House planning 135m2 in Austria

The ground floor is still missing.

I have added some dimensions on the ground floor.
The kitchen is currently just a placeholder – we will still think about it in more detail...

Regarding the ground floor bathroom:
Would a solution like the one in the attached picture be a sensible option? This way, the shower remains and the whole thing should require significantly less space. The only question then is how to best allocate the gained space to the kitchen/pantry?

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Regarding your floor plan
please draw in the furniture you are buying or taking over to scale. Also the kitchen that you haven’t ordered yet but wish for. If you, for example, absolutely want a peninsula, it has to be included now, the color and brand don’t matter.

Also consider the traffic areas so that Aunt Gerda can still get past Grandpa Hubert when he is sitting at the table.

Ground floor
Pantry so tiny, it fits into any good cupboard. There are storage cupboards that are real space miracles.
Cancel the shower and add its space to the pantry.

If the sofa is going to be that big, where is the cupboard, where the table, where the children's toys?

Upper floor
Bathroom very small, dressing room only fits one row of cupboards.
I would dissolve the dressing room and add those few centimeters to the bathroom.

Be sure to draw in the two-meter line. Even with a high knee wall. Maybe I can shower but you, at 1.99 m height, suddenly can't anymore.

Regarding the topic of the bathroom on the ground floor: Would a solution like the one in the attached picture be a sensible option? This way, the shower is retained and the whole should require significantly less space. The only question then is how to best allocate the gained space to the kitchen / pantry?

Shift the front door 30 cm upwards, insert your layout in the lower right, and also move the pantry completely down to the exterior wall. The gained space can then be used for a coat rack. (Why actually two recesses for a coat rack?) Alternatively, add the gained space to the pantry.

Alternatively: Keep the layout as is, but move the pantry up so that it aligns with the wall in the hallway, thereby creating a correspondingly larger access to the shower.

Personally, I would prefer variant 1, since the pantry could then get a window.

I hope to have cleared up the uncertainties?

Yo. Those are some walls then. For such a rather compact home, quite massive. Are those still 135m²? What does your program say? Does it calculate that immediately? Wrapping the bathroom like that is nonsense. A thick outer wall should be enough. The house is small. I find a half-landing staircase questionable here. At that size, you tend to go for a standard floor plan where the space is used to the maximum. For me, that means the entrance at the eaves next to the stairs. Is that an option? What knee wall / dwarf wall did you choose?

Wrapping the bathroom is useless. In controlled residential ventilation, this is an exhaust air space.

Yo. Those are some walls. For a rather compact home, pretty massive. Is it still 135m² then? What does your program say? Does it calculate that automatically?

With the current floor plan, it should be about 140m² of pure living space for now. That’s somewhat larger than 135 but also okay...

The house is small. I find a half-landing staircase questionable here. With that size, one tends to go for a standard layout where the space is used to the maximum. To me, that means the entrance at the eaves next to the stairs. Is that an option?

Definitely an option, I just found it even harder to fit everything in that way… but I’m always open to ideas! The half-landing staircase is not mandatory either; it can be a different type of staircase if the space is used better that way.

What knee wall / dwarf wall did you choose?

We are currently planning with about 2m.

Enclosing the bathroom is useless. With controlled residential ventilation, that is an exhaust room.

Out of interest, I’d like to ask why that is useless? A planner advised us exactly that to get 1-2°C more air temperature… But as often, it’s not fixed for us, it can be changed gladly!

Move the front door up by 30 cm, insert your arrangement bottom right on the plan, and move the storage room (SK) all the way down to the outer wall. The gained space can then be used for a coat rack. (By the way, why two recesses for a coat rack?) Alternatively, add the gained space to the pantry.

Alternatively: leave the arrangement as is, but move the pantry up so it aligns with the wall in the hallway, thus creating a correspondingly large access to the shower.

Personally, I would prefer option 1, because the pantry could then get a window.

I quickly tried to implement that and attached the picture. Also, I replaced some furniture whose dimensions from the software were misleading with simple lines here.