Newly built single-family house approx. 220 sqm, please provide comments on the floor plan

No, for myself.

I didn't want to insist on that much fidelity to the original quote here. Even my hope has its limits at times.

I can't imagine living in such a house for more than 15 years. My wife just said that she can imagine that.

Is your wife a fan of Zsa Zsa Gabor?

The plan is to live in the house for about 15-20 years and then sell it.

We are now 40 and 41, the children are 14. How long am I supposed to live in such a big house? Between 55 and 60 we don’t want to primarily take care of a big house.

That will in all likelihood be the case no earlier than in 10 years,

We have the trait of not forming an emotional attachment to a few piled-up stones

We don’t need a guest room because we don’t want overnight guests.

we are 40 and 41. I can’t imagine living in such a house for longer than 15 years. My wife said just now that she can already imagine it

While reading, I get the feeling of a technically rigidly scheduled life plan; superficially foresighted and casual, but ultimately too smooth and therefore precisely not foresighted in planning; not without reason the wife has already intervened with a correction. We ourselves have lived in various places and very different living situations; nevertheless, we have always arranged things so that it could have lasted permanently, even if at some point we consciously decided otherwise again, since today we don’t know what we will be able to manage tomorrow.

How could one possibly know now, when planning a house, whether oneself, the wife, or one of the children will not still develop an emotional attachment to this new house and therefore cannot sell it in 10-15 years as originally planned? How could one know today whether oneself and/or all family members will still be physically and energetically able in 10-15 years to carry out a new house sale/purchase for the fourth time already; not to mention the unknown constantly changing real estate market.

The striking categorical rejection of any overnight guests is of course none of my business but since it is explicitly mentioned twice here, I do wonder how rigidly the lives of all family members have been planned, when we all should know that life usually plays unknown tricks on us and we therefore have no idea how our lives and those of our family members will develop; and... the life of our teenagers often performs wild somersaults anyway.

You basically write that your house will definitely be sold in 10-15 years, period-exclamation mark, that’s my lifestyle and not like all those rustic hicks who grieve over every stone and paint garden gnomes, that emotional mush. After all, this is already my twelfth—uhm… third house and I know how it goes. Sorry – but that’s how it comes across to me when I read it. For me, but above all also for all other family members, to now and irrevocably fix the rule that in the next 15 years there can never be an overnight guest in the family home (not even due to illness-related necessity, family problems, wife’s friend, children’s friends, changes in life, etc.) would for me mean exactly the opposite of foresighted planning and freedom in thinking.

Therefore, with such a large house, I would definitely consider possible or so far unimaginable changes in the life of the family.

, I partially see it differently. I wouldn’t keep a guest room specifically if I’m not the type for overnight guests. In case of emergency, there’s always a place to be found. Possible, unimaginable changes are not something I would always want to consider. Especially here, it is often written not to plan for every eventuality. Particularly if the homeowners (and both should agree on this) are not prone to sentimentality and would sell the house anyway.

Otherwise, I can agree that the house feels too big downstairs. Especially the kitchen I don’t find ergonomic.

, I partly disagree. I wouldn’t keep a guest room especially if I’m not the type for overnight guests. In case of emergency, there’s always a place to find anyway. I also wouldn’t always want to consider possible, unimaginable changes. Especially here it is often written not to plan for every eventuality.

Well, I do hope that you see things differently from me in my head! Of course, you don’t have to necessarily keep a guest room and you help yourself depending on the situation; not least of all that is usually why you have your own house, to be able to live more flexibly sometimes. I wasn’t talking about visit yes/no, but rather the categorical exclusion, practically by boss decision, of something that you can’t really foresee or plan in a family (including growing teenagers). In the life philosophy hinted at here as clearly planned out, I personally simply miss the option—FOR OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS—to decide independently and completely differently, that sounds too rigid to me, as do the other descriptions of how everything will be in the future (for him AND family members), simply because it has always been that way so far (put bluntly).

the homeowners (and both should agree on this)

Yep... that’s the point! ...and that’s probably still missing

not tending to sentimentality and then selling the house anyway.

I’m probably an HWAO person (not to be confused with HWG) and never had problems with moving house or apartment. But I don’t quite like this slightly derogatory evaluation of someone who just likes to build their house and their castle, even if they’re happy about a garden gnome (someone like that certainly wouldn’t start a world war). Therefore, I find this expression of “emotional attachment to overlapping stones” condescending and thus inappropriate, because I can very well understand that someone is attached to their house, even though I myself was always able to detach easily. My frequent experience is that people who see themselves in some areas as cool and progressive (and I explicitly do NOT mean the OP) simply and just as fervently run after other gods, be it the god of horsepower, the god of suntan, or FC Bayern. And... I could find nothing necessarily negative about sentimentality; if only we had more of it nowadays alongside all these successful self-optimizers and go-getters. I like sentimental homebuilders—

Even if you describe in great detail that the OP is practically a domestic tyrant who has the others under his thumb, I do not read anywhere that a guest room was excluded here "by boss decision." And honestly, I find that a bit tiring to read because a) it is simply an interpretation that then b) is blown out of proportion at length. The OP can no longer derive any benefit from that. With that, I am ending the topic for myself.

Exactly......that’s why everyone does exactly as they want and since I have a lot of time, I also like to write at length...as I want - by the way, there is in my opinion no obligation to read or comment! By the way, we all largely interpret supposed things in an internet forum and often repeat wisdoms that would not necessarily withstand a neutral-objective examination; you just like me and others! If I could not also often write something with a wink in my free time in a forum and receive it back gladly, then where else? Consider it discussed