Planning a single-family house in Norden, NRW - opinions on the planning wanted...

We are building a house with a gable roof and a roof pitch of 38 degrees. The knee wall shall be 1.35 m high.

After numerous model home visits, we found a floor plan from a prefabricated house model park, which we now plan to implement in solid construction.

We have a rectangular plot (17 m wide and 28 m deep) oriented north-south. The building area is located in the northern part, so the garden is to be designed in front of the house. The house should be 11 m wide (maximum possible development) and the garage with workshop room should be built to the right next to the house (NE).

The "bay window" in the SW is not yet drawn correctly. Doors are still missing on the left and right of the bay window so that the whole should look like a sunroom.

At some point, I will upload the new plans or a different representation again.

According to the current status, there is a net living area of 150 sqm, with underfloor heating upstairs and downstairs, and gas heating with hot water support via solar. The current fixed price is about EUR 230,000.

Now please opinions, discussions, etc. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

The study will become very small... I would reduce the guest WC in favor of the study... it's way too big anyway

What is the dressing room upstairs for, something like that just sounds good... but doesn't really work...

18 sqm bathroom is also a waste of space... better to divide and build a large bathroom and a small WC/shower combo for the children...

What’s the point of the dressing room upstairs, that just sounds good... but doesn’t really work...

Who says that?? Would you prefer it downstairs???? :o I don’t find the floor plan bad, although personally I would have placed the kitchen rather to the east and the living rooms to the west. Well, nevertheless I also find the bathroom too big. It could possibly be made smaller and a utility room for washing could be set up on the upper floor.

Also my two cents, because I’m still awake right now :).
Everything has already been said about the bathroom – although it might also be intended that way by the OP. For some, a large, high-quality equipped bathroom is exactly the luxury they want to treat themselves to (keyword: feel-good oasis / wellness temple).

On the upper floor, I would remove the slant in the children's room. If something has to be slanted, then better only install the door slanted. That would slightly enlarge the children's room and extend the space available along the wall.
Ground floor: Why did you plan the exterior door for the utility room? If you leave it out, you save some money (windows are cheaper than doors), reduce the risk of burglary (any accessible outer door increases the risk – we just had a security consultation from the police a week ago :cool: <-- highly recommended) and gain more space for furniture.
Do you want to use the utility room also as a pantry? If yes – fine. If not – I would design the door to the utility room from the stairwell --> thus gaining more usable space in the kitchen.

@Mycraft: On the ground floor, there shouldn’t just be a guest WC but a shower bathroom. The 4.76 sqm is already quite small for that – so hardly anything left to allocate to the office.

According to the current plan, there should be space for 2 shower heads at the top in the shower (rain shower and "normal" shower). Additionally, space is still needed in the bathroom for laundry baskets, etc. Therefore, we want to allow ourselves a bit more space.

Currently, the plan is for only one child, so the second children's room is intended as a "multipurpose room."

The door in the utility room should open to the back, as the trash bins will be on the north side there. Additionally, the entrance to the workshop/garage is located there.

House by Fingerhaus (No. 15). Due to our plot of land, access must be via the gable. We mirrored the upper floor because of the direction it faces.

I also agree that there should be a shower downstairs, but it hardly needs to be wider than a meter... afterwards you regret it because you rarely use the toilet but have to squeeze into a tiny room...

A 120x90 shower is more than generous for 2 showerheads... we have that too... bigger is nonsense... unless you physically need the space...

The dressing room doesn’t work because it’s too small... you can just do without it... take more space in the bedroom instead and put in a large wardrobe and that’s fine... otherwise you just end up with bruises every time you need clothes...