So basically, we don’t care whether our apartment is on one floor or spread over two floors. The only problem back then was that we also wanted to create storage space in the attic/loft for the granny flat, since there is no basement. Because of that, we planned a staircase up to the roof and didn’t want two staircases. One could now consider making the loft accessible only to us, then it would probably be easy to redesign.
We want three children’s rooms that are as equal in size as possible, at least 10sqm, preferably larger and very much wider. We planned the balcony to somewhat reduce the sloping ceilings in Children’s Room 1.
A bright apartment entrance was important to me.
Two bathrooms on the upper floor and a living room as large as possible were important to us. Actually, we like straight walls without a bunch of wall projections or anything like that. But apparently, our architect likes exactly the opposite ♀️
The study on the ground floor should possibly serve as a reception area for my husband’s visitors; we just want to keep that option open, and it has to be correspondingly large to possibly be able to separate a small waiting area.
Mother-in-law wants the kitchen to be as large as possible; she doesn’t care about the living room. Since the guest room is used about half the year, it should have a comfortable size. Of course, about 10sqm would also be enough. Storage space for the granny flat is planned under the stairs.
We don’t really like the staircase with the landing either, but apparently, that is the only way to work space-efficiently, as all our improvement suggestions were not feasible.
I would also find it nice to distribute the area between the two apartments a little better, but I just don’t know how.
The floor area ratio is almost fully utilized.
We don’t really want to plan completely from scratch because we have already put a lot of effort and work into it and are slowly running out of ideas.