Location of city villa or single-family house on 500 m2 plot - rectangular

the question always arises as to what the current living situation is and how one manages it. I haven't read the whole thread. Therefore, this is partly just complaining on a very high level and maybe this floor plan is practical for you - even if not the ideal solution.

Yes, such discussions sometimes span this thread and a predecessor thread where it was still about a semi-detached house. There are simply different demands or, in my case, a certain pragmatism and tolerance that has developed. Nevertheless, I am grateful for the many warnings from and as well as others. Because it forces you to think about it again carefully and to realize what you are deciding on now and what these compromises mean. In a way, you don’t walk blindfolded into the abyss, but at least into a cave. For someone who has lived unprotected in the wilderness until now, this is already a huge step forward. Protection from wet, cold, and wild animals is really great. At some point, you will surely be annoyed that the smoke from the fire doesn’t vent properly and the cave smells musty, but hey! Better than freezing to death or being eaten by hyenas. The high-culture people in their clay huts with smoke vents and animal husbandry and farming can only turn up their noses at this. Ok, somehow this analogy got away from me, but I think it’s clear what I mean.

I like the suggestion, I'll inquire about it. Your own contradiction unsettles me. Isn't it like that now with the bathroom door?

Well, you have to take a closer look. I think the staircase is—as everything in your house—planned very precisely. If you simply rotate it, in my opinion, the start would already be before the passage to the utility room. Not by much but noticeably, so you couldn't leave it like that. That would mean you’d have to extend it further at the top—oops, there’s the bedroom door. Making it steeper is probably not possible nor desirable. But to judge that exactly, you would need all the measurements including heights and so on. We don’t have that. To be honest, if it’s about 10 cm at the end so that you can put a proper cabinet behind the bedroom door and maybe rotate the stairs, I would make the house deeper. You’ll end up annoyed forever over maybe 4,000 euros you saved. But that’s up to you.

At least in front of the sofa it still makes sense, since my partner has many plants that need light, and she could put them there. Even if we wouldn’t go out through the door...

No, why? The sofa is standing there, right? Or should there be a flower bench behind the sofa now?

The door by the kitchen would be debatable (although we would lose symmetry again—which I don’t care about but unfortunately my partner does...)

Yes, that’s a matter of conscience. I would also keep the big doors. However, we have almost gotten rid of the TV and there are only two of us. The sofa would be rotated 180° for me. I would plan the kitchen without an island and instead put the dining table in the middle of the kitchen. Then finally there would be space in the living room so you can actually pass through it.

And yes, otherwise you are right. There are different constraints that combined will lead to a not perfect house.

That’s just how it is. What I find especially sad in your case is the dressing room issue because you really need them. But okay, then it has to go without.

I would plan the kitchen without an island and instead place the dining table in the middle of the kitchen.

I also think that one should plan an L-shaped kitchen with the dining table in the middle for comparison here. By the way, I don't find it bad if the window behind the sofa is floor-to-ceiling.

I had already mentioned in post #96 that I saw similarities with the design by and also compared the exterior dimensions again. Although the ground floor at the top of the plan is quite compact with the room layout from the guest chamber to the cramped utility room, in my opinion this is somewhat overcritically judged here.

(whereby we would lose symmetry again – which I don't care about, but unfortunately my partner does…)

Then tell her that one of my mantras is that symmetry is ersatz aesthetics for proportion dyslexics.

If you simply turn it, in my opinion the start is already before the passage to the utility room

You're right! Why am I not surprised? Nope, not surprised.

I would make the house deeper. You guys will annoy yourselves forever over maybe 4000 euros that you saved.

It has actually already become deeper and wider (+6 m² net area). I first swallowed the additional cost of 6,500 EUR. Now even more – phew, then I might not turn the stairs. By the way, the dimensions can all be read in the in my opinion (you have to calculate a bit minus and plus)...

No, why? There’s the sofa, right? Or is a flower bench supposed to go behind the sofa now?

Are you referring to the from the architect? There is a corner sofa drawn directly at the window (doors). I had made a floor plan just for the open space in between. There are still 60 cm of space behind the sofa. So enough to put a huge plant staircase or shelf or something (which I haven’t drawn yet).

However, we have almost done away with the TV

Unimaginable! On the one hand, I find it commendable, but I work in the consumer electronics industry, for me it's quite central to have a large home theater system with a corresponding display.

The sofa would be rotated 180° in my opinion.

Sure, without the entertainment altar, you would rather direct your view outside to the beautiful scenery. But you have that from each sofa respectively from the diagonally opposite window. That’s why my question whether on the west side you could also work with floor-to-ceiling windows?

I would plan the kitchen without an island and instead put the dining table in the middle of the kitchen. Then finally there will be space in the living room so that you can walk through there sometimes.

Yes, that’s the alternative I’m currently working on and that the architect also suggested. I just can’t quite come to terms with always working in the kitchen with your back to the room and thus to the rest of the company.

That’s just how it is. What I find especially sad about you guys is the dressing room issue, as you really need them. But okay, then you just have to manage without.

Yes, that is very sad. But it was always more of a nice-to-have. In some designs we did include it (you also made great suggestions there), but it always turned out that in the end there would be less storage space for clothes.

hmm, my overview links were deleted by the admin and I received a note:

This is a hint and not a warning.

Images are to be uploaded exclusively via the forum’s own upload function so that we can also guarantee flawless access to the images in the future.
No correspondence will be conducted regarding this warning!

However, I only set internal links?!
I don’t understand what I did wrong...

Edit:

Maybe I was not allowed to link the images directly.
I am now setting links to the posts and hope that is okay.

- Current draft from the architect:
- Corrected ground floor plan:
- Current own draft with only ground floor furnished with peninsula kitchen:

And now I am uploading the latest draft of the open-plan area with L kitchen and dining table in the middle (with forum function!!!)