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There remain 670 cm width for the pure living/dining/cooking area. No technology, no wardrobe etc. have to be accommodated there. When I look at my dining/kitchen room with 7x4.10 m, I find 670 cm width already very generous.

But your house does not have >300 sqm living space with an investment level between 1.5 and 2 million. I would be more demanding if I were to invest that much money, but I have already seen enough villas from the inside to know that it can be better, more interesting – and of course also much worse. ;)

That nicely shows why I am not at all satisfied with the draft.

I noticed the many walls while drawing… in the end, the kitchen, living room, and dining area each stand separately.

There are 670 cm of width left for the pure living/dining/cooking area. No technology, no wardrobe, etc. need to be accommodated there. When I look at my dining/kitchen room with 7x4.10 m, I find 670 cm in width quite generous.

The total area already offers a lot. I see it relaxed as well. I would even say that the granny flat could get another 30-50 cm.

Unfortunately, there was the first “planning shock” today. Our architect informed us of two pieces of news that he learned in consultation with the building authority. 1) The flood protection is apparently not as trivial as assumed. We will receive feedback in the coming days on how the planning has to be changed. In the worst case, we may have to raise the ground floor by up to 60 cm - that would be a disaster for me. Regarding this point, I really wonder why this is only being recognized now. 2) A brief review: We chose the other option with only 1 full floor instead of 2 allowed full floors, but with 40% more floor space. This made the granny flat fit better into the ground floor concept. Afterwards, our architect experimented with the roof pitches and in the process gained the originally not intended attic (2 rooms with a total of 38 m2). Based on this, we have now virtually finalized the room concept aside from the last feedback from you. Now today’s shock: The building authority has denied us the roof idea because they see the roof as a full floor. Now we lose the 38 m2. Above all, the office space hurts. But instead of expanding the upper floor with one room now, we tend to eliminate 1 children's room and put the 2nd office on the upper floor. The children, who do not exist yet, will remain in one children's room for the time being and when the time comes, an office will move into the guest room in the basement... We do not want to give up our jewel “gallery.” Do you have any creative ideas?

We don't want to do without our little gem "gallery".

I can understand that. Still, you should take a look at houses without a gallery. The ones with galleries are nice on Instagram, the ones without galleries are those that make your heart melt because the interior is so beautiful. With the gallery, the warm feeling is limited. It's modern living, but not better because of that. If you otherwise plan for sufficient daylight, it's even nicer without a gallery. If you are aware of that and still want a gallery, then go ahead. Then it doesn't hurt as much if the floor plan has to subordinate to it. But if the gallery is so important that you can't see anything else, then you should take a step back and have a look. If you ever drop dead, the gallery won't be what you remember gratefully (I suppose). Here in the forum, there is a very nice house with shutters and wonderfully furnished. No one calls for a gallery there. Because it's so tasteful and beautifully furnished. Unfortunately, I don't remember whose house that is.

Wow! The architect surely does not expect any compensation for the planning attempts made so far, does he?

The basics of the B-plan as well as other basic investigations ([mEA] including required flood protection) are surely the top priority and have not been carried out or at least only extremely insufficiently.

Wow! Hopefully the architect does not expect any compensation for the planning attempts made so far?

The basics of the development plan as well as other basic investigations (mEA required flood protection is also included) are surely of utmost importance and have either not been done or have been done at best very inadequately

Honestly, I am very curious about what will come back. I would definitely not accept that.

The architect has already pointed out to me that we have to consider flood protection, but he cannot expect me, an amateur, to draw the right conclusions from that, can he? That it could suddenly be about a 60cm increase is madness. I cannot even imagine how our plan will hold if that happens. I could still accept a marginal restriction like 10cm.