Opinions on our basic floor plan design wanted

You go to the car sticker maker, who will put a nice privacy film on it, patterned if you like, and there you have your privacy.

Exactly that is what I wanted to avoid.....Want to be able to look out of the window while bathing.

Then take your first draft, replace KZ NW with Bad SE, and you look out the bathroom to the west, have the washing machine next door, and the child has the morning sun....

No is right about the built-in wardrobe situation and other things, as it is now I actually quite like it, the bedroom and bathroom will be swapped and I am still considering whether to maybe put the kitchen in the northwest corner where the living room is now..... By the way, the open spaces in the upper floor hallway will be filled with bookshelves in case anyone thinks that would be a waste of space.

Quick-shot plans usually have extremely many errors because the focus is no longer on a good design.

Well, it’s not really a quick-shot plan, but rather a quick-shot revision...

My plan is just my electronic "paper sketch" so that I can better imagine how it should and might turn out.

... that’s also how I understood the drawings.

But you see: when concrete measurements are already included in a drawing, and due to the "professional" drawing style details already look finalized, the sketch is taken as gospel truth and is critically scrutinized accordingly.

Now, not everyone can express themselves well in doodle drawings; some people find computer painting easier. For that, I would still take a painting program—the architect doesn’t need to be able to import these files anyway.

At the current stage of - let me say - "wandering around" (because between the two shown drafts you have quite drastically reshuffled the mass distribution), I feel similar to ; I would feel more hindered by the (deceptive or pseudo-) detailedness and would rather play in the preliminary design mode without concrete scale.

The changes are initially a bit difficult for me to follow because, apart from two full floors, a shallow gable roof with a clear ridge axis, and drastic window format jumps, it is basically a new house rather than an "old" design with repaired details.

Of course, I already found the next one: at the first step, you can really stub your toes or ankles on the way to and from the cloakroom.

And I have to agree with : the open kitchen also has a significant downside that spoils the coziness—namely the view from the sofa to the dishes to be washed. On TV, cooking shows have assistant directors who remove dirty bowls from the shot now and then. Those are missing at home (bitterly).

I would proceed as follows, for example: initially draw windows all the same size, just as position markers. Then I would classify them into B (lighting windows) and A (view windows). Then switch to the elevation and balance the formats there.

I would be exact with elements that have "explosive potential" (like the staircase, where miscalculations lead to many things around it being thrown into the trash).

Next "hard islands" in the design would be things like the kitchen unit, or also the views (landscape and bathtub view) to dimension and position.

And all this in a program that allows you to remain for all lower priority details for a while in the wireframe model without dimensions. If necessary, create several separate plans (stairs, kitchen) instead of the entire house at once.

Otherwise, every change triggers an avalanche, and the countless drafts do not subside.

I think the stage of wandering around is already over for us, of course this design is a completely different house, but what you couldn't know is that this house was already on the radar right at the beginning and was only changed again through countless impressions you gain..... and I can learn, the "old" design was practically optimized to death by me until I showed it to you for the first time yesterday. So I hope that the original plan is probably the better alternative after all..... between this first plan on which the current one is based and yesterday's plan there are a lot of intermediate results......

The staircase should actually be as (we) wanted now, the kitchen fits as well and with this plan you simply don't have the view from the living room into the kitchen since the living room is located in the northwest corner. An advantage for us remains the possible access to the west terrace between the dining area and the living room. From the kitchen you can nicely look out onto the south terrace into the herb garden.....

I also like the recommendation from with the bedroom in the northwest, here I can plan more window area and enjoy the unobstructed view of the forest and meadows.

Let's see how I can still optimize the corner with the staircase.