Single-family house 150 sqm in Lower Saxony

The number of storeys is at least clearly answered in your design: the upper floor only works with straight walls, not as a sloped roof storey.

Currently I have 40cm between the bed and the wall, that's enough for me

Exactly with such imperfections you want to tidy up when you build new - or not?

after reading along in the forum here for what feels like an eternity, I finally have to "drop my pants".

The staircase, according to this presentation and the illustration in the questionnaire, is already a bit cheeky and the bare backside deserves a spanking. The rest doesn't even need to be discussed here, because if the staircase doesn't fit, the whole house doesn't fit. Good evening.

Eating and cooking are sufficient with 6.20m. The wall unit is 60cm deep, the row distance is 120cm, the island 100-120cm. There is about 320-350cm of space left for table and chair.

However, then the passage to the living room is in the wrong place, you can no longer get through there. Home builders love to place a wide sliding door in the middle of the wall. The table or kitchen island then has to be circled around, everything becomes more complicated.

A better alternative are 2 glass sliding doors, one at each end of the living room wall. The sliding door on the terrace side, when opened, makes the rooms appear larger, especially when there is only a narrow piece of wall between the window front in the living room and at the dining table, where the sliding door meets it. However, there is also floor-to-ceiling glazing in the living room.

- With the staircase, we almost feared that 2 meters width would be too little (but as the saying goes, hope dies last).

2.20m x 2.20m is a pretty good minimum size. The staircase is a crucial element. If it doesn’t fit, everything has to be redone.

- Distance between the kitchen unit and the cooking island: I had read everywhere 120 cm and mainly with the reasoning that you can open opposite drawers at the same time. If I push the island a bit further into the room, I get 1.10 meters. I’ll try to recreate this in our kitchen later.

Yes, 1.20m is the common dimension. Yours is just over 1m. If you know this, why don’t you just do it right from the start?

- Oops, that was not intended, hopefully the living room fits better with the kitchen. At least the living room is actually more of a cozy and lounging room. Here too, I based myself on the dimensions you find out there. 120cm from the table to the island and 130cm from the table to the living room sliding door. Is that really too tight?

Can’t follow. The tightness is mainly at the passage from the dining table to the living room. If you shift the island now, it will also get tight there.

- The shower in the guest bathroom is planned to be level access with a simple curtain, which will probably be open most of the time anyway. Then you can also reach the sink well.

You want your guests to stand in the shower to wash their hands? Dude, that’s absurd – you don’t plan things like that. But the problem might be less dramatic: shower in the other corner, toilet and sink to the left or right of it. Without dimensions, though, can’t say more.

- In the bedroom, I could rotate the bed and put it on the other wall, then there would be a whole corner more space in front of the closet. Or push the bed further to the wall without the closet (then I would have to lie there, my wife would get the wider passage. Currently I have 40cm between bed and wall, that’s enough for me ).

Rotating the bed is an option. Then plan the window accordingly. The other suggestion is as absurd as the shower-sink story.

Overall, it seems more to lack house length than house width. Am I seeing this right?

Well, you’re already at 160m² instead of 150 and there is still a lack of width. But if that’s not a financial problem, making it bigger is almost always possible.

Thank you very much for all the helpful feedback!

The staircase, according to this idea and the illustration in the questionnaire, is already a bit cheeky and deserves a good spanking.

According to which "idea"? Yes, I have seen the stairs in the template thread. Then I browsed further here in the forum and came across a thread where the staircase was also only 2x2 meters. There it was more or less concluded as "still okay." What this tone is supposed to mean now I do not understand.

Precisely with such imperfections you want to clear up when you are already building new - or not?

Definitely. With the 40 cm I rather wanted to express that the possibly existing 70 to 80 cm would be absolutely sufficient for me.

Well, you are already at 160m² instead of 150 and it is still lacking width. But if that is no financial problem, making it bigger is almost always possible.

OOPS ops: Then we better forget about enlarging

For the sake of clarity, I’ll refrain from quoting all further responses:
- I have drawn in other parts of the kitchen, but that currently serves more for overview and is far from really planned.
- the staircase is now 2.20 x 2.20
- the shower has been removed from the guest WC
- we love the idea of sliding doors on the left and right in the living room!
- we have slightly widened the hallway upstairs in front of the bedroom
- I "simulated" 1.10 between the row and the island yesterday. It is completely sufficient for us.
- Also the 70 cm between the wall and the bed on "my side." If it does annoy me, I’ll just turn the bed anyway.

I hope I haven’t overlooked any of the previous comments.

I still think it's okay. But around the dining table, it would still all be too cramped and cluttered for me. You can't stroll freely to the terrace, but always have to squeeze past the table. It stands directly in the walkway. That would drive me crazy. I don't understand why you don't want to rotate the bed. A window behind the headboard is not ideal. But all the windows will have to be replaced anyway. Plan the bathroom! I would try to install a laundry chute there.