Opinions, suggestions, and improvement proposals for planning

I generally find your floor plan quite good. On the ground floor, everything already fits together quite well. The question, of course, is whether the kitchen island is sufficient for you, since you are simultaneously washing, cooking, and chopping there. Personally, in our new build, we will have a cooking island about 2.40m long and additionally a work surface about 3.20m long (including sink) with base cabinets.

I find the living room size completely adequate, and due to the divisions (cabinet wall music room/sideboards kitchen), the large room does not feel so uncomfortable. Also very good are the many wardrobe cabinets and the bright entrance area.

The upper floor is somewhat less fortunate. The cabinets outside the children's rooms are very impractical. I would definitely change that.
A second bathroom on the upper floor for the children I find good, and it is already arranged quite sensibly. I would personally still adapt the parents' bathroom. On the one hand, in my opinion, a T-solution is suboptimal here, and on the other hand, I would prefer, if I were you, that it was clearly assigned to the "parents’ area" and that you don’t have to walk through the "public" hallway first to get to your bathroom.

Whether you still need the room and the roof terrace on the second floor?!? Well, you have to decide that, and it obviously depends on your budget/wishes. Since you also still have the basement, I personally find that a bit oversized or would find it more sensible to enlarge the children’s rooms and possibly swap the bedroom with the study. Then the bathroom would theoretically have to move upstairs as well, and the floor would have to be even bigger. No idea if your development plan allows that or if it really makes sense.

Views of your house would definitely be interesting as well.

If you want to make changes, try not to arrange the children's rooms lengthwise along a house wall, but rather have 2 bedrooms at the front and then the bathroom and dressing room opposite the stairs. That would at least loosen things up a bit upstairs.

But then one children's room would still be northwest and the other southwest?!

You can keep the elongated main structure. But 50cm - 100cm in width would do your house quite well. And your plot is so huge, losing a few centimeters won’t matter.

Do you mean width as "right-left"?
What we want to do is increase the depth by about 1m and the width in the kitchen area, so there is room for a 3m kitchen row. With the greater depth, the children's rooms would then have a bit more than 16 sqm.

Hello, first of all, thank you very much for the suggestions!

I generally like your floor plan. The ground floor is already quite harmonious. Of course, the question is whether the kitchen block is enough for you, since you basically wash, cook, and chop at the same time here. We personally will have a cooking island about 2.40m long in our new build and additionally about a 3.20m long countertop (including sink) with base cabinets.

The kitchen block with 3x1.2 will actually be quite decent. I looked at the same one in the kitchen studio and worked on it during a cooking course - overall even with 10 people. It will be enough regarding the space.

I find the living room completely adequate in size and due to the partitions (cabinet wall music room/sideboards kitchen) the large room doesn’t feel so uncomfortable. The many wardrobe cupboards and the bright entrance area are also very good.

Thanks!

The upper floor is a bit less fortunate. The cupboards outside the kids’ rooms are very impractical. I would definitely change that.

Yes, the cupboards were planned by the architect - I haven’t spoken to him about it yet - I’m curious what he will say. I don’t like them either. But maybe everything will be a bit "deeper", then the kids will get the space inside again.

A second bathroom on the upper floor for the kids I find good and it is already sensibly divided. I would personally adjust the parents’ bathroom. On the one hand, in my opinion, a T-layout here is suboptimal, on the other hand, I would prefer it at your place if it was clearly assigned to the "parents’ area" and you wouldn’t have to go through the "public" hallway first to get to your bathroom.

We have already thought about the access to the bathroom through the bedroom. The layout of the bathroom is not 100% yet.

Whether you still need the room and the roof terrace on the 2nd upper floor?!? Well, you have to decide that and it naturally depends on your budget/wishes. Since you also have the basement, I personally find that somewhat oversized or would find it more useful to enlarge the kids’ rooms and possibly swap the bedroom with the study. Then theoretically the bathroom would have to move upstairs and the floor would become even bigger. No idea whether your zoning plan allows that or if it really makes sense.

I don’t want to have my work and reading room in the basement! And if we put the bedroom upstairs now and the kids’ rooms suddenly have 20-25 sqm—what will we do in 20 years when the kids have moved out—then I have 75 sqm of unused space?! The zoning plan allows it—but as I said, I don’t want my work and reading room in the basement.

Views of your house would definitely be interesting.

Those will come later.

What’s the point of the two rooftop terraces? No one will use them anyway. If at all, the terrace should be for the children and not off the bedroom. Apart from sleeping, you don’t really spend time there. I would completely omit the rooftop terrace in the attic. The kitchen island might be enough for cooking, but where do plates, pots, Tupperware, cookbooks, and so on go? You have very little space there. I think 14 sqm is sufficiently large for a children’s room. Arranging the rooms side by side looks odd on the plan, but in reality, it can also be great.

How about your budget? 1m more house length is likely to cost at least €50,000. The large window areas are nice but expensive. Are we still in the six-figure range or already seven-figure? If money doesn’t matter, okay. Personally, everything would still be too cramped for me despite the huge area. I like some ideas, but with that area, much more is possible.