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

That’s exactly where I see a change coming: the Silver Age is lasting longer and longer, and accordingly, there are no longer just those real estate buyers who wait to leave their middle-aged home until it’s time for a supervised walker care suite.

We sold our previous house with 4 floors and a 1000 sqm plot to a couple about our age, around 59/63, whose children have moved out. And that house had various disadvantages that our new house will not have.

Then you don’t watch enough of the posts by the unfortunately deceased "Stock Market Grandma" Beate Sander from last month on YouTube.

I will catch up. I hope you don’t become a despot because I have to agree with you so often. I assume there is some corrective at your home, or even several.

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

That is a valuable hint, then we will place the bedroom on the garden side. I would have preferred that from the beginning. Thank you.

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

I can confirm that. I sleep directly above the living room and don't hear anything from the TV or guests because our stairs are not in the living area but in the hallway – just like with you. Really think carefully about whether you want to be woken up in the morning by cars or by birdsong And since the bedroom window faces south, you will mostly have it open.

A smaller utility room would also be my wish, but that's not possible because my husband has a hobby that requires the space in the utility room.

And why doesn't he use his "ER-" or junk room for that? Hobby, technology, and laundry all in one room?

I also want a nice garden in the front that will always give me joy when I walk to the front door. The area in front will anyway be limited by two parking spaces and perhaps garbage bins.

I think your front garden won’t look so great with these futuristic carports, the garbage bins, and the street right in front; however, the back will definitely be a dream you can view from the living room. But there won’t be much left for flower beds, trees, and bushes. I would also place that on the north border with 3 meters distance and add the 80 cm to the south side. Leaving 3.80 m on each side is nonsense.

That is a valuable hint, then we will place the bedroom on the garden side

Ah, just saw it. Yay, good decision!

The soundproof ceiling usually only applies if it is made of concrete.

I will make up for it. I hope you don't develop into a despot because I have to agree with you so often. I assume there is some corrective influence at your home, or even several.

We live separately, but you can rely on the contradiction of a loved one. By the way, despots would not like contradiction at all. And whether I am happy to be agreed with when, on the other hand, I am talking to a wall, well, I don't really know, but I think: no.

But the soundproof ceiling usually only applies if it is made of concrete.

In short: no.