Pipe plot, preliminary draft single-family house 170 m²

Yes, the location is right - unfortunately a bit more rural. There are a handful of architects and we have already talked to two of them. We have now more or less decided on a freelance planner... but I am skeptical whether he will really put love into it. Of course, a preliminary draft from the architect costs 1200 € - not a lot - but also not necessarily a guarantee for a good floor plan (I have sifted through countless posts in the green forum). The problem with HAR is that a brine-water heat pump is to be installed there and it probably produces around 45 dB, which is not blocked by a door - hence the second wall. We had access to the utility room through the hallway before and also swapped the stairs and HAR - but back then the HAR was even more prominent - however, back then without the second wall. I think I'll swap that again. In two weeks it gets serious - then the floor plan planning starts professionally - until then I try to internalize all ideas and criticism to be able to evaluate the results.

I already had an entrance in the north, which would also be much easier, as there are already 10,000 usable floor plans from countless providers - the architects went crazy about it

: Nice that you are back, you could have easily continued with your old name (once again with a different location (state BB)), the old thread is really a very hearty classic. (And as legendary as your sequentially numbered drafts in the green forum.) I really hope that you will finally actually visit a freelance architect. Until then, it is not about drawing the umpteenth draft yourself, but about figuring out how you want to live. In the original thread, the dining area in the kitchen was designed for three people, although you had planned for five. Back then, eating in the kitchen was important to you, now there is the usual counter solution, and eating takes place in the central hub of the house, not really cozy. The bedroom access situation through this hub is the same, and the hallway with the laundry passes through eating and cooking to the utility room. And when you really go to the architect, please do not present your own drafts, it only hinders creativity. WD

So I have never been registered here before and we have also never had 3 people in the kitchen. There was a draft with a table in the kitchen, but it had 4 seats. We currently live in a rental apartment - how am I supposed to know what my target state should be? No idea if eating in the living room annoys me or if I find it great to use the counter. As I said - my main concern is to get a feel for what is good (there seems to be no perfect solution, since EVERY draft is criticized or dismissed with the words "catalog" - even Houses of the Year or architect-designed houses awarded by Heinze).

I already had the entrance in the north, that would also be much easier, since there are already 10,000 usable floor plans from countless providers – the architects stormed the green forum over that

and that's why you're planning the entrance in the west?
Although many architects are at the responding keyboards in the green forum (here there are actually more users with personal experience), they are not gods of architecture. Every architect has their style, and just because the gentlemen there negate something, it is not law!
And if you mention there that the design is your own creation, even though it doesn't look like it, everything is for the file anyway.
As long as they think the design is by an architect, the answers are polite.

My house also saw the round file there, "back to zero" was still the nicest phrase, yet we are happy with the room layout and its function. Small things that bother – probably due to no one really engaging with that very design...

Go to an architect who doesn’t have to profile themselves on the forum level until 11 p.m. every day! But I also understand that you enjoy the painting (I do too), only then you should maybe not always change the critique in the same body, but first the body itself.

That the gentlemen write more in the forum than work has also caught my attention - but yes - there is something to the entrance in the west - I also find an L-shaped body charming. I just don't know if the long hallway is then a must or if I'm simply doing something wrong. The long architect-designed houses also have a long hallway - so does my parents' terraced house. At my parents' place there is a dresser and the staircase. I will see what the planner suggests to me...