Planning of a captain's gable house on a corner plot

Thank you for your answers!

Regarding the guest toilet:
We still need to consider which way the door should open.
We also haven't noticed that the space for the WC and toilet is insufficient and have already thought about how to solve the problem without success. We definitely need to consult about that.

Regarding the attic:
There is no floor plan. Maybe it's naive, but we thought about putting up a wall in the middle and using one half as a storage room and the other half as a playroom.

I still have this comparable draft from the archive:

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However, the knee wall was 1.30m here. That makes it tight with the single-story design. But maybe there are still some suggestions included.

I still have this comparable draft from the archive:

Comparable, with one significant deviation: a crucial mistake is missing. Namely, the completely botched second staircase that destroys everything, with which the so-called architect accesses the attic in a lackey-like manner. A real architect would already feel pain while drawing it. Hopefully, even laypeople will recognize the enormous quality difference associated with avoiding this confusing knot. This is basically the sister insight to "The upper floor has priority": a staircase, if it is to be good, must be planned from the exit upwards!

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This is basically the sister of the insight "The upper floor has priority":
a staircase, if it is to be good, must be planned starting from the exit!

The constant repetition of this phrase unfortunately does not make it more true. No, a floor plan is created on several levels from the very beginning. The staircase is the connecting link and therefore central to the planning. Sometimes it can be easier to start with the upper floor, but sometimes it is better to plan the ground floor first. There is no all-encompassing rule of insight. There is only experience, passion, or study.

The constant repetition of this phrase unfortunately does not make it more true.

Its accuracy is proven by almost every amateur planning, so one can speak of a rule. And as befits rules, of course with exceptions:

Sometimes it can be easier to start with the upper floor, but sometimes it is better to plan the ground floor first.

An example of an exception can be found with or in the form of a hillside property with an entrance floor on the mountain side.

There is only experience, passion or study.

The amateurs planning themselves certainly do not lack passion. But usually lack study and often experience, which is why they start with the living room floor, often "calibrated from an apartment".

There is no all-encompassing rule of insight.

They regularly proceed in portions and first optimize one floor level, which sets the framework for the other developed afterward. The upper floor is regularly more complex (and as an attic floor additionally smaller). This leads to a desperation from which the rule arising from the insight helps out.

The staircase is the connecting link and therefore central in planning.

That can never be said too often either.

No, a floor plan is created from the start on several levels.

Exactly: with the space program before it is distributed over levels. At the overall level, it must always be considered first and foremost as a whole. When one then switches from the overall level to the (funny sounding) level level, after first comes first, and here the clever avoider of desperation gives priority to the more complex floor, which considering gravity leads to placing the upper floor first on the operating table for division. I hope now even dissenters have understood that the recommendation is about methodology, and not about healing the world through the 11th antediluvian being.

Hello,

we have been thinking a lot about the floor plan recently and reconsidered some things. The stairs to the attic are to be removed, although they were originally very important to us. The utility room should (must?) be much smaller; in return, we have found a place for a wardrobe niche in the hallway. We want to do without the dormer partly for cost reasons and partly because we no longer see the necessity due to the removed staircase.

We quite like the current floor plan except for a few minor details. The windows are not symmetrical yet, the roof window is too small for us, and the access to Child 1 is not ideal. However, we do not see any other solution and wonder whether the access is really that awkward or maybe even cozy?

Thank you again for all the previous tips. We would also appreciate criticism here.