New single-family house drawings

Hello house building friends,
would you be so kind as to take a look at our floor plans and elevations to see if anything catches your eye that could maybe be optimized further? Have we overlooked something or anything like that?
We are basically finished and would release the drawings as they are.

Oh, by the way, in one of the front views, you can see in red the only change we still have, which is that the roof will be carried through as an overhang and not made sloped, but straight..

Dimensions would be interesting.. how wide is the dressing room - does that even make sense? Wouldn't a wardrobe maybe be more sensible? The guest room will appear strange. Otherwise: the bathroom is, in my opinion, proportionally too large (larger than everything else...), the staircase is not that great, I think the balcony is used rather rarely, the gallery is not necessary either... better push through with that and make the children's rooms bigger, you'll get more out of that.

At first glance, these are just small things I would change.

On the upper floor, I would move the doors of the children's rooms a bit away from the wall, so that there is about 65 cm behind the door left for a wardrobe.

On the ground floor, I don't like the bathroom/office solution. I would leave out the L-extension at the office and give that space to the hallway. I would then make the entrance to the bathroom from above - where the L-extension of the office/guest room is now. This has the advantage that the guest does not have to walk around the corner and you do not have to close the front door first to get in or out of the bathroom. You could also have the two drawn-in wardrobes standing in the hallway.

Are you building with a basement? If not, I would still use the space under the stairs as a storage room.

Otherwise, I quite like the floor plan. I especially like the dressing room solution.

We will definitely reconsider the doors in the children's rooms, thanks for the tip!
Regarding the office, I have to say the room is mainly used as an office and we need space there for filing cabinets, which shouldn’t be in the hallway. We will have a sofa bed there where guests can sleep over. But that happens rather rarely; mainly it is an office. I don’t like the idea of the hallway becoming even bigger.

We do not have a basement. Do you mean we should make the space under the stairs a closed room? I’m a bit afraid that the hallway corner by the pantry might then become a dark corner because less light comes in!

Have you planned enough tall cabinets in the kitchen? It could get tight with the wardrobe, and those who are experienced in forums know that the staircase at the entrance door is criticized. Otherwise, I don’t see any errors or similar.

Regards, Yvonne

What exactly is wrong with the staircase at the entrance door? Because of dirt? Tall cabinets in the kitchen can be put anywhere, except of course at the window.

Hmm, maybe an idea: can’t you mirror the staircase? So put it on the other side of the hallway. That would have the advantage that the office would get bigger and the utility room smaller. The disadvantage would be that you would then have to walk through the hallway to the WC (from the guest room), but you already have to do that now. And you would probably have to reduce the living room size a bit so that there is still space for a door. It should also work with the upper floor.

We deliberately planned the utility room that big because we don’t have a basement and it is important to us to have decent space there.

All in all a solid floor plan. But a few thoughts on what I would personally change...
Ground floor
- Staircase in the dirty area at the front door (much-discussed here ). I would change the direction of travel and remove the storage room upstairs, instead create one under the stairs.
- Wardrobe too small for 4 people (I can say from experience ). I like Manu's idea to reduce the guest room and enlarge the hallway + WC access from the front side.
- It’s a pity that the living room, the couch, has no connection to the outside.
- Bay window with so many corners is not to my taste. Rectangular would personally suit me better, but that's a matter of taste.
- The kitchen looks a bit cramped with the counter. And from the cooking island you look at a wall. Looking outside would be nicer (e.g. to watch the children playing). I would plan that differently.
- How old are the children? Where do the stroller, car seat, etc. go?

Upper floor
- Move the children's room doors as Manu says.
- How wide is the dressing room?

The dressing room is 1.50m wide and 3.95m long. The planning of the kitchen has not really started yet, this is just an example so far. We probably won’t make a kitchen island at all. The stroller, car seat, etc. goes in the large utility room. We had also already considered making the children’s rooms bigger. But we want the entire family to have access to the balcony. Even if it is not used daily and often. We also don’t want the hallway to become such a small dark hole upstairs. And the "gallery" in front of the balcony can then be used by the children together as well. Are the children’s rooms that small?

That is an unfortunate dimension for the dressing room .. approximately 400 cm of wardrobe will fit there. As a single, I already have 300 cm of wardrobe.