Preliminary floor plan/room layout on a large northwest plot

Here’s another little experiment with the kitchen separate and the dining table in the living room: ... However, I don’t know if the cantilever on the upper floor works without support.

Also very nice. The overhang is relatively small, so it should be doable without support with appropriate reinforcement. Otherwise, every balcony would need a support too. The open space is great!

I wouldn’t want to place my living room facing the street, the couch is the main living area and should have a view of the garden (+ view of the TV and the dining table, but that is given here as well). Also, you should avoid having people see through the window from the sidewalk whether I’m still wearing my pajamas. We don’t like curtains and already often have part of the blinds down because an elderly couple in the upper floor of a multi-family house behind our rental house is constantly standing at the window and watching the neighbors. Our new living room should be as bright as possible and as private as possible.

Upstairs the bedroom seems a bit tight for me, we want to put in a family bed about 2.70 m wide, in the beginning there will also need to be space somewhere for a changing table. I would plan the dressing room large enough so that there can be wardrobes on both sides (the storage space will be used not only for clothes but also for bedding, towels, bulk purchases of shower gel, etc.). In the upstairs bathroom I would still need to find a niche to accommodate a "men’s standing spot," in the guest toilet downstairs that can easily fit with a smaller shower.

I’m still not quite sure about the garage + front door located on the northeast side, especially since I now see that it would also require several steps to the entrance. Currently inconvenient with a stroller, later on (we are already over 40 today) possibly not easy with a walker either. I also don’t see much advantage in placing the garage there because the house would have to be shifted accordingly to the left. If I roughly assume a house width of 11 m and a garage width of 8 m with a total plot width of 32 meters from which 3 meters are deducted for the side path, so 29 meters width: When positioning the garage on the right with 1 m distance to the path, I have 29-1-8-11= 9 meters distance in which I look from the house towards the southwest at the driveway of the left neighbor (there will be a hedge there later). When positioning the garage on the left southwestern boundary and the house on the right with 2 m distance, I have 29-2-11= 16 meters distance to the left neighbor or 8 meters distance in which I look at our own nicely brick-clad and possibly also plant-decorated garage. Even if I can move the garage in the "right" variant a bit back and thus also to the right on the angled property line, this would only give me at most 1 meter additionally. For this, I would still be significantly closer to the left neighbor with my terrace. Because in the "garage left" variant my garden will get much wider again towards the southwest where my garage ends at the back (see above 16 meters from the house edge). The only advantage of the garage on the right would be that it is directly at the house, or have I overlooked something there? Although walking a few steps isn’t supposed to be unhealthy for office workers.

The ugliness of the neighbor's car is your personal axis of the earth, which seriously deserves its own privacy hedge?

We generally want our garden to be as private as possible and surrounded by greenery. If I want to watch other people driving, I can turn on Formula 1 on RTL. A Sky subscription would have been even cheaper for this purpose than the property.

Bought a few years ago, there were still large greenhouses of a flower business on it

Have a soil survey carried out!

That is exactly what has been happening so far, because we have a far too small wardrobe, which is also mostly blocked by the stroller + MaxiCosi.

One door doesn’t change that. Two doors even less.

With a relatively open floor plan, you can of course also define the entrance area as part of the dining area, but for me that is far from the case. And after work, I also sit in the living room wearing "street clothes,"

Be aware that you/your parents have to deal with teenagers or adolescents for 10/15 years. Time does not change. Advantage of your illusion.

because an elderly couple in a multi-family house behind our rental house is constantly standing at the window on the upper floor and watching the neighbors.

Angle of incidence = angle of reflection. Staring back

Prepare a soil survey!

The greenhouses were only located in the rear area, not in our building window; the front area was undeveloped. Due to our profession, we know the soil conditions in the area; we will quickly encounter stable gravel, usually already after a maximum of 0.50 m.

One door doesn't change that. Two doors even less.

But whether the cloakroom is in front of or behind the vestibule doesn’t change that either, does it? There would be space to park a stroller without blocking the cloakroom in my design, both in front and behind.

Be aware that you/you parents will be dealing with teenagers or adolescents for 10/15 years.

Do they get impressed by the location of a cloakroom or vestibule? Or is this referring to the open floor plan, which then makes "getting out of each other's way" more difficult?

Angle of incidence = angle of reflection. Staring back

Even waving politely didn’t help.