Single-family house 160 sqm in Upper Bavaria - how can it be better?

Thanks in advance for your quick feedback!

The shower on the ground floor is debatable. A small storage area on the ground floor is missing (except in the office)

We find it very difficult to leave out the shower, even though it would clearly relax the entrance area. We can do without storage space if necessary (=> basement, large kitchen cabinet, vacuum cleaner possibly in the office).

The window areas in the children's rooms are truly too much.

Since they face south, they actually have to be shaded all day so you don’t get destroyed by the heat.

We agree. I have removed one element each. It still looks acceptable from the outside. Is the window area sufficient to keep the 23 sqm room nicely bright?

Toilet and shower should be swapped

Why? Our idea was: you enter the bathroom, undress, and turn left into the shower. If swapped, you’d always have to pass the window naked. Also, in the current design the toilet has daylight. The T is not necessarily mandatory.

Hallway, closet, WC should be arranged differently. Large hallway, no proper wardrobe

We don’t really like that either. I just put together another variant. Is this more practical? The wardrobe is still not huge and probably quite dark.

Would also provide the south windows with a parapet

What do you mean by that? Fixed lower part?

About the TV:
My suggestion against boring symmetry: leave out the window in the living room area on the west side and put it on the north side or place a group of three in the middle on the west side plus one meter on the north. Then the TV spot results.

I don’t find absolute symmetry particularly desirable, especially for "city villas." It then looks like a cube. So it can definitely be something other than symmetrical. On the north side, however, a window is hardly possible because the garage stands up to 2.7 m in front of the house edge NW.

I like the ground floor better this way. The WC is now too small for the shower

No floor-to-ceiling windows
Our children's rooms are 19 sqm in size
They have no floor-to-ceiling windows
To the south, the windows are about 1.5 m wide and in the east and west about 80 cm
The rooms are bright

I like floor-to-ceiling windows in the children's room, my daughter loves her window and usually lets the sun in nicely so that it becomes at least 28 degrees in summer, otherwise it's too cold for her. Your ceilings will probably be quite low when I look at your window heights and stair steps. In your large living space, ceilings that are too low feel very oppressive. Best regards Sabine

Why? Our idea was: you enter the bathroom, undress, and turn left into the shower. If swapped, you would always have to walk naked directly past the window. Besides, in the current design, there is daylight in the toilet area. The T doesn't necessarily have to be there.

Then take a look at your bathroom ;)

What do you mean by that? The lower part fixed?

No, parapet! Wall with window sill. It is more appropriate in bedrooms.

On the north side, however, not much is possible with a window, since the garage stands up to 2.7 m in front of the house edge NW.

That's enough!

I actually found the entrance area in the original post quite okay. Also the shower. I can't really see a huge improvement now - but it works too. More a matter of taste. What would bother me much more, honestly, is the fireplace. The bulky lump as a room divider makes the room, in my opinion, rather dwarfish and cramped than cozy. Don’t you maybe want to switch to a flat gable roof and put the fireplace on the exterior wall instead? :D

Where is the television located?