube enough through the posts of the sadly deceased last month "Stock Market Grandma" Beate Sander.