New construction planning - single-family house 160 sqm without basement - floor plan, costs, etc..

We went to the architect with a self-created design that we adapted to the plot, which he almost took over one to one.

Very poor approach, the result speaks volumes...

In advance: For assessment, a site plan, cardinal directions, sections, etc. would also be necessary.

Ground floor: Entrance uninviting due to many doors, hardly any storage space, and despite the glazing on the entrance door, depending on the cardinal direction, not really bright. Hallway very dark. Living room maximally introverted, indoor-outdoor relationships extremely impaired, purpose of the bay window not apparent (also not on the upper floor),

Upper floor: Hallway dark, dressing-room corridor as a trapped space impractical, bathroom inefficient and dysfunctional. Children's bathroom missing, which would easily be possible at a reasonable price with efficient design.

=> An attempt was made to force a standard 08/15 design onto the plot, dreadful...

We have our clear favorite for execution, but we are legitimately still obtaining comparison offers.

Your planner lacked motivation and assertiveness, which phases of service have been completed so far?

WD

A children's bathroom is, I think, a matter of taste. Apart from that, I find the bathroom upstairs rather too big, maybe it can be planned better when you don't really know that you need the space.

Hi.
The floor plan was initially about the room layout. The exact placement of the sanitary facilities is still pending. I posted that somewhat prematurely on my part..

Everything has been considered in the cost planning, I have also reviewed the "list of incidental costs" again. For example, in my designation of the "secondary construction costs" amounting to 5k, all plot-related costs were no longer included or were already accounted for under "plot". By the way, the pure purchase price here in the 700-inhabitant village is 13€/sqm - the rest, to reach 35k here, relates to development, notary, land transfer tax, registration of mortgage, etc..

Hello Wanderdüne,
thank you for the constructive criticism. The positioning of the building structure has already been adapted exactly to the plot as we envisioned. The living room runs along the entire width on the south side - after exiting to the terrace, there is an exposed garden. The kitchen is on the west side facing the street and driveway. The children's rooms are on the east side with morning sun.
Regarding the light entering the hallway, a fixed window 51*212 is planned at the stairs' end. This likely will not flood the hallway (from the north) with light, but the apartment's final door from the hallway to the vestibule is completely made of glass, and the front door with side panel also has a large glass section - from the vestibule's side towards the hallway, it should therefore be bright enough. As an option, the living room door to the hallway could also have a glass panel, providing additional light from the south side.

I find a completely open layout in addition to the hallway rather impractical in winter at 10 degrees cold if I have to heat the hallway as well. With the (if needed) open sliding door between kitchen and living room, you would have a 57 sqm "L" along the entire south and west sides - that is open enough for us.

What is the purpose of such bay windows in principle? On one hand, they first have an aesthetic background in the overall view. On the upper floor, you can accommodate the dressing room without a sloping roof. The fact that the dressing room is "enclosed," with the only access from the master bedroom, is intentional. We do not want a separate children's bathroom - to avoid congestion in the bathroom as the children grow, the guest bathroom on the ground floor with a separate shower is planned. 3 toilets and 1 urinal for 4 people is really too many.

Regarding storage space: The 7.5 sqm vestibule should at least offer enough space for a wardrobe. Cleaning supplies, vacuum cleaner, etc. find their place under the stairs.

No service phases have been completed yet. We are still at the very beginning of the planning and discovery phase.. I can also completely discard the design..

At first glance, I also thought, "pretty good floor plan." On the second look, however, I noticed a few things.
The nice windbreak, which is supposed to serve as a wardrobe, offers far too little for the size. I would swap the front door and the glass element here to have at least some storage space on the wall towards the garage.
The hallway area on the ground floor suffers from acute lack of light. This could be somewhat remedied with glass doors.
I don’t find the guest WC with the shower very inviting either. If anything, the shower should be moved to the back area or somehow/somewhere create a niche.
The living room with the bay window is nice, but the bay window doesn’t bring you anything here except higher costs. For what? For living space that you can’t use sensibly either on the ground floor or upstairs? That would be too expensive for me.
The walk-in closet upstairs isn’t really one - at most a walk-in cupboard. And the little extension here from the bay window will remain an unused corner because you can’t do anything with it. And what is the window supposed to illuminate? The opposite wall? This corner of the gable is also not really usable in the children’s room. You can’t even fit a desk in front of it. What do you want to put there?
My tip: make the third gable one meter smaller and rather enlarge the two areas to the left and right of the third gable. Then you can create nice rooms upstairs to the left and right of the third gable, and you can use the gable as a wardrobe.
The upstairs hallway is also not very nice and also far too dark.
I won’t say anything about the bathroom for now, as the final planning is still missing here.

The windbreak was originally intended solely as an entrance/wardrobe and a connecting part between the garage and the house in the first draft. The utility room behind it was only placed there after the basement fell victim to the red pen. Since a door to the utility room was now obviously necessary, the nice large wardrobe on the back wall opposite the entrance door had to give way. So now admittedly there is a 7.5 sqm WF with doors on 3 sides and hardly any free space for the actual purpose of storing clothes. OK.

The bay window was initially intended as an optical highlight on the exterior, then of course the goal was to use it sensibly on the inside. The living room is correspondingly enlarged and in the DG the gable was then divided into a "dressing room" and additionally a children's room. Here too: criticism taken into account. Seems ambitious and "overbuilt." However, such a "narrow" transverse gable no longer looks right in the overall proportions of the house...

The following floor plan just came into my hands (see [DG] in the attached picture). The hallway upstairs would become a "gallery", sufficiently bright through the skylight. The room under the gable could be used as a "real" dressing room - no longer "trapped" either, since it is centrally accessible from the gallery. The only disadvantage here would be that the children's rooms would become smaller...