Single-family house - Captain's house - 150m² - New construction - Tips needed

That means the first preliminary draft is done, we have three free.

The draft is coming out of the drawer, don’t let yourselves be taken advantage of: originally, the dressing room was in the dormer on the upper floor (see the label in the section). "Child 1" was the bedroom and the door was in the slanted wall. Therefore, I would firstly insist that you still have three drafts free, because this apparently was the draft for someone else.

I find the space between the dining table and the kitchen wall wasted, what is the plan for it? Surely something better can be made out of it?
I would remove the partition wall, this would be a good place for an island with a counter and stools.
Are the 3.71m between the sofa and TV enough for you? Maybe more space could be created here if some is taken from the hallway.
After all, the living room is the lounge area, not the hallway.

As a suggestion, here is the Maxime 305, where the kitchen could also be shifted a bit to the left. I find the layout quite nice.
A dedicated workspace could be omitted. You could also set up a nice pantry all the way to the left.
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The south side, on the other hand, faces the street, and that is why the gable makes more sense there in our case.

I was imprecise: "classic" has the captain’s gable on the side of the street that provides access and thus, so to speak, "crowns" the honorary entrance. The combination of a rear honorary entrance, a corner plot with a more suitable access side at the gable, and ultimately the captain’s gable on the garden side is so unclassic that this alone tempted me to rotate the house. What does the development plan say beyond the "site plan" excerpt shown here so far? (ridge direction, house axis, et cetera)

To be honest, I have no idea what you want in the kitchen now: island, bar, dining table...?
I would simply differentiate for you a) what you WANT and b) what is POSSIBLE. And then have it planned accordingly.

Thank you, we tried to narrow it down again and came to the conclusion that basically the four of us can always eat at the large dining table (if the walk isn’t as far as in the first draft!) and such a counter area would be nice for a quick breakfast, but 3 seats are enough.

I don’t like the living room at all: with 32 sqm it’s compact, but the first 10 sqm are not used. The impression with the furniture is deceptive. Draw your furniture to scale... then you’ll see where it gets tight.
With a refrigerator one meter wide, sitting in bed on Sunday morning won’t work...

I don’t like the living room either. I will measure the necessary distances in our current apartment again.

Oh, we don’t do long morning sitting-in-bed anyway At the moment we have 77 cm between bed and wardrobe and I find it perfect that I can sit on the edge of the bed in the morning and look for sweaters in the lowest drawer Since we also pack suitcases quite often, a huge distance between wardrobe and bed would bother me more, because you can nicely arrange everything on the bed like that.

The draft comes from the drawer, don’t let yourselves be fooled: originally the dressing room was in the dormer on the upper floor (see label in the section). "Child 1" was the bedroom and the door was in the slanted wall. I would insist first of all that you still have 3 drafts free, because apparently this draft was for someone else.

You misunderstood that, we actually worked out the draft with the architect.

I would remove the partition wall, an island with counter and stools would be suitable here.

I tried that – but it doesn’t solve the problem that there is so much free space in the middle.

Is 3.71 m between sofa and TV enough for you? Maybe you could create more space here by taking a bit away from the hallway. After all, the living room is the common room, not the hallway.

Yes, that’s an idea. I’ll measure again how much we have now.

As a suggestion, here’s the Maxime 305, the kitchen could also be shifted a bit to the left here. I find the layout quite nice.
The office could then be omitted. You could also set up a nice pantry all the way on the left.

That is really a nice layout. But due to our gable it is not that easy to replicate. I don’t want to remove the terrace elements because of the look or have them different on both sides, and I don’t need a terrace door (or big window) in the pantry.

I expressed myself imprecisely there: "classic" means the captain’s gable belongs on the side of the access road and thus “crowns” the honorary entrance in a way. The combination of a rear honorary entrance, corner plot with the more suitable access side at the gable side, and finally the captain’s gable on the garden side is so unclassic that this alone tempted me to rotate the house. What does the development plan say beyond the "site plan" section shown here? (ridge direction, house axis, etc.)

There are no requirements for the house orientation in the development plan. Thanks for the detailed explanation, but we don’t take the “honorary entrance” that literally now. I have also seen several captain’s houses on corner plots in new developments like that.

Attached are my two considerations.
Idea 1: Kitchen stays where it is, kitchen island with 3 seats (the kitchen island in the picture is 1.60 x 1.20 m with 1.20 m space to refrigerator/oven)
+ Terrace accessible from kitchen
+ Passage kitchen - utility room/pantry
+ 3 tall cabinets possible in kitchen (fridge, oven/microwave combo, dishwasher)
- Distance from kitchen to dining table 5-6 meters
- Living room more compact (3.71 m long, 3.30 m wide)

Idea 2: Swap kitchen and living room
+ Distance from kitchen to dining table 2-3 meters
+ Living room more spacious (3.80 m long, 4 m wide)
- Longer way to utility room/pantry, no more passage
- Longer way to terrace through bay window
- More compact kitchen, possibly no longer 3 tall cabinets possible?

Variant 1 has the clear advantage .. kitchen on the terrace and the sofa is definitely not in front of a floor-to-ceiling window.

However, 2 accesses to the utility room should not be necessary. Also, the zigzag line for the all-room access should be straightened, then there will still be storage space under the stairs, e.g. for shoes, bags, hats, etc. And the window position in the utility room would have to be adjusted, etc., because right now a wide corridor is wasted for about 170 cm of shelving.

I somehow find this house width neither fish nor fowl. It is too narrow to align the living room, but actually too wide because a lot of useless space is created in the middle, which is missing for the living room. The layout of the children's rooms upstairs is also a mess, and this hallway is absolutely not acceptable.

If it were mine, I would go for more width and bring all living rooms on the ground floor to the terrace (same floor area = cost-neutral). Plus a decent pantry, a bathroom with an extra shower for the dog or dad ( ) as well as a utility room.
Upstairs decent children's rooms that share the captain’s bed and thus bring the southern sun into the room. Here I treat myself to French balconies for my darlings.

Since there is no longer space for the washing machine, there is a laundry chute down to the utility room as compensation. From there there is a door directly to the laundry area.
4 meters of closet space in the bedroom offer enough room for a suit and ball gown.

The narrower house also immediately enlarges the garden.

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