Questions about planning a single-family house in Hamburg - Additional costs due to the basement

I actually like the floor plan as well. Some points that were mentioned are certainly worth improving but not too dramatic in my eyes. Yes, the orientation. I think it is always a matter of taste. I am not an advocate of the criminally south-facing living room orientation. There are pros and cons. If I interpret this correctly, you have west-facing windows. Unfortunately, directly opposite the TV corner, but well, the lesser evil. The walk-in closet could indeed become too tight. But you still have 15 sqm of the master bedroom, so there’s probably some room to shift things around. I don’t find this emergency solution with the mini office that bad. Guest WC without a window, well okay. You can’t have everything. There’s also ventilation and room spray. The issue with the only bathtub being in the master bathroom could indeed become a problem, but that has to be adjusted to the needs of the residents. For a self-design, not bad at all. Hopefully, it’s feasible from a calculation standpoint.

Internal WC in the new building is not possible in my opinion. Rethink the plan and make the architect sweat... Compromises - sure, from my side, but WCs without windows should not be accepted.

Is it not possible to do without the angles in the children's rooms? Just pull straight across?

Some things have already been mentioned, so repetitions are not excluded:

- The WC on the ground floor is way too small (just think about how big your children are when they are small. They stand on a stool in front of the sink and try to wash their hands in a hobbit-sized sink). Also, the WC has no window, which is a no-go in a new build! It would be best to swap this tiny WC with the office, which also doesn’t make sense in that size anyway.

- Mirroring the house was the first thing that came to my mind; if not, I would definitely integrate this "wash nook" into the utility room and make it accessible from the hallway. So far, you have to carry laundry etc. through the dining room and kitchen every time, which is quite impractical.

I don’t find the room layout on the upper floor very fortunate for 3 children. You indulge yourselves with access only through the bedroom, the largest bathroom, and the only one with a bathtub. Especially when the children are younger, they like to take baths sometimes. I would also integrate the walk-in closet into the bedroom, if only because otherwise you only have artificial light there. Nowadays, apparently, everyone plans a walk-in closet first...

I can understand that you want this captain’s gable, many houses up here in the north look like that these days. Compared to that, you could also have a house without a captain’s gable calculated, but with utilization of the floor area ratio. That would mean for you a rectangular house (maybe with a covered terrace in the southeast corner). That way you would have more space and could plan the ground floor so that an actual office results.

Oh yes, and leave out that unnecessary air space next to the stairs, it only costs space and will not have nearly the effect you expect.

Shower in the children's bathroom with 75cm depth is too shallow! Move the bathtub forward, otherwise you will just be ducking your heads when you want to get into the tub. Alternative on the ground floor: WC in the intended office, in front of it a larger dressing room/wardrobe. The storage room that remains (former WC) can later, if needed, be set up as a closet office: sliding door and behind it then a closet, countertop for PC... you can then sit in the hallway. Nowadays a PC workstation is often overrated, the trend is towards a laptop/tablet in the living area or later maybe via TV.

Hello,

a lot has already been written, so I'll save myself that. The only thing I notice is the view with the front door. Sorry, but I find it really terrible. You say you want it modern, but the house is absolutely standard and unfortunately very boring from the front and not eye-catching. The roof windows are much too small to have an impact on light or appearance; big roof windows need to go in there. And this downward extended roof over the front door is also not really trendy. It's more common in houses from low-cost prefabricated house suppliers. There are so many possibilities, like extending the wall upwards like a gable, a gable with rounded "corners" as an entrance, just google front view house and look for ideas in images.....