New construction of an approximately 8x11 semi-detached house, assessment of floor plan and windows

First of all from me as well: great opening, site plan and everything included, it really makes it fun to look at the things.

Thank you very much.

Therefore, just the remark that I would also leave the staircase out of the living room. Once because of the basement and then also for the teenager / privatissimo reasons you mentioned.

What I have learned about this now: There are quite different approaches here. We currently clearly prefer a closed solution as well, but I also understand that with a classic terraced house or a narrow semi-detached house the open solution is almost unavoidable.

And, dressing room, parents' room and bathroom I do not yet find optimal, but no good suggestion came to me at short notice.

A change regarding the dressing room definitely has to be made: the wall dressing room-hallway must be moved at least 10 cm towards the hallway. Otherwise, you will probably have difficulties placing a corresponding shelving system to the right and left of the door within the dressing room (the Pax unit from Ikea, for example, is 58 cm deep, which would not fit at present).

I would probably rather do without the corner windows in both the office and the bedroom.

We will do that too. The idea is to have windows only on the east side in both rooms. That way, there is no window above the bed in the bedroom, and in the office we would have the entire north wall as space for a shelf. The desk would then be on the south wall. That would probably be best in terms of lighting.

Our architect is currently still on vacation, so it is not yet clear whether the kitchen and couch area can be swapped.
Therefore, we are also considering the current plan in parallel


What we don't like so much here is that an L-shaped couch as drawn here stands with the back in the middle of the room, which would visually reduce the space.
It would be better if the couch were placed in the top right corner of the plan. But then the wall next to the stairs would be the only sensible place for a TV.
This could be a bit awkward with the door in that spot.

Any ideas?
What do you think?

Thanks & regards

What we don't like so much here is that an L-shaped couch is drawn with the backrest in the middle of the room, which would visually make the space smaller. It would be better if the couch were placed in the top right corner. However, then the wall next to the stairs would be the only sensible place for a TV.

If an equation doesn't work out or produces unwanted solutions, I look for incorrect assumptions. My two suspects are "you have to have a TV" and "the seats must be connected in a rigid L shape." Remove at least one unnecessary condition, and the degree of freedom increases immensely.

L-sofa... Anyone have an idea? What do you think?

Two 2.5-seaters placed parallel opposite each other, small table in between.

Two parallel facing 2.5-seaters,

Or arranged arbitrarily otherwise: once the "L" at the head is sawed through, everything (also 90° again, but then no longer compulsory) is possible.

Our architect is currently still on vacation, so it is not yet clear whether the kitchen and couch area can be swapped.
Therefore, we are also considering the current plan in parallel


What we don't like here is that an L-shaped couch drawn like this has its back in the middle of the room, which would visually reduce the space.
It would be better if the couch were placed in the upper right corner of the room. But then the wall next to the stairs would be the only sensible place for a TV.
This could be somewhat inconvenient with the door in that spot.

Anyone have an idea?
What do you think?

Thanks & regards

We had the same problem (couch in the middle of the room). We then found the solution at friends’. In the middle we have a small partition wall (170 cm wide), on which the TV is mounted on one side. The couch stands 4 m away from the wall. To the left and right of the partition wall are passages of 150 cm and 200 cm respectively. On the other side of the partition wall is the dining area. Since we had seen it before and made it slightly more spacious ourselves, we like it.