Single-family house design with a gabled roof at the edge of the construction area

I am more familiar with the fact that as soon as sunlight comes through the window, the blinds are lowered because of heat and furniture protection. Therefore, I would not find windows that, due to their orientation, let in daylight but no sun rays, so bad at all.

Windows are great and not uncomfortable. I feel trapped without much window space.

Sun rays are a burden for 6 months of the year and welcome for 6 months.

Our main terrace faces northwest towards the play area and is close to the coffee machine.

In spring or late autumn, the garden chair sometimes moves to the south.

The courtyard as a Bobby car track was never used. The skate park was and is more popular. It even started to let the O-ball cars drive there.

I find variant 1 from quite charming. There is not much traffic, a hedge to the south for privacy, and you have a protected south-facing area. Even with your plan, I would have removed the bikes there, privacy screen in the south, so that a few sun rays still land on the terrace.

Did you mark your actual furniture in the open area? I find the sofa quite small. 4m is narrow. I would perhaps try an L-shape arrangement with the layout from .

A wardrobe is missing. With children, everything needs a bit more space.

The bathroom upstairs makes noise.

How high have you planned the knee wall?
Have you planned dormers on both sides?

How high did you plan the knee wall?

Currently, we have planned 1.5m.
My wife would like it as high as possible and the preferred general contractor as low as possible.
We are not 100% decided on this yet.
I just didn’t really like the look as a two-story.

Did you plan dormers on both sides?

For now, only on the south side to provide the children with decent windows.
The general contractor had also already sent us a design with two dormers, but the dressing room was still in the north and would have had too little height and light without a dormer.
But we are quite open here as well.

I find variant 1 from quite charming. There isn’t much traffic, a hedge to the south for privacy, and you have a protected south area. Even with your plan, I would have moved the bikes away from there, privacy screen to the south, so that a few sun rays still land on the terrace.

The bikes were meant as a privacy screen for the terrace and also as storage. We don’t have a garage or a basement. Better to put the shed somewhere else?

Did you draw in your actual furniture for the all-purpose room?

Yes, those are our current pieces of furniture, which we would like to continue using to some extent, but of course we don't want to distort the layout for that. After all, 1m² of living space is more expensive than a new sofa. So we are of course open to improvements here as well.

I find the sofa quite small. 4m is narrow. I might still try an L-shape with the arrangement from

An L would probably move the kitchen away from the main garden. Even though we don’t have it like that currently, we imagine it would be great, for example, to integrate the grill into the cooking area or simply to be able to quickly step outside with something from the kitchen. But of course, it’s always a compromise, and the question is which compromise we end up accepting. At the moment we have everything laid out in “straight meters.” Often 4m (living area, dining area, carport, etc.). Would there be any gain if we shifted things a bit?

You take south sun on the terrace. Privacy screen as far as possible to the boundary

I would try it like this clockwise starting from the current guest room: becomes utility room, guest bathroom, living room becomes guest room, dining becomes kitchen, kitchen becomes dining, utility room, WC becomes living.
I would also let the terrace run a bit to the south
Privacy screen right at the boundary, so that the front garden becomes a more secluded garden with west sun