Opinions and tips on our floor plan

You have a window in the attic. How do you get up to the attic? The stairs end on the 1st floor, right? If not, is the passage upwards a bit narrow? Is the 1st floor completely over 2 meters? The slope looks as if the bed in the bedroom is below the 1m limit?

The dressing room has the most valuable place in the house (or at least on the upper floor). It only contains clothes and a person stays there for about 5 minutes a day. Can't you at least grant a dormer to one children's room?

Hi, I would also consider whether you should change the entrance area. A shower on the ground floor doesn't really make sense, maybe rather a guest room including shower in the basement. Use the space you gain on the ground floor for a slightly larger wardrobe/entrance area. What always makes me happy on the first floor in our new house is that I have a very small storage room for towels, bed linen, shower gel, etc. I can put everything in there and I don't have to go down to the basement first. I find the storage room in the kitchen good, but not the two tall cabinets. The time of tall cabinets is also over now. Especially in "open plan kitchens." I also don't find the restless windows very well designed. Topic big bathroom. You have a dead space next to the toilet. If you are "shower people," move the shower and make it bigger. I could get annoyed every day because we have a lot of space around the toilet that I would have preferred to have more in the shower. Consider putting the toilet where the shower is now, placing the bathtub on the opposite side, and putting the shower where the bathtub is now. Floor-to-ceiling with a glass panel as a partition, no door or wall. I'm looking forward to what will come out soon... oh yes, what do you think about some kind of "roof terrace" on the garage?

You have a window in the attic. How do you get up to the attic? The stairs end on the first floor, right? If not, is the passage up a bit narrow? Is the first floor completely over 2 meters? The slope looks like the bed in the bedroom is below the 1m limit?

I’m guessing now it’s a pull-down attic ladder, but true, it’s not yet shown on the plan. Attached is the section...

The walk-in closet has the most valuable place in the house (or at least on the first floor). Yet only clothes hang in there and a person stays in there for about 5 minutes per day. Can’t you at least give one of the children’s rooms the dormer?

And then there will be fights among the kids about who gets the nicer room...

Morning, I would also consider changing the entrance area. A shower on the ground floor actually makes no sense, maybe rather a guestroom including shower in the basement. Use the space you gain on the ground floor for a slightly larger wardrobe/entrance area.

Interesting thought, but we actually wanted to avoid 3 bathrooms. And just one shower, e.g. in the utility room, I would find uncomfortable.

I like the storage room in the kitchen, but not the two tall cabinets. The era of tall cabinets is over nowadays, especially in "open plan kitchens".

As mentioned above, the kitchen already exists and will simply be extended.

Regarding the large bathroom: You have a dead space next to the toilet. If you are "shower people," move the shower and make it bigger. I could get annoyed every day because we have a lot of space around the toilet that I would have preferred to have more in the shower. Consider putting the toilet where the shower is now, placing the bathtub on the opposite side, and putting the shower where the bathtub is now. Floor-to-ceiling with a glass partition, no door or wall.

The idea sounds interesting. But wouldn’t you then have dead space in the shower due to the slope that you can’t use? We had considered filling the "dead" corner behind the toilet with a shelf. To store towels, etc.

Oh yes, what do you think of some kind of "roof terrace" on the garage?

1. It is not permitted by the development plan, and 2. it probably wouldn’t be used anyway.

Why unfortunately? Too standard? Too problematic?

A design is always the result of all requirements (client wishes, legal aspects, plot requirements, budget, etc.) and their implementation. The present floor plan has been seen many times before. That doesn't necessarily mean it's bad, but it has weaknesses that cannot be explained by the fact that the floor plan has to fit every situation, and that is not good.

Yes, kind of like that is what we plan to do anyway.

Also regarding kitchen and planning:

Then plan it that way from the start!
Your pantry has a raw structural measurement of 1.01 m, minus plaster and space for the sliding door, leaving just over 90 cm. How deep is the shelf? In a pantry rather 40 cm than 30, leaving a maximum of just over 60 cm, cozy...
But you can also plan the entrance area together with the kitchen. Then you have a niche in the hallway for a wardrobe, depth 0.65, then the wall 0.24, then a kitchen unit 0.6, then a walkway 1.1, then a cooking island 0.9, again a walkway 0.9, outer wall. That adds up, otherwise plan differently. Structural engineering should also be feasible, etc. At the same time, plan sight lines, e.g., where should the main chopping area be so that at a window at point X you have the view towards Z.

None of that can a catalog floor plan provide; but you must know beforehand, e.g., what kind of kitchen you want, etc.

An open dressing room with possible disorder would bother me more than enclosed in its own room. Would there be possibilities to change the doors?

But that is not the choice decision.
You can design dressing rooms so that the bedroom is only used for sleeping, and the person dressing does not disturb the sleeper.

WD

And then there's a fight among the kids about who gets the nicer room...

Well, for me personally that's still no reason to give the best room to the clothes.

For my two siblings and me, there were three very different rooms in our parents' house. Every 2 to 3 years, depending on mood, we simply rearranged or, as we grew up, changing needs naturally suggested a change. For example, the eldest got the somewhat secluded room in the attic. It was never a problem and brought variety.