Opinions on floor plan design (Iso views, floor plans, development plan)

I don't like the relationship between Elternpalast and Kinderteil. The sleeping and clothing area should have as much space as 2 children need for sleeping, playing, and learning. The family bathroom should be given a hallway door. The kitchen is impractical and children can skate between eating and cooking. The kitchen should be as far away from the terrace as possible.

Hmm, I don’t know if removing the office will help. There is so much wasted space in the kitchen and dining area that can’t be used for anything. I also find the children's rooms quite small. The distance between the couch and TV is quite large. Is the kitchen supposed to be furnished like this? Long walking distances, e.g. from the cooktop to the sink. Is the storage room on the ground floor a wardrobe?

Yes, I'm also not sure if the kitchen and dining room need to be that big. I just see that when we are with acquaintances and friends, we spend 95% of the time in the dining/living area. That's why I wanted to make this area spacious. We have also seen houses where the hallway and the office are very large, but the living/dining room is rather small, which we don't like at all. I don't live in the hallway and not in the office either; I spend relatively little time there.

On the subject of children's rooms, we are quite selfish (we don't have any yet) and treat ourselves to a nice big parents' area. And the children have their own bathroom, which not everyone has. How many square meters would you allocate for the children's rooms? Would you give up the children's bathroom for that?

The distance to the TV is the same in our rental apartment now, about 5m, and the 42" TV is already quite far away, you're right about that.

We just like it very spacious and open in the rooms we mainly use. We often have visits from our large families and sometimes cook for five people on the weekend or so. We already get in each other's way now.

The room on the ground floor is a pantry/storage room, so it has no window (which fits well because of the garage). I wouldn't swap it, otherwise the small toilet has no windows (= no-go). The coat closet is in the niche next to the front door. At least about 1.5m long.

But we are still undecided whether the kitchen is not significantly too big and whether the children's rooms are not too small.

Best regards

Here is the version with the office

We now also have the distance to the TV in the rental apartment, about 5m, and the 42" TV is already quite far away, you're right. Best regards

That's not true, today we even have 6.5m in the living room from wall to wall, so 5m should be okay.

Here is a version in which I removed the children's bathroom, shifted the staircase so that the children's rooms are the same size, as a result the living room becomes smaller and the pantry as well as the small toilet become larger.