New single-family house in southern Germany

I also like number 3 best, especially the adaptation to the needs of the OP with the existing furniture, some places already have furniture in front of the windows, a children's room must be 10sqm and can be much bigger

... On the other hand - please don't forget that today's youth generations do not tend to leave the "Hotel Mama" nest - I dare say, hoping that the brats will voluntarily move out when they grow up if they get 21 sqm ...

That's a thesis I like! I draw the conclusion from it: If I build with children at an age when I can already estimate that I want to get rid of them early, I plan an extra small children's room. Great! When I was a small child, I only had 4 sqm! With bed, desk + chair and wardrobe.

However, the house was already there when I arrived, so I can't conclude that my parents wanted to get rid of me particularly early :cool:

However, the house was already there when I came, so I can't conclude that my parents wanted to get rid of me especially early :cool:

yes, otherwise they might have moved? :p

I only had 4m² when I was a small child!

Unimaginable.....YOU are actually still alive? You can't look at such things in general and tie them to "standards," from the basement to the children's room. It has to fit individually, unfortunately I often read "standard" nonsense and way too little individuality, which is at least one reason why I am building myself. I have a Great Dane and go through the mud with her daily, children's screaming annoys me or children's screaming touches my heart, I like to listen to music alone, my partner likes to smoke her hookah in the evening and listens to marching music......etc. pp. This is generally felt to show up way too little here. How do I live, what makes my life, do I also like distance from my partner or are we like a bundle 24/7. A few days ago, asked exactly that in another thread..... but got zero answers except that TE needs eating/living/sleeping/working/floor heating/heat pump and since 2020 everyone really needs home office....yawn. It often goes unmentioned that of course KNX (because of the scenes...), photovoltaics (a bit of being bio), KfW house...... (eco... respectively state coal). But all that really says NOTHING about a house in which I can feel comfortable as an individual person, but about the other "stuff" 70% is talked about..... and where you still get subsidies. Preferences, habits of life, etc. that make my life nice-----not a trace. I read that I am building a KfW55 house..... ok... and what does that tell me? Or a city villa...... ok... and now? Who are you, what do you like, how does your life take place. Even reading about the same high-tech cooking hob or an equally cooking football field with of course a lowered chassis, although not many like and cook well...... all that repeats itself. You can have it all but where are the different people with their strange peculiarities that you are allowed to live at home and that make us who we are? I have the feeling that the more possibilities and Pinterest there are, the more people keep locking into the same thing out of herd instinct, and certainly not because of costs, because it does not necessarily have to be more expensive if you design it individually, maybe even cheaper. From this point of view, it is almost irrelevant whether the children's room has 10 or 30 sqm, it is about the content of the room AND!!! especially about the surroundings! A psychopath can become one in a 50 sqm children's room just as well as in an 8 sqm with curtain, although I would rather expect that from the 50 sqm type. I can't see the point of building a child 20 sqm and limiting the entire living space to 37 sqm and snipping centimeters off every corner. Maybe then I simply won't build at all.

However, the house was already there when I came, so I can't conclude that my parents wanted to get rid of me particularly early.

"Modern" (or rather: today's) parents tend rather to keep their children with them as long as possible or not to lose access. When I hear today what parents want to know about their children, it horrifies me. A well-known child psychologist said about this: I had a great childhood myself – my parents never had time!

I myself have never found a show home that I would have built exactly the same way.

It was less about the specific floor plan with the show home (although the one with the basement would fit quite well) and more about the question of quality. You would assume that they put effort into the show home, so cracks are naturally a bit of a big question mark. Regarding how we live... the current situation isn’t useful anyway and the future one is a question. A year ago we were rarely at home. Instead, we went climbing three times a week, plus sauna all year long, other sports or hobbies. That will certainly change with a child, so statements based on that are quite difficult. And on top of that, a two-room apartment in a block of flats hardly motivates you to be at home. What I can say for sure is that home office is not just a 2020 fad. We are moving a bit further away so we can still afford something nice, and that only makes sense if I don’t go to the office every day but only 1-2 times a week. Otherwise, so much life time is spent in the car that I wouldn’t move away. Currently, I’m in the comfortable situation that it takes me 10 minutes door-to-door by bike. And for my girlfriend, who is a teacher, it is such that she naturally also works a lot from home and preferably not only in the living room. However, this is not something that absolutely has to be if, for example, guests come during the autumn holidays for a few days during the week. That’s why the second study is intended to be used for multiple purposes as a guest room and reserve children's room (a second one is not planned, but you never know). On the topic of children's room size versus common room size... in the end, every plan we have has the problem that we need much more space downstairs than upstairs. What you assign to the study ends up missing in the common room, and if you make the house a bit bigger downstairs, you get more space upstairs as well. How big that specifically becomes is of course a matter of roof pitch and knee wall, but the floor area will definitely be larger. If I didn’t have to take into account that everything has to come together in one house, I wouldn’t take more than 15sqm for the children's rooms, but the large children’s room simply results automatically in this example with the full floor variant. The half-floor variant rather achieves this target size, but then the study/guest room is rather too big.

maybe it helps you to see the living space as the family room and all the children’s and work/guest rooms are for retreat and therefore not necessarily very large. 90% of daily activities take place in the living space, living, cooking, playing, eating (also with 15 guests), extended in summer by the terrace. When we thought this through, we were able to allocate the room sizes better