Single-family house 160m2 with basement, 500m2 plot

already saying: "Guests" + WC, so a rarely and only very briefly used room,

I see it differently: it is the toilet on the ground floor – the next one, that is, when you come home, need to use the toilet while cooking or gardening, in the evening during family sitting need to use the toilet… with 5 people it is constantly used!

I think you should simply completely redesign (have redesigned!) this layout on the ground floor;

Yes, I would too – the spatial proportions of the upper floor to the ground floor are not in proportion.

I don't understand the argument that the guest toilet is only used by guests. Our ground floor toilet is used several times daily by all residents of the house. Only rarely does someone go upstairs to the bathrooms for a quick toilet visit or to wash their hands. Is it different for you?

Damn - that was already said

As soon as this would restrict another important function, the window in the guest bathroom would probably be the first on the chopping block.

And what would that be? I don't see anything... of course... for now... but the draft is not finished, nor close to it. There is enough space. See #61

I see it differently: it’s the toilet on the ground floor – the next one, that is, when you come home, need to go to the toilet while cooking or gardening, or in the evening during family sitting... with 5 people, it’s constantly used!

Yes, I would too – the proportion of the upper floor to the ground floor is not balanced.

I prefer shower bathrooms, so with so many people I would anyway consider a shower/WC also on the ground floor (this garden staff is constantly getting dirty). I wouldn’t mind that anymore and the space is there (just not well planned). , since you have a master bathroom upstairs plus an extra children’s bathroom with THREE sinks, the proportion of the wet room distribution wouldn’t work for me so far. Better to have 2 fewer sinks upstairs and a shower/WC also on the ground floor. Children are just as often upstairs as downstairs and don’t always run upstairs to the sink assigned to them but rather go to wherever is easiest. Children are brilliantly simple like that... if only we had kept more of that ourselves! You now have many new ideas here and with that I would go to (another) planner or at least have a floor plan of my wishes drawn up somewhere else! In that respect, I have to agree with , since you are a large family mostly staying on the ground floor; an adequate bathroom or shower/WC would be appropriate there, as you have five sinks, two showers, and a bathtub upstairs, where you are rather rarely or mostly just sleeping.

Yes, I would too - the area ratios of the upper floor to the ground floor are not proportional.

I especially don’t see it as proportional that essentials like where which rooms go are still being overturned when the preliminary design phase (or was this phase even skipped?) should have long been completed. It seems to me that the spatial volume distribution is already not well thought out here.

Wow, thanks for your input!

What is shown here is the architect’s second planning attempt. We are actually more the problem because in the beginning we didn’t know what we wanted and were just trying things out. Of course, I don’t need a 20sqm foyer... stairs and other walls would be adjusted. I am currently leaning more towards a landing staircase because that way I simply create more living space on the ground floor and still have a decent hallway.

But we are absolutely in the preliminary planning phase. We have talked to 4 companies, received plans, and have now simply decided on the construction company based on many parameters. So the planning is really just beginning now. The architect has so far simply held back her professional opinion 100% and showed what we gave her as input. Changing the construction company now would be more than exaggerated. Of course, a freelance architect/living space artist would do it differently, but we can’t afford that and it’s a construction model that doesn’t suit us.

Therefore, I am still grateful for your help here since you provide us with input for the next meeting with the architect.

The shower bathroom in the basement comes from the consideration that we have the guest room in the basement and also spend a lot of time there. Both work from home.

A guest WC without a window is a no-go for my wife, but if that really makes everything else better, then it’s okay.

But yes, the biggest issue right now is the stair position. It’s just not good like that. However, we find the upper floor very successful and are afraid that a new stairway will ruin everything upstairs.