Kitchen-living room and living room on the top floor or on the ground floor

At least. Still, your husband is right. Unless you are staring from the ground floor at a 6m high house wall of the neighbor :) However, that would be a compromise that one could wonderfully make in order to get other points accepted without discussion.

If such fundamental things are being debated, ujujuj.

I have a colleague who has the bedrooms on the ground floor and the living room and kitchen upstairs for a better view. It is a very nice house and I have not heard anyone say that they find this layout bad. For outdoor dining, he has a terrace upstairs. Since he has a straight staircase that is easy to walk and starts next to the front door, there is no problem when having visitors or anything.

Hello hanse987,

The property is on a slight slope, is about 700 sqm in size, and extends 2 floors downward (underground garage and basement), and where we place the house is all at the same level as the neighboring houses.
Regards

I would split it up :)

This is how we have it. On the ground floor, a large kitchen, next to it the hallway with a large corner bench for 12 people. From the kitchen, you go out to the outdoor seating area.
On the upper floor is the living room, next to it a small kitchenette. I think it is optimal this way and wouldn't want it any other way. The living room is hardly used in the summer anyway, because you prefer to be outside then. In summer, the kitchen is more important; we shuttle from the garden to the outdoor seating area to the kitchen. During the day, we are rarely in the living room throughout the year – why would we? A lot is done outside, crafting etc. is nicer at the large table in the hallway anyway, and in the evenings with friends it is also more pleasant in the hallway, especially with board games or celebrations. The living room, on the other hand, is a more private space to relax, away from the ground floor hustle. And the TV only runs in the evening for a DVD and is not an all-day activity.

As an alternative:

When we once considered building three stories, the idea was to locate the living room in the basement and let it open out onto the terrace. On the ground floor would be the open-plan kitchen with a raised terrace. Unfortunately, this would have caused the costs for the civil engineering to explode.

We already have the floor plan (L-shape, ground floor and attic floor, so 2 stories) but we are undecided on how to divide the rooms.

Can you tell me how that works? Without room division, there is no floor plan.

My partner believes that if the living space is in the attic floor, you hardly use the garden anymore.

He is probably right there. The garden is also a room, a living space, which is strongly linked to everyday life and daily work. If it doesn’t merge with the living kitchen, you won’t go outside. Maybe you go out, but at the first drink you stay inside.

We would have a garage with a roof terrace from which you can then access the garden.
Regards

That is more than useless on 700 sqm. It’s not even a garden. A garden is walking barefoot on the lawn, smelling the flowers, and harvesting the occasional successful tomato. Barbecuing on beautiful evenings and having the kitchen next door, or sipping coffee now and then during the weekend’s daily work.

Could it be that you never had a garden or any connection to one?

My neighbors with 2 children have it like : Both children’s rooms on the ground floor with the huge living kitchen. Large kitchen with island and big dining table, at least 4 meters of glass to the terrace and garden. The children run in and out, mom gets to hand out drinks and ice cream. In the evening it’s similar, just quieter and with dad at the grill. Upstairs is the cozy living room for retreat, adjacent to the parents’ area.