First of all, many thanks for all your answers and the effort you put in! I will try to address all points as best as possible.
whether you would start the planning all over again if needed
Theoretically, we are at a point where we could definitely start completely from scratch again. Whether this is necessary, we do not know at the moment.
As already mentioned, we are mostly satisfied except for minor details.
First of all, I will mention the so-called "town villa"
I take this misunderstanding directly on my own account. At the beginning, we were more inclined towards a typical gable roof house, rectangular. Then, during the ideas phase with the architect, we moved towards a town villa and from there we proceeded to the current design. What exactly you call what we have now – no idea.
The fact is, we are not fixed on a square or rectangle. It should be practical.
[*]I personally would also consider dividing the wardrobe into two areas.
[*]What is the reason for a hip roof? A gable roof is cheaper for your building, offers more attic space and better photovoltaic yield (in BW you need that anyway).
What exactly do you mean by point 1, dividing the wardrobe? Currently, we have practically planned it on both sides already, even though we are not yet fully 100% happy with it.
Regarding the roof: With the hip roof, we have the possibility to build two full floors with a ceiling height of about 2.63 m. Also, the photovoltaic can be distributed on the south and west roof. With the gable roof, the knee wall in the upper floor becomes too low and as soon as the sun moves to the west around 2:30 / 3 pm, that's it for the photovoltaics.
I also like the floor plan, but the pantry would be better used if it were 1 m deeper. As it is, it is a (barely) walk-in closet. And you have a strange zigzag path from the entrance to the living room. It is very convoluted.
If we make it one meter bigger, then the whole hallway is full... that's why we have not really wanted to do that so far.
The design is not optimal, but also not square, practical good or bad, because no effort is made.
I find it quite good except for 2 or 3 minor things that can be quickly improved.
And these 2-3 minor things are exactly what concerns us.
There is no additional storage through the villa look for e.g. suitcases and decorative stuff. Do you really intend to store these things in the dressing room or in the utility room?
There is storage space on the stage / under the roof for this. That just has to be enough. On this topic, we are really at the point where nothing more can be done given the house costs and loan conditions.
In the kitchen, 3 tall cabinets should be enough to enlarge the workspace
The kitchen is a placeholder – sorry, I did not express that that way. The overall dimension is correct, but the cabinet layout is not.
I would put a row of tall cabinets instead of the pantry and widen the island. Put the fireplace on the outer wall.
That is an approach we liked. We directly passed it on to the architect and asked for a design. Thanks!
That saves space inside and in my opinion also looks nice; we have done it that way and also like it from the outside view.
So far, we have tried to avoid this topic because the fireplace then has to be higher than the roof and thus tends to look like an industrial chimney. Meanwhile, we are thinking, can we ignore it? It would be on the left side of the house from the street view and would definitely catch the eye...
In an energy saving ordinance house, nonsense already, in a building energy law house even more so. Take a "Kamin21" (Black Matrix Display, Raspberry, Sound)
This is actually a point I would like to contradict.
Yes, we would have a central underfloor heating via air-water heat pump and this would be the main heating method. But calling the fireplace nonsense I find difficult. A Raspberry Pi will never be able to imitate the feeling and warmth of a stove fire. And that is really nice every now and then, I would say.
Sure, it is a luxury, but a cozy one.
All in all, many other points came up, but your input has already helped us a lot.
We will now try to rearrange some things on the ground floor, the pantry, the fireplace situation and the wardrobe.
I will get back to you with new plans.
Happy Easter, everyone