Semi-detached house with unequal halves = different floor plans

I find the "abbe Ecke" with glass front really original and it naturally brings a lot of light into the house. But in the long run, it wouldn’t be for me. I’m probably too stino for that - I like the view of the other half 100 times better. Glass is fine, but without abbe Ecke.

So I really like the design! I do think that the living room corner will be darker, but I don't find that bad at all (in summer when it stays light for a long time, you are surely outside and in winter it can also be cozy in such a corner).

I still think the design is successful. It is friendly, not boring, yet functional. Couldn’t you integrate a strip of light between the living room and hallway under the ceiling? Then the interior wall in the living room with natural stone or something... possibly also in the hallway, so that this wall forms an accent from both sides?

I’m glad to hear that, Yvonne! It already feels really good to us as well. I’m just happy we found the architect who can exactly realize what we had in mind, even though we didn’t know it entirely clearly ourselves. We speak the same language and are totally on the same wavelength taste-wise.
The idea of the light strip actually did cross my mind briefly. We still have to think about that a bit more.
A natural stone wall is a great idea! It would be a fantastic accent in the hallway, but not so much in the sofa corner for us.
We are big U-sofa fans and plan to place the center of the U along the wall to the utility room across the entire wall width, then a chaise longue along the wall to the hallway, and another two-seater combination along the house partition wall. That way you can have a great view into the garden, watch TV, or just lounge comfortably.

I find the "abbe corner" with glass front really original and it naturally brings a lot of light into the house. But in the long run, I wouldn’t want that. I’m probably too conservative – I prefer the view of the other half a hundred times more. Glass is fine, but without the abbe corner.

We originally had it without the "abbe corner," where the glass front was in the middle of the gable wall and nowhere else. I actually liked that best. But the house was simply too big then. The architect didn’t want to just cut something off sideways due to the staircase position and a load-bearing wall in the middle, so he suggested this solution. At first, I wasn’t very enthusiastic. But the longer I think about it, the more I like it. Because of the roof overhang, we have an entrance canopy that can surely be stylishly illuminated with spotlights. The south house also has such a cutout, albeit only on the ground floor, but it repeats a design element. And theoretically, we could realize two parking spaces side by side and not one behind the other along the house side.

But the house was simply too big.

Oh, I see. I would also find cutting even more off worse. Better to chip off a corner.

I still don’t understand this artistically styled wall drawing along the stairs. What is planned there? Is there even a wall or just a beam with decoration?

As the stairs are currently drawn, you probably won’t be able to stand headache-free in the living room underneath. The question is whether you’ll get a bump when jumping up from the U-shaped sofa? Where is the TV planned to be placed?

Overall, I think the architect is great. Unfortunately, I don’t quite like the design (yet). If you like it, that’s perfectly fine. If it were mine, I would probably ask for a podium design again.

So here with us, people would probably say "appe" corner instead. With the corner on it, I would find the house more boring from the outside. The front door looks cool as glass in the visualization, but I wouldn’t do that either. That would be too much of a good thing for me (even if then you could look nice like Else Kling... but enough is enough). We have this head-ouch corner from the stairs in the guest room. However, it is a landing staircase; in your case, it protrudes one step lower into the room below (if I understand that correctly). For me (1.65 m tall) it fits very well. For the man (1.83 m tall) good. Architect (1.98 m tall) struggles ouch, interior designer (1.54 m uh...) can probably still jump on a trampoline underneath. Don’t worry so much about it. I could imagine it as a great corner. Even if you might have to be careful when getting up from the sofa. I think I would accept that in favor of the rest of the floor plan!

That would be a bit too much of a good thing for me as well (even if you can look as nice as Else Kling then... but enough is enough).

Yes, but "if it makes you happy" (quote from Else Kling from the Müllermilch commercial)

Don’t worry so much.

No, it’s not a new head, just one with a bump on it if you jump up suddenly from the sofa