Offer single-family house, 2 full floors, basement + 1 floor, what do you think?

We still have a balcony where we can also sit. We have now lived for 9 years in a penthouse apartment where we always had to go down 2 flights of stairs, that's not bad.

Hello, you are in the floor plan planning subforum, the completed questionnaire belongs there. If you were to fill it out, would it then say "most important and most exposed room should be the bathroom, child doesn’t matter"?

Regarding the width of the living room: you will not have the same sofa for the next 40 years. Get ready for most of them to be almost 3 meters wide. I see a chimney with you; a fireplace won’t fit there anymore. You have to calculate: plaster goes on top of the raw construction measurements. Baseboards prevent you from furnishing directly against the wall. Air has to circulate behind the sofa and cabinet anyway.

Regarding the quote: "that's not bad" would be a non-existent sentence for me in a new build that I’m having built. How will it look in 10 years? What do you have a garden for? Like older people here, not that old either :), no one wants to climb stairs anymore.

The biggest problem is not even sitting, but garden maintenance. On hot days, you have to go outside more often, and you quite like to use the commercial break for that. If you shuffle along the wall in the too narrow living room, the broken little toe plays an unpleasant role that slowly takes away your or your family's desire for the stairs. Hosting guests in the evening is also not easy. And the balcony isn’t really big. 4 people plus 2 kids… children’s birthday party or other celebrations on the terrace: not possible, unless you have catering come in.

I like the house from the outside, but I wouldn’t buy it. Reasons: terrace and garden are the first living room in summer, and for me not accessible from the living level like this. Balcony with the corner does not offer a substitute, as it is also built-in. The bathroom may be great, but at the expense of guest and child. The child will have a hole, seemingly half in the basement, and no light from October on. Chimney without use. The 3.70 width in the living room wouldn’t be a dealbreaker for me.

Quick look again: bedroom as a passage is bad regarding different wake-up times, pantry would be too long a way with shopping bags. Unused area in the middle common area, but many rooms are lacking. Guest area is really a joke, child not even west, rather northwest…

I would move the bedrooms up to the entrance level and give the child some light.

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Well, the child doesn't matter - with 15 sqm of space, the child certainly does matter. And besides, I myself grew up in a hillside house, with a room in the basement, and I didn't suffer any damage from it. On the contrary, in summer it was always pleasant for me, and my sister, with her room upstairs, migrated to my room.
Additionally, you could always swap the child's room and the office at some point if the child preferred to go upstairs. That would be no problem at all.
Guests - we almost never have guests who stay overnight with us. Since this is a room mainly intended for sleeping, we think it's completely sufficient. We don't give this room any priority!
If someone stays there once a year, they won't die from having only a small window to the outside at night while sleeping.

From experience, I wouldn't put the bedroom upstairs, because in summer it can simply get too hot depending on the situation. Downstairs rooms are always pleasantly cool, no matter what the weather is like outside. After 9 years in an attic apartment, we are a burned child... nothing beats a good sleep!

Living downstairs - definitely yes, but then with our terrain you always have to go up the stairs, and you always have to run up to the kitchen.
The living room is definitely good now; we painted over the fireplace, the plan is outdated. You have to imagine it without it. Our current sofa is 3 m wide, so we could arrange everything quite well.

Well, nothing is set in stone yet, we're going to rethink everything anyway and also see what the other construction companies offer us.

Please do not compare an older attic apartment with a new building. No heat or cold comes into the house here due to poor roof insulation. Not with today's energy saving regulations. If you have a window in the NW with a bay window in the West, this room is deprived of any sun that would normally provide comfort for three quarters of the year. In summer there is one hour in the evening. Instead, you plan the bathroom on the exposed SW side. You are contradicting yourself. Your bedroom has south-facing windows: it doesn't matter whether upstairs or downstairs. You either sweat there or the blinds are down. Who wants to sweat in the bathroom after showering? You don't have to justify yourself. You asked, you get answers to your questions. Of course, the guest room is not that important. But honestly: so many things don't fit here, and according to your arguments, one doesn't even know what you're aiming at, except maybe false flattery. But in sales, because the residents eventually notice that the planning has many flaws, these things come to light and seriously reduce the chances of selling. With good planning, a reasonably designed guest room may also be used as a second children's room. Edit: on a hillside location it is not cool downstairs! And yes: living/dining/kitchen downstairs so that you can actually use the garden. Maybe you should let your wife read it sometime ;)

And before any further misunderstandings about the benefits of rooms arise, please fill out the questionnaire!

I would at least swap the children's room and the bedroom: the guest room can serve as a dressing room. And if no guest room is needed anyway, the office should be sufficient.