Our floor plan is under discussion

The kitchen feels too open to me, a kitchen open to the living/dining room just around the corner is okay, but having to go through the kitchen to get to the living room is really too much for me.
However, I found this floor plan on Pinterest, what do you think about it? It’s almost exactly our dimensions... I would, however, make the WC a bit larger at the expense of the wardrobe, so that a nice large shower can be installed there. A wardrobe niche will remain.
I would swap the utility room (HAR) with the pantry and extend the kitchen up to the old pantry wall. The utility room is also big enough as a storage room for two doors, so that supplies are directly accessible from both the entrance and the kitchen. On the entrance side (current utility room) I can also imagine a small window (for the outside appearance). For that, the kitchen/pantry windows can be combined, one larger window will surely be enough.
Can you put a large corner sofa nicely in the living room then, or is there not enough "wall" for the TV? I would rather not have the sofa in front of the window, then you can’t really look out into the garden, right?
This would also need to be mirrored.

A platform staircase is not absolutely necessary, but it is certainly more practical when bringing larger things upstairs or as one gets older (keyword: stairlift?)

Yes, the floor plan is better than yours: remove the partition wall to the kitchen. However, I would keep the second door to the new pantry and rather plan a door to the kitchen in the hallway there. The passage is used more often, even when you come down the stairs in the morning, directly into the kitchen. Upstairs, good rooms should also result. But why should one mirror this design? Everything is perfectly situated – which your floor plan lacked... In the living room, you can now also add an east window.

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I’m not quite happy with the window distribution here yet, and I also can’t quite imagine the sofa/TV combination. The kitchen certainly won’t be as long as shown on the plan, so the dining table can be placed crosswise. On the west side, I imagine two larger windows, one starting approximately at the height of the old pantry wall and the second extending the dining room window to the south. On the east side, I’m still uncertain; there could be a low strip of light into the living room, but I can’t quite imagine a large window above the couch like that. Would it perhaps be sufficient to install only one large sliding door in the middle? Two are nicer, but then the TV is either completely in the corner (again on the garden side) or between the windows. I would put the sofa against the stair/west wall.

A completely different basic consideration:

Does the front door have to be on the narrow side? Of course, this means you always have to walk almost through the whole house to get to the other end (does anyone understand what I mean?).

Wouldn't it also be an option to put the garage on the street side (possibly with another parking space in front) and place the entrance on the right or left side of the plan? Then you can "slim down" the floor plan.

I'll see if I can quickly sketch that.

, I also considered that (see above), but it’s a bit unfortunate... also moving the house further back to reach a garage at the front, because we really don’t have much land here for a garden and so on.

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I don’t quite like the window distribution here yet, and I can’t quite imagine the sofa/TV combination. The kitchen certainly won’t be as long as on the plan, so the dining table can also be placed crosswise. On the west side, I imagine two larger windows, one starting at the height of the old pantry wall and secondly the dining room window extended to the south. On the east side, I’m not sure yet; there could be a low strip window into the living room, but I can’t quite imagine a large window above the couch. Would it perhaps be enough to place just one large sliding door in the middle? Two are nicer, but then the TV is either all the way in the corner (again on the garden side) or between the windows. I would place the sofa against the stair/west exterior wall.

I would leave out the large window in the living room, enlarge the one in the dining area, and do the same around the corner on the west. In the living room, a strip window or a terrace door slightly offset to a corner of the room is enough on the east side. The living room corner will then get enough light through the dining area – in my opinion. Large windows in asymmetry suit a simple house very well.

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