Optimize functional ground floor layout within limited space

But here there is no other option than to build with stairs if you don't want to live in 50m2. It's completely normal to walk through a townhouse over 3 floors. Every day. Several times. I have also been walking from the basement to the 1st floor several times daily for years. And it has never bothered me. Why should it?

It is no problem to use the stairs occasionally. But with regard to age, injuries, etc., I would definitely not distribute [Wohnen/Kochen/Essen] across several floors and there must be a toilet on every floor. One should be able to spend the day on the living level.

If one is no longer able to walk up a floor, one should not live in a single-family house but in assisted living. I don’t have to spend the whole day on one level, do I? Why should I? I sometimes go to the study on the 1st floor and on the same day also to the living room on the ground floor. And then actually still to the hobby basement in the basement. I’m getting tired of this discussion and this destructive talk of creating a problem. The house is well designed with a nice floor plan and well laid out for a townhouse. There is nothing more to say about it.

But there is no other option here than to build with stairs if you don't want to live in 50m2. It is completely normal to walk through a townhouse over 3 floors. Every day. Several times. I have also been walking several times daily from the basement to the 1st floor for years. And it has never bothered me. Why would it?

But it is not so ideal if you always have to walk through two "dead" floors to get to the main living area. Especially with children, I would want to live closer to the garden instead of three floors away. We were not balcony sitters either, but we love being in the garden. And that now has less to do with age-appropriate building than with pragmatism. I use the bedroom door twice a day, but between the front door and the living area, I feel like I walk back and forth a hundred times a day when working from home. Do I always want to go up three stairs to "quickly get something from the living room (mobile phone!)"? No. The ground floor is there because of the car, but I wouldn't want to shove another floor in between.

If you are no longer able to walk a floor, you should not live in a single-family house but in assisted living.

It can also happen suddenly. Once not paying attention while skiing, you end up on crutches for weeks ;)

If you are no longer able to walk up a floor, you should not live in a single-family house but in assisted living.

One moment not paying attention while skiing and you're on crutches for weeks.

Exactly ... just went through that this summer, almost 11 weeks with a casted foot that could not be put under weight.