New floor plan for single-family house - your opinions

Development plan/restrictions
Size of the plot: 931 sqm
Slope: yes
Development according to § 34 Building Code
Number of parking spaces: 4 (two separate and two in front of the garage)
Number of storeys: basement and ground floor
Roof type: hipped roof 22 degrees
Style: classic
Orientation: south/west

Client requirements
Basement: yes, since it is a sloping plot
Storeys: 2
Number of people: 3 adults and two children: 3 months and almost 3 years
Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor
Office: family use in guest room and an additional room for home office
Overnight guests per year: 5
Open architecture
Conservative and/or modern construction style
Open kitchen with half kitchen island
Number of dining seats: 6-8
Fireplace: yes
Balcony: yes, later terrace on the south side on the roof of the planned prefabricated garage
Garage: double garage as a prefabricated garage directly adjacent

House design
Who designed it:
- Architect
What is especially liked? the large living/dining/kitchen area
What is disliked? possibly the hallways
Price estimate according to architect/planner: approx. 350K
Preferred heating technology: heat pump

Hello dear forum,

we are now presenting our planned house and would be grateful if you could give us a few honest opinions about it. We are basically very satisfied and have by now submitted the building application. But maybe there is still something we don’t see.

The ground floor (or also basement) will stand completely free at the front, so that we want to enter the house at ground level or drive through the garage. The remaining sides will partly disappear into the slope.

The two smaller children’s rooms on the upper floor are planned for the children’s first years. When they are older, they should move to the ground floor. There are the two large rooms.

Please do not take the furniture layout too seriously. This does not play a role here at first.

Kind regards and many thanks!!!

I would really dislike that I can only go out onto a balcony from my living room....

Very many doors in the entrance area, but somehow no space for a wardrobe. In the upstairs bathroom, you have to pass between the shower partition and the washbasin every time, it looks very tight.

And for 36 people + 2 children, it would be too cramped for me ;)

Anzahl der Personen: 36 sowie zwei Kinder: 3 Monate und fast 3

Hmm, I am also very reserved when I read that the plan is supposed to be final. I would basically have arranged the living/dining area with kitchen in the basement and placed the bedrooms upstairs. Or planned a split-level variant. For me, there is nothing better than going out to the garden on one level. Everything else always feels like an apartment to me.

Regards

So... for 214 sqm (+attic) you only have 10% more actual living space than we do with 125 sqm.

So I see an incredible amount of room for improvement and optimization. Writing it all down on the go is unfortunately a bit much, but it doesn’t really make much sense either, because the short version is: Tear everything down and start anew.

I can’t believe this is supposed to come from a motivated architect.

2x16m² rooms for working and guests but the children get 12m² tucked away ? somehow disproportionate ;)