Newly built single-family house approx. 220 sqm, 2nd design city villa

T

I think it's good that you plan a lot of wardrobe space. I like the way it's planned less. The narrow corridor in front causes people to block each other and creates congestion.

Yes, a lot of wardrobe space is good. I initially wanted to praise this corner of the house as well, until I thought that some changes are needed here too (shortening the wardrobe plus wardrobe room). Ultimately, the utility room is simply too small; laundry either has to be carried in front of the garage or around the stairs through the house to dry (i.e., the laundry that cannot go in the dryer).

To be a bit more constructive: Children's rooms belong on the south and west side, if possible. If I look at the parents' area alone and know that an office is still missing, then I rather see the bathroom as an office, the dressing room as a bathroom, and the bedroom integrates the dressing room. Due to the orientation, I see a larger window front in the kitchen. If you rotate the island here by 90 degrees and add a table extension to it, it creates a benefit. There is enough ironing space, just not in the utility room. To capture enough sun from the south that reaches the living rooms, the house is too deep. The balcony looks like a privacy-protected exit in a condominium in a big city. Instead, I would plan a utility room on the upper floor.

I really like the upper floor! Unfortunately, I find too little space on the ground floor to hang laundry. Otherwise, I don’t think children’s rooms necessarily have to face south or west, and I also don’t think a house is only ideally planned if few open spaces are created. Very often here, personal taste is regarded as "law"!

too much space with too little use - or in other words: if you have so much space, you could also use it profitably. I don’t see that here.

The kitchen/dining area situation is a disaster - sorry. If there is an island, it should make sense. Here it doesn’t. This is a kitchen torn into three parts (you can imagine the walking routes) without charm or purpose. The small dining area would probably really be better replaced by a counter solution (and that is coming from someone who generally finds counters in the kitchen silly).

What do you need the ballroom in the bedroom for? At first I thought the dressing room would go there, but no, that still exists. Should it become an office? As part of the bedroom? I wouldn’t want that. You have enough space, if an office, then please a separate room. I don’t want to look at a fully packed desk before going to bed and have the thoughts about what I have to work on tomorrow as a little reminder. A desk in the bedroom in a small apartment or smaller house, where otherwise there is no space for a quieter workspace - okay. But here???
Or should the area have another function?

The small balcony upstairs: when should that be used? For the cigarette afterwards??? And then through the dressing room???
If you had a sauna upstairs in the bathroom, then okay, as an option to get some fresh air after the sauna session (but even then: through the dressing room???), but as it is???

And even if Alessandro sees it differently: a bedroom in the south and the child in the north I find suboptimal. Especially considering that the place will probably be sold after the children move out. So then you will probably arrange a new house/apartment for the cozy togetherness anyway. So I don’t need the cream of the crop as a bedroom now, do I?
If you say: well, the kids will leave the house someday and then we would like to have the fancy and comfortable bedroom - fine, I can understand that (I would probably realize that through a room switch, but whatever). But here?

Overall: no, not good, I think. And since the thing will be sold again in a few years, I would also say: as planned, rather hard to sell. (I wouldn’t want to pay so many useless square meters)

that is all personal taste. I find it somehow "weird" to call the kitchen design a disaster. Especially when I look at yours or ypg's house and compare it with TS's design, they really can't match. TS must have thought it through and gone through the space and walking paths. Also, the current kitchen is probably similarly laid out and TS likes it (if I remember correctly). -when I think of my youth, I would have immediately swapped a south bedroom for a north bedroom. I prefer to do my homework in somewhat less natural light than with permanently closed blinds/shutters due to sunlight and heat and artificial light. -I personally don't find an office in the bedroom wrong, even if the size of the house would allow for a separate room. Many also use an extra office as a guest room. Normally there are many personal and confidential documents in the office. I wouldn't want to have those in the guest room. It would bother me if my bedroom or bed directly adjoined a children's room. Of course the forum is there to discuss the designs and layouts. I just don't like that sometimes many things are demonized due to personal opinion. In principle, the layout works quite well. And if TS prefers to hang laundry in the living room, the utility room is big enough too.

or if I look at ypg´s house and compare it with the TS’s draft, it actually can’t match

Strange comparison ... comparing a 2-person house with a 4-person house, where in the former there is a practical 50sqm all-purpose room plus a study on the ground floor in just under 10 x 10. However, I would fundamentally not call my house the optimum (of all) either – I have always said in this forum over the years that I would do some things differently. Nevertheless, in detail, many things have been planned more suitably in our case in comparison, with (in my eyes) a bit more refinement, without having had a large financial expenditure.