Single-family house 175 sqm without basement, too big?

- I understand having a window in the pantry for light, we still need to think about that. However, I don't find a countertop in the pantry sensible, then you basically have a kind of second kitchen. I’m not putting the food processor there and then carrying the ingredients/dough back and forth between pantry and kitchen during preparation. The pantry should serve purely for storage.

- We need to consider access through the dressing room into the bedroom. But I’m critical about the bathroom... I don’t want the junior to have to walk through the dressing room to get to the bathroom. The idea was also that an adult can wait in the "private area" if the bathroom is occupied, ideally even in an "inconvenient" situation. If I didn’t value this privacy, the bathroom would have only one entrance from the hallway.

- In the ground floor you can quickly move the stairs. So far, so good. But then you completely mess up the entire upper floor. I’ve tried several times anyway and can’t sensibly divide it. But I’m very open to other suggestions!

- I really don’t like making windows deliberately floor-to-ceiling in places where there will definitely be furniture in front of them. Besides, I don’t want a window opposite the TV. From experience, it causes a lot of glare when the sun shines. I still don’t understand the railing at the "stair window."

- So windows aren’t outdated if they are wider than tall. But the window in the office is, right? Then why the criticism?

- If you don’t close the shutters in summer, the bedroom will definitely become unbearably hot. If I close the shutters properly, it shouldn’t matter whether the window is floor-to-ceiling or not, right?

- We simply don’t want a bathtub, whether freestanding, built-in, recessed, or tacked to the ceiling.

If I didn't value this privacy

I don't understand that. What use are two entrance doors to the bathroom for privacy? It's rather the opposite, for example if a child visitor only locks one door because they don't know that someone can also burst in through the other.

Deliberately making windows floor-to-ceiling in places where furniture is definitely supposed to go in front of them does not please me.

- On the ground floor, you quickly move the staircase. So far, so good. But then you destroy the entire upper floor.

Besides, I don’t want a window opposite the TV.

Sorry, we won’t come together like this if you twist words. I never wrote any of that. And if the staircase were to be completely moved, I would say: throw it all in the trash.

So windows are not old-fashioned if they are wider than they are tall. But that’s the window in the office, isn’t it? So why the criticism?

The office window, like your staircase window, doesn’t fit with the rest of it.
Unfortunately, your architect only draws what you imagine... have you looked left and right at other floor plan discussions?

Maybe you should just think about next week whether you always want to walk around dressing room walls and kitchen walls, put access ways to rooms at the back of the house or far from the hallway, thus planning additional walking distances instead of the direct way, and about the difference between the variables 3 meters and 3.50.
It’ll be fine.

if you did not mean that, I apologize for the misinterpretation. Unfortunately, I simply do not understand what you want to tell me, sorry.

Sliding doors as terrace doors have two major advantages: 1) When the door is open, there is no impractical wing in the room that can get in the way. 2) The door does not slam shut with every gust of wind, but only actually closes when you really want it to. However, for a sliding door you need a rather larger opening. 2.01 would be very tight. : what is a reasonable minimum width here?

I’ll start with the façades, unfortunately they are all complete rubbish. In this cacophony, the concertmaster apparently couldn’t even decide between symphony and heavy metal. Bring some order into it: 1. all the floor-to-ceiling elements on the upper floor get the sill height of 49 cm so that their vertical centers resonate with those of the eaves-side windows – the now floor-to-ceiling elements thus reach the height of 160.5 cm; 2. the children also get eaves-side windows, namely Child 2 above the kitchen window and Child 1 above the dining room window shifted 1 m further away from the corner of the house, the width is identical to that of the dressing room and bathroom, and each is aligned centrally with the 26 cm wider windows on the ground floor; 3. in the same sense, the dressing room window is set to a width of 138 and thus fully above that of the study; shift the dining room gable window 110 cm towards the center (right-aligned with that of Child 1) and give it the sill height of the eaves-side living room window; 4. narrow the stairwell window to 73 (like the one by the toilet) and double it into the ground floor (same size as those of WC and technical room), the WC window is placed right-aligned beneath that of Child 2. And “voila” (in thirteen moves) what was a big mess turns into almost top notch – actually simple if you know how

: I don’t want to open the door here to give the thread an unbearable drive à la – that’s why I won’t deviate from the planned terrace door variant but recommend keeping it as is (double-leaf with mullion) – however switching to a 60/40 division. Normally the answer to your question would be “from 251” (and single-leaf from 113, hence the advice for the changed division), but as I said: please not here, an endless story in my opinion is already more than enough.

As for kitchen and terrain, I can only say that they don’t convince me, but don’t provide a healing plan. I’m a bit puzzled by the WDVS in the plan representation – isn’t the insulation stuff usually integrated with prefab houses rather than just stuck on?

What generally makes the floor plan criticism somewhat difficult is the “fold line” instead of a usual 2m height line; so we are probably dealing here with an approximate two-meter-fifty / two-meter-sixty height line (?)