But why ask a detailed question when the basic concept isn't right? You yourself write that this is a process. But then you start with the fundamentals – only later do you get to the details. You are planning with a bad draft, just look at the bathrooms. Leaving aside that ideally water pipes are avoided over living areas (it's just bad planning if it is like that), but the other bathroom is practically unusable with your wall in the middle of the narrow room. The same applies to a chimney placed at the eaves. Then you come with a gable roof and have a headache-inducing staircase. Your staircase... the small "emergency staircase" for small houses... it's nice that you ask about the detail, which in your eyes is the only reason to change something. But there are already so many fundamental problems. On the ground floor: guest room: almost not furnishable. Somewhere there was also a bathroom visible from the bedroom in the east: at 2 meters, unusable. If something like that already doesn't work, then you don't need to discuss a fireplace or an insta-shaft?! Because you keep going even though a lot of misplanning has already been recognized. Later. A process doesn't start at the end. Nothing here is final yet. Ugly things will also not be final. Final is just before the building application, and that usually means multiple revisions by the architect. Playing around is all well and good – either you just play the beginner version and then let the professional handle it, you can do the game well, or you play alongside the professional. You can also let crowd wisdom plan if the professional is a show-off. A floor plan discussion here in the forum takes 6 hours. After that, only repetition or small talk happens. The air is then out. Here now the only interesting thing is whether you plan 650,000 just for the house.
Thank you very much for your comments. I expressed myself poorly; from our point of view, the floor plan is by no means final. The things you mentioned are currently bothering us as well. Therefore, I didn’t want to unnecessarily trouble you all with the floor plan already, but during planning, the matter with the shaft came to mind. Anyway: in the meantime I wonder if maybe we want too much or have too high demands. From your experience, is it possible to subjectively achieve a "dream floor plan" without dying one or more deaths?
Our ideas would be: large, closed kitchen in the southwest, living room in the northeast with a minimum distance to the TV of 4.30 meters, guest room on the ground floor, a shower bathroom on the ground floor and one bathroom upstairs (two bathrooms upstairs are not a must), bathroom upstairs facing east to be able to hang laundry on the garage (washing machine won’t be in the basement – where laundry is generated it should also be washed and dried), two children's rooms in the west, a straight staircase if possible. All with a living area of 170-180 sqm.
Are these too many wishes, what do you think? As a stupid layman, I’m at least not able to realize these ideas without dying a death. I don't want anything final but at least to work out a rough structure myself. Do you perhaps have a draft or a rough sketch that you could give me so that I can continue working on it? It’s not about making it as easy as possible for me, but I really can’t get any further. No matter how I turn and twist it, I don’t feel 100% comfortable and am now being confirmed by you here.
Regarding the budget: yes, 550-650 thousand euros are planned. Total budget is 1.2 million euros including land but without outdoor facilities.