Log cabin with a clipped gable roof by the forest - improve planning?

Do not put the washing machine in the bathroom. That is done in apartments or small houses.

You are two now, maybe it will be 6 people someday, and a huge amount of laundry will accumulate.
We have 8 sqm to sort laundry, washing machine, dryer, small clothesline and a sink for hand washing, soaking stains, etc. There is also a kettle, water, bottles, and powdered milk. Who wants to go wandering at night?

The room Wohnen 2 on the ground floor would be space for the library for me. On the upper floor, I would remove the offset between Schlafen 2 and Schlafen 3. Then move the door to Schlafen 3 further towards the bottom of the plan. Otherwise, one would have to rethink the upper floor.

You can certainly separate off another room upstairs later on if necessary. However, I also have the impression that this would be pure activism. I can't think of any reason for it, except that an unused 30sqm hallway is total nonsense.

The shafts are, if I see it correctly, intended for the water supply and drainage pipes. I still have to clarify that, as a laundry chute was once planned, which no longer exists. You favor it, but don't you find the distances rather far? Especially since I wouldn't know right now where to put it in the basement. Besides the two storage rooms for food and other items, we only have the utility and heating room, which still needs to be divided, the bathroom, and the two rooms for personal development, or whatever you might call billiard room/fitness area/party room.

The kitchen cabinets are planned with a depth of 60cm, the island with 120cm. It should not be a problem to gain another 10cm without it becoming tight. If in doubt, the exterior wall would simply have to be moved 10-20cm, but that's a good point; we'll discuss it. So far, we have discussed the clearance areas with several kitchen studios to get an impression, but a final kitchen plan does not yet exist.

The closet in the guest room didn't really catch my attention - you mean it gets too dark in the entrance area? Let's see if maybe the bed can be arranged differently so that a closet can be integrated sensibly.

thanks for your input

Maybe I should explain the hallway from the beginning so it doesn’t seem completely random. Originally, we wanted to integrate an open space. The ground floor came first and we really liked it because everything was as it should be. For the upper floor, we knew we wanted the trio of bedroom, dressing room, and bathroom – and of course the children’s rooms with their own bathroom. The current hallway was more than 50% open space. We had it closed because all food smells immediately settle in the sleeping area, the children can’t sleep peacefully when we are in the living room or vice versa later, and the ceiling look would be complete chaos – open above the dining area with visible beams, then the open space and suddenly a normal ceiling without visible beams over half the living room.

Now we have a large room with relatively small windows. Are the narrow windows really that bad? Or does it only seem so compared to the rest? Are light wells, even more than two if necessary, useful to make the room usable? Or is this just 30 sqm of dead space? The idea to create a library there was our thought to give it a new use. Here we can also work with artificial light and free up our fireplace room a bit (where the whiskey collection is kept, if there’s any left of it ).

About the children’s bathroom near the children’s rooms: We tried several times but couldn’t find a layout that made us happy because having the children’s bathroom on the side of the children’s rooms quickly makes them very small. Placing the bathroom in the hallway does not make it brighter and we would have to be very careful that it is acoustically decoupled.

The staircase… yes, I think that’s still a problem. It’s not that tiny but looks odd. We urgently need a new design that takes into account that nothing protrudes into the hallway. Hopefully, we’ll soon receive a drawing from the carpenter who’s making it.

The house should combine as many natural materials as possible. All exterior walls are left untreated on both sides. The interior doors will probably be made of two-tone ash as solid wood doors, parquet will be installed in the fireplace room. Downstairs, we mostly use slate, and in all bedrooms, a nice carpet. The staircase will probably be wood, but nothing has been decided yet. On the ground floor, the ceiling beams are only visible at room transitions, the others are covered and the ceilings are painted white. Otherwise, in large rooms, the beams often make the room appear significantly lower. Upstairs, that shouldn’t happen due to the high ceilings, where they remain exposed.

Shafts for utility lines can also be accommodated more discreetly. A bulge in the middle of the wall would be a mess. Better to have a full false wall with less depth.

I thought laundry was mandatory in the basement. Given the missing laundry room upstairs, the unattractive bathroom, and the useless 30m² hallway, I would reconsider the entire upper floor. Also, you are unsure whether both children's rooms should face south. That practically screams for a different solution.

I only mentioned the kitchen depth in case you ever want 70, so it wouldn't get too tight with the window.

Do all cabinets have to be built-in? If yes, leave it that way. Otherwise, I am always in favor of neutral solutions. If the children want to arrange their room differently later, they wouldn’t have the annoying kink in the wall. Then it would also work with poster wallpapers from the beloved rock idol.

I think the upper floor has cost us the most gray hairs so far, so I’m open to anything. Of course, we’re planning quite selfishly for now, so our bedroom has the nicest view, practically perfect. I’d be reluctant to give it up, even though the reasons are clear: as a child, you only have one room "for yourself," and it should be great and cover more than just a bedroom for us. But if I give both dormers on the south side to the kids who aren’t here yet, where do I put the parent, meaning the three rooms? Does anyone have an idea or a drawing?

For your information: There are no load-bearing walls inside, but two beams in the continuous walls next to the hallway pull the exterior walls together.