Preliminary floor plan/room layout on a large northwest plot

Residual waste, paper, and recycling do not smell - prefer to keep organic waste a bit further away. Tip: Check out Bokashi and EM. This way you can process green waste and food scraps odorlessly and get excellent fertilizer for your garden.

No, he’s just happy that he doesn’t have to think for himself. You gave him the plan — a mistake. Now you’ll never get a draft from him, only a copy of your amateur attempts.

By the way, this is a good test of whether the architect is any good. In our youthful naivety, we did the same. Our architect then said: “You put a lot of effort into this... but we’ll set it aside now and start over from scratch.” When we saw the first draft, we nearly fell off our chairs, how much better the architect’s design was compared to our amateur room puzzle. In hindsight, somehow logical.

I am also just an amateur - so that doesn't make it any better.

But your drafts already look very sensible.

It's about 12m from the house to the bin for us. We can manage that. How much would it be for you?

Yes, it could be 12 meters as the crow flies, depending on how the paths are laid out and if I place them close to the property boundary maybe about 16 m walking distance.

Residual waste, paper, and recycling don't smell - better to keep organic waste a bit further away.

We haven't known a smell-free residual waste bin since the birth of our first daughter 2.5 years ago.
And sometimes, although rather rarely, food scraps also go in there. Prepared meals, meat leftovers, etc. at least are not allowed in the organic waste bin for us,