Jurahaus floor plan - early project phase

I find that very difficult. I have LRS.
Maybe the [Skizze] helps.
The 6.5 m are maintained. The lines are RFB.

No. Maybe I have cryptic-drawings-reading-difficulty?

With a developed attic, it can also work with a basement.

... could, spoken in full sentences, for example have meant:
"If the attic can be developed as a living floor, together with the street floor it is sufficient to cover all living rooms; then the basement can be limited to utility cellar functions."
But guessing and knowing that you meant it that way are not the same.

We have looked at numerous existing houses over the past few years and would have liked to buy some of them. Many of them had the raised terrace. We also have several in our circle of acquaintances, including in the same town. We really like that.

But you haven’t actually lived like that yet, have you?

We want short routes to the terrace; the slalom through the dining and living room in our rental apartment annoys us.

That explains everything. You don’t know “garden.” Even if you want to avoid it, you’d have to go on the lawn or to the edge of the property quite often for maintenance. Please check for yourselves whether you haven’t forgotten garden and property or if you seriously intend to live on a balcony, while the basement floor gets the cherry on top, namely direct garden access.

the basement will only face south.

Complete planning failure to place the all-purpose room with the exits exactly there.

The main thing is someone makes the submission.

That reads as if you could team up with .

But you haven't lived like that yet, have you?

No. We used last week to talk again with two families we know who live like that. One has direct garden access via a staircase and thinks it's great, the other does not have direct access and would like to retrofit a staircase.

That explains everything. You don't know "garden". Even if you want to avoid it, you would have to go onto the lawn or to the edge of the property quite often for maintenance. Please check for yourselves whether you have not forgotten the garden and the property or whether you are serious about moving into a balcony while the basement level gets the cherry on top, namely direct garden access.

Yes, we do know "garden," why wouldn't we? And we certainly do not want to avoid it, otherwise we could save ourselves the house. The ground floor will also have direct garden access.

Some have direct garden access via stairs and think it's great, others don't have direct access and would like to retrofit stairs

But in both cases, it's specifically about an elevated terrace.

And actually, you don't want an elevated terrace in the first place. It’s just not a better solution.

Good morning,
we now have the first rough drafts from the architect. We did not show her our first floor plan and only communicated our room program and ideas. The only thing we forgot is that we did not want the children's room and bedroom next to each other and also that the bathroom should not adjoin a bedroom.
Interestingly, the floor plan turned out to be similar. Especially the terrace. You can see better here that the terrace concept with garden access can work.

What we like:
- Direct access from the garage into the house. The platform staircase in the north.
- All bathrooms stacked above each other
- Access from the utility room to the garden
- Exterior view: This makes the south facade more harmonious and we also like the roof pitch better.

What we don’t like:
- Children's room in the middle with only one window, difficult to furnish and adjoining the bedroom
- Children's room next to the bathroom
- Bedroom too large compared to the children's rooms
- Dining room as a passage room
- Long way to the pantry
- Living room not so easy to furnish.
- Kitchen in the west

Mmh, besides the defects you mentioned, the kitchen would probably be too small for me as well. Apart from that, without going into the details, the design somehow feels too "banana" to me. There is zero wow effect or a "I want to live there" feeling of longing. It is also not economical, effective, or particularly elegant. It is not bad but also not great. Just "banana."

Basically, I am always in favor of direct garden access from the main living areas. To put it in Müntefering's words: "Stairs are crap." I always see it at my father's neighbors and his house himself. In summer, everyone is on the lawn and every obstacle to get there is just annoying. In the end, the rooms downstairs almost always get repurposed, and gradually a kitchen substitute room, dining substitute room, and recently even a WC emerge there. What is especially funny is that the neighbors in the new building next door started with the same planning mistake and are now going through the same development.