Well. The way from the car to the ground floor through the stairwell is not a fine thing anyway. However, I have to say that the 4 meters around the corner don’t matter. We previously had a second door from the hallway to the storage room, but discarded it again. The argument about grocery bags to justify the location of the storage room is ridiculous. The problem is the hillside plot and that the main living area is not in the basement at street level. A few meters detour doesn’t matter anymore either.
Plan it properly so that I have something to argue with. I still don’t understand how, with “one” room, in an open plan, the people coming into the kitchen area are not supposed to “disturb.” If I sit at the other end of the room on the couch, looking into the open kitchen, I can’t avoid eye contact either. Of course, they don’t have to walk past, that’s an argument. But let’s just agree that it is not a problem for us. Should we then drop the matter and get back to the topic?
About the wall offset: Wow... keep it up! The answers to your questions: Yes! No! Yes! No. So, briefly outlined: We have a year of searching for offers and floor plans behind us. 5 of 8 small builders completely ignored the building regulations of the plot; the rest produced more or less complete rubbish. This plan was created based on our previous designs from other companies, based on our ideas, based on the cooperation of our architect, and — and unfortunately this is also the most decisive reason — based on the building regulations. Because the building is located in the second row, we are extremely restricted in terms of the building’s height, the number of floors, and the eaves height. For this reason, a setback was used and the house was offset, which we also like a lot, since despite the requirement for a gable roof and the eaves height, it allowed us to make the house more interesting. If this offset of the house, considering your possibly somewhat limited horizon, is still just expensive frills — frills in the literal sense (worthless, nonsense, useless) — then I gladly accept it as criticism without argument. This fun wasn’t expensive, because in the first offer we had a plan of a “standard house” from the architect who tried to realize our wishes without bias, and the price was exactly the same, with the same living area. But it might also be because the general contractor is family and we get very honest numbers here.
By the way: We are already quite far along, but can still change quite a bit, although I see no necessity for this. As said: The bathroom was the point of discussion, everything else (at least from our point of view) is not relevant. Therefore my wish here: If anyone has another meaningful suggestion for the design of the bathroom — gladly also with changes to the bedroom/dressing room — then please get in touch. Everything else we can now gladly put aside and not discuss further.