Single-family house, approximately 160m², Bauhaus style; first draft according to our wishes

I mean, I find your comments worth reading and partly amusing, but we really can't benefit much from your experience here

You just have to understand how to read my hints: if you expected to find a three-point plan for smoothing everything out with small corrections, you will inevitably be disappointed. But you can certainly benefit if you clearly perceive the message: in German, it says that you should send the planner into the desert, and also why: namely because he apparently plans without any idea of spatial effect. The result is a house where you can at least walk through without injury, but unfortunately also without any spark flying. "Maggi Fix for a Bauhaus-style cube" may be sufficiently fitting, but unfortunately, not esprit. But if you are already considering ...

- Simulation of hipped roof on the given house

... pouring ketchup and mayo on top, then you won’t really ruin much anymore.

You just have to understand my hints when reading: if you expected to find a three-point plan on how to smooth everything out with small corrections, you are bound to be disappointed. However, you can certainly benefit if you clearly perceive the message: in German, it says that the planner should be sent into the desert, and also why: namely because he apparently plans without any sense of spatial effect. As a result, you get a house that you can walk through without injury, but unfortunately also completely without any spark igniting. "Maggi Fix for Cubus à la Bauhaus" may have enough going for it, but unfortunately no esprit. But if you are already thinking of...

...pouring ketchup and mayo on top, then it won't really ruin much anymore.

The expectation is also not to receive a battle plan on a silver platter, but I find it difficult, without the experience that you undoubtedly seem to possess, to fully outline your hints.

The hint with the big hand to replace the planner seems to me too drastic a step that would not personally suit me, especially under the premise that this office only has one more planner. I find ketchup and mayo fine for now until it can qualify for a Michelin star.

however, I find it difficult [...] to fully outline your points.

Then I suppose in this case I unfortunately lack the ability to express myself clearly, and I will try again: when you step through the door frame into the bedroom shown here, your feeling will be: "I did not order it like this," or at least "an experienced professional should have informed me that this will look, to put it mildly, ‘functional’ at best." One should be able to expect from an architect that he is capable of designing a residential house. Planning purely for the approval stamp does not require an architect; the currently common market duo of a drafting assistant and an authorized plan submitter is sufficient. This house will not be beautiful! – and I mean this not in the sense of differing tastes, but rather the user of the architecture will get a feeling of petty-mindedness, by the way no less so in the bathroom than in the bedroom.

... desire for possibly a platform staircase ... realize that first before all your other changes can even take effect. Definitely, the new draft has gained a lot of charm in the living room. I also find the dining/cooking area better laid out.

What speaks against Katja's sketches from ... there is already space for a platform staircase, and the draft really looks very similar to the last one. An island kitchen is possible. A much better designed guest bathroom. And, so far it's only a quick draft and you can still refine it. Presumably, however, the front door will have to be moved back to the right side of the plan, since a backfilling is apparently necessary and therefore steps in front of the entrance.

By the way, a door in front of the hallway does not automatically keep dirt or anything like that out. Unfavorable in the planned vestibule are the two doors, both of which open into the room. One person is already leaving the house, the next wants to get something from a room and you don’t even know where to stand in this vestibule anymore.

The last draft ... are you considering only a strip window in the kitchen area, so that the kitchen area really gets a basement feeling? Excluding south and east light there? For the kitchen, there definitely should be a proper terrace exit that is situated so you don’t always have to navigate around the dining table.
Moving the fireplace towards the dining area in the current plan, so the living room receives an entrance, makes the passage to the dining area tight, at least with such a large fireplace. You might consider separating the room right away.

For me, the bedroom would also be too narrow at 338 cm width for the bed space, at least for a house of this size. And two bathroom entrances are always somehow annoying, especially when the first friends of children stay overnight with you. And that happens quite quickly once they are 5 or 6 years old.

Good point, that means I will either make the bathroom bigger or remodel it. 80cm between bathtub and sink actually bother me – I just measured the distance in our current bathroom – it’s 90cm and I don’t find the distance bad

Write down the dimensions of the shower + wall and those of the bathtub, then I’ll take a photo showing how much space remains so that there’s room to move with the pre-wall, or how it could look without a T.

What do you mean? Why is it unusable with size and door opening? We especially want a vestibule because: - taking off shoes, leaving dirt "outside," preserving "privacy" (postman, ...)

I do understand why you want a vestibule, we have one too, but simply due to the door arrangement and size, handling is difficult. In my case, because it’s open, you step down to the floor plan. With you, that doesn’t work. You go into the vestibule (door remains open and blocks everything down below). You open the front door, then the front door blocks the rest down below. Now three or four of you are standing in the vestibule, no one can hang up coats or take off shoes, and the front door can’t be closed because everyone’s in the way and no one can move aside.

Do you have examples?

Just my opinion. The wall in front of the stairs on the ground floor has no function; I could understand it at the stair ascent but at the stair descent? What for? In my opinion, it makes the room smaller. OK, I’m a fan of open floor plans. Niche built-in closet to the right in the ground floor next to the stairs? Is that where the fridge will go? Closet wall 3.38m? That’s at least 30cm too long and makes the passage narrow! Two 150cm open Pax wardrobes don’t need 338cm. Sure, not everyone is into Ikea, but neither is anyone up for a 3,000€ wardrobe from a carpenter! Again regarding controlled residential ventilation. The 25cm will really be missing with this floor plan. Think about whether you want to swap the guest WC with the cloakroom. Then you could misuse it as a pantry.

I also thought of the windbreak at first, has now explained it perfectly, but you can see it at first glance. It might still work alone (although the doors hitting each other are already awkward), but as soon as more than one person comes home at the same time, you will curse if you built it like that