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Room 9 is the toilet, I just didn’t draw the bowl.

I did write at the beginning what we imagine - the feedback wasn’t so great there.

What do you expect for feedback when you start by writing that you don't even know yet whether you should build at all? Then, within a few hours, various floor plans appear, none of which are really positively received by the forum participants. Don't get stuck on your neighbor's house, think about alternatives (open living-dining-cooking area) and also your future. For example, children almost always play in the living room, which is of minor importance to you. Or the good book that can be read in the cozy living room in front of the fireplace. For you, you have to go to the oversized kitchen for that, which is not always practical either. Criticism can also be taken positively.

Just google your way through the world. Under house construction, house construction providers, there are plenty of ideas, advice, and tips on how to build sensibly (or also here in the forum). On image Google, there are thousands of floor plans. Then you might also get a feel for how rooms come into being. You won’t get any dumber.

So we are already a bit further along and are planning with an architect - I would strongly advise you to do the same for the following reasons:

- Tstairs and hallway must fit on both the ground floor and the upper floor
- Do you want a fireplace? If yes - it must fit into the planning upstairs and downstairs
- Statics!!! - a professional must handle that
- Orientation - where is which cardinal direction?? This determines the location of the rooms
--> Living spaces e.g. southwest, study north, etc.
- Plot - every plot is different
- Bbuilding plan - this fixes which building envelope you have, whether a storey height etc. is specified

In your plans, I find the location of the stairs bad - you more or less fly straight up the stairs and several people cannot stand in the entrance area at the same time.
We have been working for weeks on the location and shape of the stairs - we have now placed them on the north side. How big should the stairs be - regarding space, how many sqm does one invest? Is it sensible for the study to be accessible only from the living room? Don’t you want a guest WC?

We have planned the living-dining area in an L-shape.
So the dining area borders the kitchen and around the corner is the living area - this creates a kind of visual separation between kitchen and living, and it is still one room - by the way, this is also a common solution in prefabricated houses.

My mother has a kitchen-dining room with a table for 4 people (but for more guests a dining room) - the table is in the middle of the kitchen - the usable part of the kitchen is L-shaped, one side has a window with a radiator and the other is the area for dishes and a cabinet for the vacuum cleaner, iron, etc.
There are many kitchens with a corner bench. I also already have an open kitchen today - with a good ventilation system, you don’t even smell the schnitzel 5m away on the couch. But that is a matter of taste.