I would have the following changes made:
-Bring kitchens to the window side on both floors
-Left-opening apartment entrance door
-Uniform staircase direction, take the north side variant
-Living/dining rooms on both floors about 5-7 m2 smaller, for that the bedrooms 2-3 m2 larger and
3-4 m2 storage room next to the bathrooms.
-Modify windows on the east side (bedroom windows oriented north-south instead of east, KZ window 0.6 m smaller), thus providing more privacy for the rear gardens of the maisonette apartments.
-In the attic floor, a larger bathroom with a bathtub and window, for that a smaller heating/storage room
What exactly do you find wrong with my requested changes? Can you please briefly describe it to me?
It’s written here:
How should it be done better?
Greed eats brains. Instead of building 4 ill-conceived apartments where tenants tend to stay only one or two years before buying something bigger (to hell with high-quality equipment, since that would also raise the rent a bit), or where they could realize themselves better, I would also advocate a different layout, rather just three units.
Downstairs space for 4 people who want the garden, upstairs neat apartments with maisonette style.
Family with child/children in the smaller apartment and singles in the 125 m2 apartment? No, thanks
NOBODY here wrote that! Everyone here rejects your fundamental layout of the entire house.
If a family will not use the 75 m2 large, private, fenced garden with a garden house, barbecue area etc. because it’s 18 stairs and 5m away, I can’t do anything about that..
It doesn’t work like that in practice! Even I as a single wouldn’t do that.
There will surely be a cooker hood and hopefully also a controlled residential ventilation system, right?
I would assume that as well. An extractor hood comes before electric roller shutters and underfloor heating – even in a rental apartment. I’ve lived in several, including old, simple ones with my parents earlier. They all had an extractor hood. From 1980 also vented to the outside.
Typical case of "theory and practice"... you haven’t understood the criticism so far, or worse, don’t want to understand it. Because from your perspective you’re a nice landlord even offering a garden, others don’t do that... Disconnect from that and take the criticism seriously, not just superficially like so far...
There is some truth to that.
In my "old" apartment down below were 3-person families on 90 sqm but with direct garden access, and upstairs the single household with maisonette on 130 sqm... there the grand piano stands etc... that’s the practice.
Ex-act-ly!