Children and Dirt)
Oh dear. With this attitude, I would postpone the desire to build until the reality of diapers has set you straight, if you can become parents at all that way.
Views and Sections)
are a very important tool to check window positions in the floor plan, headroom heights, and the like. Without them, it is more difficult to remodel floor plans properly. The dashed double line above the front edge of the sofa means that a ceiling beam hangs above it.
Views are mandatory for the approval planning (design phase), but they are also extremely helpful in the preliminary design phase to evaluate windows from floor plans on the façades. The more of a layman the builder is (and has never built before), the more indispensable this control instrument is. Otherwise, you will end up with amazed "Oh, that's what it looks like" reactions—and window sashes banging against the faucet. Well, on the ground floor you can at least clean it from the outside. What was the architect’s profession again?
I see many things even without them, but: to check the harmony of the façade, I would like to be able to consult a view, for example, how bedroom windows and kitchen windows work together.
And you apparently don’t see some things from the floor plan as they will appear: the WC as a "building element" in the hallway, the Damocles beam hanging over the sofa, the view of the end face of the partition wall when entering the bedroom, you cleaning the roof window above the bathtub.
Stepped Partition Wall)
Which wall bracket do you mean? – I thought about placing the TV on the chest of drawers. So behind the cabinet, floor to ceiling, and behind the chest of drawers so that its upper edge does not peek over the wall.
Architect Does Not Listen)
Then give her the boot. Floor plan furnishings that contradict the discussion results make the floor plans unsuitable for checking whether they are ready for approval.
Plaster)
Maria16 probably didn’t mean the visible surface of the wall, but that for solid walls, the measurements are rough construction measurements and a finger-thick layer of plaster is still applied. In prefabricated construction, gypsum plasterboards take this place and are included in the measurements.
You and your architect are concocting—and in such a way that you almost work against each other—a tinkering that does not fit at this scale. The original floor plans of this house work excellently; it clearly has the potential to be a bestseller. But only for people who can live with a Pareto optimum. THAT works at this scale.
However, the targeted degree of perfection requires space, i.e., either you have a full meter more leg length available, then it also works in the square; or it becomes—as here—ultimately dollhouse-like.
Do you remember my spontaneous association from your lot layout with the suggested house, that you had rotated the door-WC quadrant of the standard floor plan? – something like that works. But having the bathroom door open outward, behind the gallery view onto the stairs (which fits the spatial feeling), and also pulling the bathroom wall out into this angle crosses the line into dollhouse scale. I do not yet see the washbasin drain functioning like that, or at least it conflicts with the fact that another installation shaft is supposed to be needed elsewhere.
The basic model must be adapted more delicately with constant outer dimensions. It will never be a design that Nordlys or I would prefer to build immediately. But it fits. For hundreds of Schmidts, Meiers, or indeed Häberles. Precisely this excellent paretooptimal functioning you have perfectly constructed for it.
If I may venture an unsolicited life advice (feel free to scratch me if not): check your relationship with an architect’s fee thrown to the wind, look for a nice house (which can still be smaller now because of the children’s rooms) to rent in order to gain single-family house experience, and occasionally play holiday substitute for parents in your circle of friends who want to take an extended weekend trip just as a couple. All of that together could be the best invested auxiliary building costs of your life. Just sayin’, as an old geezer.