Renovation Floor Plan Optimization Highlights

The information remains sparse. One does not even know where south is or the street.

I want it to be an individual home and not a house like from a catalog.

You already have that, since it is an existing house.

I wish for little tricks or ideas that make the whole thing more individual.

Well, it should work though, right?

Ideas for special features that make the whole thing personal

You create personality mostly with furniture. There are dozens of identical row houses, each of which is different inside and personally furnished by and for the residents.
You ask for personality but don't even reveal your age and plan uniform gimmicks that everyone who (re)builds must have right now.

Regarding the draft (from left to right): If you have space and a lot of living area, it is paradoxical to plan living spaces with a width of 2 meters.
Additionally, the slanting wall constricts. Seen from the open space, I consider this slanting wall a design disaster. But well, a matter of taste whether you have to have something like that. However, the workroom is more like a better broom closet.
The wardrobe should be visible from the open space/dining table?

The TV corner with more than 5 meters depth is almost too far. The fireplace could disturb while watching TV because it catches the eye (also peripheral vision) before you can focus on the TV.

A window seat behind furniture is not sensible. After all, you want a) to sit there and b) to look at this special element.
I like the two narrow windows, also that this element is picked up elsewhere (here: kitchen).

The dining area is personally way too far from the kitchen. It is also not clear if there are supposed to be two terraces and then everything is furnished twice, which one is the main terrace, etc.

Pantry: . . with 20cm deep shelves. It is too narrow.

And the same applies here (I see it in almost every amateur draft): simply pushing a small storage room into another room does nothing but create deficits in the main room: The workroom becomes a long narrow room.

If you want something special, I would extend the kitchen island so that you can create a bench in the corner.
But for the reasons mentioned, I would not plan or want it like this overall now.

Moved walls quickly during the Germany/Hungary game. For proper planning, information is missing and I won’t ask for that anymore.
At least these are all nice and usable rooms, where the right side part could even be separated.
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A very nice approach from ypg!

I always find it interesting how neglectfully offices / workrooms are designed – when you use them as a home office, you spend many hours there daily. This circumstance should be taken into account during planning. Of course, these rooms don’t have to be ballrooms, but they should function, especially regarding light and air conditions. From my own experience, I can say that it makes quite a difference whether you work in a reasonably nice, airy, bright room or in a dark broom closet squeezed into the corner of the house, just like the original design of this little study here would be.

The 9sqm "office" will become a utility room.

I am an amateur, that's true, but I have invested a lot of time and put a lot of thought into it. If I were a professional, I wouldn't ask this forum for support. I am grateful for the factual tips and will think about them. I thought the slanted wall wouldn't seem so harsh and wouldn't separate the (somehow empty) room in the middle so much. I will close off the view to the wardrobe and am thankful for this hint. I have thought a lot about the distance to the dining room. Since this is a load-bearing wall that I am almost completely opening, passages are needed where the wall continues to exist for structural reasons. Approximately behind the fireplace and also the wall section between the kitchen and dining room. To me, it made no sense to make a passage but leave a longer wall standing in the middle of the living area‍♀. If there are good ideas, I would be happy to hear them.

Because the house originally had a granny flat, there are also two terraces. The plan is to eventually connect these into one large area. The small terrace on the right will be equipped with a chill-out area, according to the plan. That is why there is only one door and no additional sliding element to the outside. The main terrace is intended to be the large terrace accessible via the sliding door from the dining room. We are lucky that the terraces and the garden receive sun all day long.

We are in our mid-thirties and want a modern, spacious, and bright ambiance. The house is located at the end of a cul-de-sac and is entered from the front. The driveway to the double garages is on the left side of the house. Therefore, there should be an additional access door to the utility room in order to be able to bring water crates directly from the car into the utility room.

We are in our mid-30s…

That comes quite late and is very meager.

would like a modern, spacious and bright ambiance.

Who wouldn’t want that?

I am an amateur, that's true, but I have invested a lot of time and put a lot of thought into it. If I were a professional, I wouldn’t be asking this forum for support.

Do you know what the architect does with that? Puts it aside. He doesn’t care how long you have been working on it. What counts is the result. He will ask you what you want. If you say, "bright and friendly," he will ask you who would want it unfriendly and dark. He will ask you about your family, hobbies, your daily routine and which rooms you additionally need. If you say nothing there, he will send you away again and charge a 150€ consultation fee winking. Or he needs every penny, takes your design and flatters you by saying: great, we’ll do it this way – just as you wish. Without information, no plans. Without openness, no change. It’s up to you or you all whether you accept criticism or are attached to the hours spent on the draft and have lost all self-criticism because pride is much greater. It also does not matter how the house was used before – what matters is what is currently existing and what you want to have in the future.

One doesn’t even know where south is

Too bad, you still don’t know. Somehow the communication question/answer doesn’t work.

So, I would like a spacious living/dining and kitchen area. Preferably as large as possible, it should become the center of the house. On the left (room designated as an office) I want a door to the cars. This room should ideally be used as a utility room. Adjacent to it (with an additional door) there should preferably be a pantry, which in turn is located near the kitchen. The window seat in the kitchen would be nice, but it is not necessary, it can also be in the living area. What is important to me is that there is a separate table in the kitchen where the family eats their everyday meals. Would a decorative wall with niches to separate the dining room make sense here? We need a larger office or two small offices on the ground floor, as well as a guest WC and a wardrobe. I want as much light as possible to flow into the living-dining-kitchen area, as this is the heart of the house. This is where life should take place.