I would consider swapping the dressing room and bedroom, then the lighting in that room will work without an expensive Velux, through which you can't see anything anyway. Also, you would then have a sound buffer to the children's room.
We also tried that, but it wouldn't have worked properly. You would basically enter the room and stand directly in front of the dressing room wall. In the architect's initial plan, there was no window in the dressing room either, but I somehow didn't like that. Even though, in the broadest sense, it is just a slightly larger wardrobe, I want to have natural light in there. Also, I don't like the outside view if there is no window in that spot but only extensive brickwork.
The slanted walls are not my thing either... They always look like the architect got tired of planning the usual 90-degree walls
I guess that’s a matter of taste... we actually didn’t want the usual 90° walls :P
I find the entrance area somewhat unfortunate. You open the door and practically run into a slanted wall, which isn’t inviting. And where is a wardrobe supposed to go here? The study on the ground floor is surely to also be used as a guest room. So where do guests shower, at your place upstairs? By the way, there are four of you and only one shower? Then better make the WC on the ground floor a bit bigger, at the expense of the “living” area. I also find it inappropriate that you always have to walk through the living room to get to the study. If someone has visitors and the other wants to retreat, they have to pass everyone every time. The door from the garage to the utility room is surely planned to store groceries there (space could be tight in the kitchen). But it doesn’t make much sense because the path from the kitchen to the utility room is always quite far. So you could just bring the things in through the front door.
The wardrobe is supposed to go under the stairs. At first, the wardrobe was planned to the left in front of the guest WC, and the guest WC was rotated 90°. But then the utility room would have been too small. Yes, the study will also have a sofa bed. Although the only occasional overnight guests will be my mother and my wife’s godchild. We consciously decided against a shower in the guest WC for space and cost reasons. In my parents’ house, which is much bigger, there is a shower in the guest WC which was never used :P That you always have to go through the living room to get to the study is not ideal, but it works for us. With the staircase, there was simply no other possibility. The groceries are to be stored in the kitchen, not in the utility room. The utility room would be way too small for that. It is intended purely as a technical and laundry room. But we would like to have the option to get dry into the house or the car, hence the door. :P