Single-family house design 250 m², 2 full floors with hipped roof

Such self-designed projects are quite nice to get a feel for the matter. However, I wouldn't expect more than that now and let a professional handle it.

But not at all: the professional creates the same sense of space with fewer square meters, and then you can no longer brag about having gotten a fancy house for that money.

state? I downplayed the issue. sry

brag? I downplayed the topic.

*grins* Even "downplayed," the fortyth of a hectare remains 250 sqm (in words: two hundred fifty).

Personally, I don’t care here whether someone needs 250sqm or more for showing off or living. Everyone as they want and can.

This is about floor plans. And this one is unfortunately bad. I agree with my predecessors: here a floor plan has been blown up from small to large, without the "more" square meters also giving more living comfort or feeling. It just costs more. That would be too stupid for me personally. If "more," then I want to get something out of it. For me, that would lead to throwing this floor plan straight into the trash.

Just a little food for thought:
With a house like this, you somehow expect a nice entrance. I don’t find that here.
The balance between kitchen/dining and living area is missing. The kitchen is such a disaster... or just a fitness studio because of the walking distances.

The upper floor is a disaster!
A trapped dressing room is never a good idea; why, has already been discussed here (does nobody actually read older posts before dumping their outpouring here? That could save some explanations for the hundredth time…)
The bathroom can be done better too.
We also have a sauna in the bathroom and it really makes sense to me, because why put a sauna in the basement or somewhere else where you also need a shower etc. separately? Besides, for example, you can even give the sauna a window and look outside while sweating. Also nicer than in the basement. But why an extra relaxation area when I have my comfortable beds there? I’d use those and not the loungers 5m away! Think about it.
With the size and two planned children, I would always consider a utility room for laundry on the upper floor.

I find the exterior ugly. Somehow nothing fits together. I am also a fan of "form follows function," but that doesn’t mean the exterior facade shouldn’t be a bit pleasing as well. When I look at the house like this, it seems to me more like a house that has been rebuilt and extended dozens of times rather than a house planned from the ground up as a whole. But that is always a matter of taste.

Sorry: correct me regarding the exterior view. I had something different in mind. The exterior view is okay (apart from the fact that I don't like city villas, but that's my personal opinion)

Honestly, I find all the designs shown here so far simply unusable. We even built 260m², I also presented my own designs here (house self-designed) and had to go through some tough comments. But shall I tell you something? The members here were often right. I learned a lot, continuously optimized our floor plan, and in the end, a beautiful, large, and purpose-optimized house emerged that offers plenty of space to live, work, and enjoy.

We included practical things like a utility room on the upper floor, 2 children's rooms, a large bathroom (accessible from dressing room AND hallway), a nice office on the ground floor, lots of space in the open kitchen with island, large dining area, etc.....

A small example since you always come with some catalog photos: Our kitchen is 18m², open on two sides, with an island that is 2.40m x 1.20m..... when the kitchen was installed, I was initially overwhelmed by how big it really is.... it almost knocked me out! But we followed tips that there should be about 1.20m distance between the individual areas in the kitchen (so built-in cabinet to island or work surface to island). This is truly ideal, two people can easily work together without getting in each other's way and you are only a 180° turn away from the next surface.

By the way, our house costs us 539k, without additional construction costs, without floors, without tiles, without sanitary fittings. Altogether we spent just under 700k without the land.