Single-family house - Design planning - Request for feedback

Hello, are there no more tips/objections/recommendations from your side?

Rooms 5 and 9 look very narrow. But talking about it without measurements is pointless. Room 14 is a joke to me and completely out of the question, but again, no statement is possible without measurements. Of all places, the washing machine is supposed to stand there – one can only hope that the planner has to do the laundry.

The window above the stairs might be tricky to operate. Try putting a curtain on it!

Does your staircase have 12 or 13 steps? No measurements… Ceiling height and stair dimensions should be more precise after this planning phase.

I don’t like the fireplace standing in the room like that. It looks more like an obstacle than a room divider.

It’s also a pity that the kids have to run all the way from the bedroom to the bathroom at the back, while the parents’ bathroom is actually much closer – but okay. What’s stupid, however, is that the child in room 10 gets little sleep because they sleep with their ear next to the parents’ toilet flush.

Otherwise, I like the living area and kitchen. The counter is a bit too wide, but that has nothing to do with the house.

I can't ask the draftsman for a new drawing for every change.

What kind of sh... program is this that you can't get any measurements and proper floor plans out of it?

, thank you for your feedback. At least it seems to me that it is not a total disaster for you. I will try to adjust the mentioned rooms. Maybe I will manage to transfer the Homebyme drawing to Autocar this evening.

Is there actually a strategy when the GCs tell you, "No, we won’t build on a foundation slab we don’t know," or "We will build, but we won’t give you any warranty on the shell"? Anything could happen.

It all sounds like a "never ending story." I also find it fatal to simply accept €200k in additional costs (even if you can perhaps afford it) just because you approached the land purchase too naively.

You might have also saved yourself many sleepless nights if you had planned with a professional and not with a draftsman. Because an architect approaches things quite differently and helps you not only with the floor plan but also with authorities/trades.

Unfortunately, I don’t remember exactly with so many pages, but does your draftsman know your plot and the development plan? What about the building permit (still valid? Can it be transferred?). Maybe the previous owner simply sold because something had already gone wrong in his planning and execution?

Hello, are there no more tips/objections/recommendations from your side?

You simply cannot make out the attic floor plan; it was only through that I noticed room 14. What is the purpose of that room?

It is also difficult to evaluate the floor plans because measurements are missing. We are already (again) on page 20 and the basic information needed to assess the plans is still missing. That puts some people off. It is clear that the draftsman cannot draw every variant for you, as that would cost him hours, which he understandably wants to be paid for.

It has probably been suggested here many times already: detach yourself from the drawing program and take a ruler, scissors, and paper in hand. Draw or print to scale stairs and furniture and move them around on the paper. Dimensions can also be quickly measured and clearly written on the paper for everyone to understand. Don’t forget wall thicknesses.

Once the floor plan is set, you could even develop a model from it.

I will commission the manual as soon as the distribution fits.

I meant that your Picassos may be perfectly clear to you, but hardly understandable to other readers. Is room 14 supposed to be a storage room? - the "hallway" probably represents the stairs. Overall, overlaying the colorful painting and the plan of the previous building is of little help for the readability of the overall composition. And where no one can make sense of it, there is little commentary written about it. You have to form an opinion first, and for that, recognizing what is meant is the first step.

At least it seems to me that it is not a total disaster for you.

Neither for me - but I can only say that as a "guess," the drawing is simply not clearly understandable (which in my opinion is not a question of missing dimensions, I also orient myself using proportions).

I don’t like the fireplace standing in the room like that.

Fireplace? - I suspect the shaft next to the children's cabinets is supposed to represent something like that (but it does not stand above what looks like a fireplace on the ground floor)?

Is there actually a strategy if the general contractors tell you, "No, we will not build on a slab we don’t know," or "we will build, but we give you no warranty on the shell"? Anything can happen.

From this perspective, honestly, I see no choice, since there is practically no alternative to the contractor who started the construction.

You might also have spared yourself many sleepless nights if you had planned with a professional and not with a draftsman. [...] Maybe the previous owner simply sold because something already went wrong with his planning and implementation?

"Oh" (to quote Loriot again). It seems to me I already made such comments on this.