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I especially miss sightlines.... When I enter the front door on the ground floor, I look at a staircase, not into the garden, not onto a terrace, I can’t even hang a nice picture :oops:

When I go into the bedroom on the upper floor, I also have a piece of wall opposite me. This applies to other rooms as well. I think the bedroom is too large, especially since there is also a dressing room.

What are you planning to do with the granny flat? Is it just for visitors? It somehow feels like it’s getting the best part of the house and looks onto your terrace? What reason is there, with this budget, to put up with that?

Exactly, that’s what I thought too. Also placing the bathroom in the granny flat practically in the living room... Imagine someone has to get from the bedroom to the toilet in the granny flat while there are guests :oops:

I also find the corner with the kitchen strange... a door next to an open entrance.... yes, it’s practical to get from the entrance to the kitchen on a short route, but like this? And why is the dining table offset? Is there any visual separation between the dining room and the living room? This small wall projection doesn’t seem suitable to me.

I can’t put it more precisely, but I miss the "spirit"... I wouldn’t be satisfied with the planning and would send the architect back on the sightlines issue again... The house and the budget are big enough to make something really great out of it, the architect really has to make an effort...

Sorry if this was too harsh ;)

Just follow along…. then it goes Bling :) ….

You can also overlook it sometimes. It is actually intended to be used in the next few years for parents-in-law and later possibly for an au pair and afterwards for the departure of the first child. So 100% family-related and therefore it also gets a nice little spot.

I especially miss sightlines.... When I come in through the front door on the ground floor, I look at a staircase, not the garden, not a terrace, I can’t even hang up a nice picture :oops:

When I go into the bedroom upstairs, there is also a piece of wall opposite. The same goes for other rooms. I think the bedroom is too big, especially since there is also a walk-in closet.

Exactly, that’s what I thought too. Also placing the bathroom in the granny flat basically in the living room... Imagine, someone in the granny flat has to go to the toilet from the bedroom and there are guests :oops:

I also find the corner with the kitchen weird... a door next to an open entrance... yes, it’s practical to get from the entrance to the kitchen in a short way, but like this? And why is the dining table offset like that? Is there any visual separation between dining room and living room? This small wall projection doesn’t seem suitable to me.

I can’t put it more precisely, but I’m missing the “spirit”... I wouldn’t be satisfied with the planning and would send the architect back to work on the sightlines again.... The house and the budget are big enough to make something really great out of it, the architect has to put in some real effort...

Sorry if this was too harsh ;)

No way! Please keep being that harsh – this is an extremely important and expensive project. Tear it apart for me :)

You pay attention to great details that I wouldn’t even think of.

- Ground floor staircase and wall: We had the idea to create a large window above the staircase so that you can see through from the hallway. Does this fix this point? Otherwise, do you think the staircase is completely out of place and everything needs to be reconsidered (impact on all floors)?

- Upper floor – path to the bedroom: I wanted to change this anyway. I don’t like that you have to walk through the walk-in closet. Instead, it would be possible to close the wall at the walk-in closet and open a corridor to the bedroom with a left view down to the ground floor (gallery). I understand the architect’s intention to give the bedroom the full front. But basically, the path would be as follows, right? Bedroom -> walk-in closet -> bathroom, correct? How could we represent that in the upper right?
Reduce the bedroom size in favor of the walk-in closet?

- Granny flat: That is indeed suboptimal. Do you, k-man, have another layout idea, or can you just sketch it out informally on a piece of paper in 30 seconds?

- Ground floor living area:

[*]Weird door: This is probably intended to allow easy access from the kitchen to the utility room. Should this door be closed instead and a door from the utility room to the kitchen be considered as an alternative?
[*]Offset dining table: No particular reason. Probably so that half the guests get the gallery view upwards?
[*]Visual separation: No visual separation between dining and living room is necessarily planned. We actually want to keep the space large and open

I would give the architect fewer details... tell him that you expect a good/inviting view when you come in. Whether he then relocates the stairs or solves it differently - he should make a proposal. I would do the same with all the other points.

We are also currently in the design phase (ok, slightly bigger) and we have given the architect a lot of freedom. Very good ideas have come out, for example a small family cloakroom... the family comes from the garage, guests enter through the entrance. The utility room has access from the stairs and from the kitchen, the study can become a granny flat, etc.

Sorry TE, I won't be able to say much about it, but I'm amazed at the price being asked here... my goodness... crazy

the back is great... something different. At the front, the entrance has more of a standard single-family house character. So when you open the door, the WOW effect is somehow missing. You look at a staircase... I'll dream a bit... you open the door and see a staircase that you can go up from both sides, meeting at the top. Kind of that American flair... and the front door more like a big double door... just like a villa :)

The staircase appears to have a maximum length of 370 cm and therefore does not fit the house at all, and since it is already tightly fitted, much of the floor plan becomes obsolete. Additional points of criticism are mentioned ... bedroom, gallery, kitchen location, corner constellation terrace with ancillary apartment. Moreover, I am once again missing a planned furnishing of the kitchen .. or if it is supposed to be like that, then I say, that is not proper kitchen ergonomics. Garage, site planning .. what about bicycles for apparently at least 6 people? Parking spaces, waste, etc. .. it is not an overall concept. Overall, many rooms have large square footage, but I absolutely lack a WOW factor.