Planning of a "classic" semi-detached house

The issue with the staircase in the living room has been discussed countless times. I also want to share my comments with you: The open staircase allows both noise and heat to rise upwards. Especially in unheated basements, this can lead to temperature differences. We deliberately chose to forgo the open staircase in our semi-detached house – of course, the room is now smaller, but both the noise and the temperature differences are different. In our living room, it is significantly warmer than in the hallway or upstairs. Heat would always rise upwards with an open staircase. I have 3 small children – so you are glad when visitors come (both of the children and the parents) to be able to close this additional door.

I once lived in a very similar terraced house. It was 75 cm narrower than yours. I would advise you to separate the staircase for two reasons that are very important to me: 1. the point you already described and 2. a basement is usually cooler than the rest of the house. This always creates a certain unpleasant draft. I can well imagine separating the staircase only with frosted glass walls; that saves space and doesn’t take up as much room as a wall. If you still have the option, I would plan a small bay window or glass extension in the dining area. That will give you a bit more space and also light in the narrow area. From my own experience I can tell you that without windows in the dining area you have to turn on the light even on beautiful days in summer. Also, I would consider whether you need two large terrace doors at the back terrace. I would find it better if there was only one floor-to-ceiling element and the second one opposite the staircase was a double casement window. Then you would also have more space for furniture. I really like the rest of the house.

You have 3 children's rooms. So do you have three children? Are there perhaps little ones among them? Ones who might fall down the stairs? Then an open staircase that is located directly in one of the main living areas is rather unfortunate.

Is the position of the staircase in the center of the house fixed, or would you be allowed to have the staircase closer to the entrance door? If the staircase has to stay there and be separated from the main living area, this can be done if necessary with a glass wall (extending the wall between the kitchen and the hallway), then you still have enough light everywhere. But this makes the kitchen-dining area quite narrow. You can't already pass by the dining table on the left, and if there was also a wall on the right, you would be just as badly squeezed to get to the living area.

If the stair location is flexible and the staircase could therefore be on the entrance side, the bathroom on the 1st floor would have to be moved, since the staircase would be there. I would place it in the left front corner of the house and the storage room, where a window is less important, on the right wall towards the neighboring house. Where the storage room is now, together with part of the currently planned dressing room, a children's room would be created, and behind that the other. Both would have, as is fair, access to the roof terrace on the garage roof. On the 2nd floor you could leave the shower where it is, since you don’t have to keep the whole stairwell length free there, just enough so that someone coming up doesn't hit their head on the ceiling.

You have two bathrooms and an additional toilet, which is great. Most people prefer to use the bathroom on their own floor. Adults usually want only a quick shower, while children place great value on the bathtub. Perhaps the master bedroom including dressing area should therefore be swapped with the children’s room directly above. If the 1st floor becomes the children’s floor, you could take away part of the dressing room in the rear room (currently drawn as the master bedroom with dressing area) and add that space to the storage room; the washing machine would then fit there, after all, most of the laundry will be created on the children's floor.

Hello,
we built with similar dimensions (6.50 * 11m), garage planned in the same location. Our staircase is in the hallway, we deliberately wanted a bench for putting on/taking off shoes and a coat corner that can't be seen from the front door. We tend to just throw everything into the corner after sports or school. Then we have a kids' floor with 2 identical rooms and 1 somewhat smaller guest room, bathroom planned similar to yours. Attic ONLY FOR US with shower bath xD
Blog is linked on my profile, the plans there are not the very latest, but if you live near Bonn, you might be able to get an impression of the spatial effect on site. We are moving in tomorrow. YAYYYYY
Best regards