Single-family house floor plan approx. 190m² - Optimizations

I think that the house is basically not really tailored to the OP yet.

There could be some truth to that :-(

-Architect + our ideas / adjustments [...] We would adopt the basement floor 1 to 1 like that. [...] We also like the size of the children's rooms on the upper floor. [...] we would like a niche etc. for shoes, jackets, etc., so that you don’t "stumble" directly over them or everything is immediately visible. [...] From today’s perspective, we would want to change the most on the upper floor: We don’t like the access to the bedroom through the "dressing area". [...] Although the roof terrace is not a must and if so, it will also not be above the entrance at the front.

Overall, that all sounds much more like a reworked draft from previous clients rather than the architect "freshly" designing for this client.

What I don't quite understand: you only have 3-5 guests a year, but reserve a huge room for them. What happens to the room otherwise? I would combine work and guest there and thus gain enough space upstairs to get a meaningful dressing room (the captive dressing rooms are not), possibly also set up a small utility room there and let light into the hallway in an architecturally beautiful way. The long corridor it has now is simply wasted space and also looks sh... Then rather a skylight instead of this corridor. With only one child, one can also consider whether the children's room could still be combined with

What I don't quite understand: you only have 3-5 guests a year, but reserve a huge room for them. What happens to the room otherwise?

If the 2nd room upstairs is meant, it is not intended as a guest room. Either our junior gets it as his own “living room” etc. Alternatively – if we have another child – it will be a 2nd children's room. Hence also the roughly same sizes. Our guests will probably have to take a place on a sofa bed downstairs in the study, which should be bearable for the few times.

I look at many plans and site plans here and at some point I just don't feel like constantly figuring out which site plan belongs to which house plan - such a small north arrow makes things much easier. When people are seeking advice, I don't think it's too much to ask to at least scribble a north arrow for them.

off topic but just my 2 cents

Sorry the north is towards the street. The terrace is on the south.

Hello again

Thank you very much for the many comments!
I believe the house is not yet perfectly tailored to us, you hit the nail on the head with that. Please don’t take it the wrong way, we don’t think it’s fundamentally bad, but somehow also very "standard".

To clarify again our requirements for the house:
Ground floor: open living/dining area preferably with a kitchen island, adjoining pantry, a study which could possibly also be used as a bedroom later (just in case...). Guests will then also stay on a sofa bed/mattress etc. in the study. Shower bath, dressing niche, and a staircase which should not be in the living/dining area. (Personally, we like a half-landing staircase very much – if the floor plan requires a straight staircase that would also be okay. We just don’t want a spiral staircase.)
Upper floor: bathroom with walk-in shower + bathtub, bedroom with dressing room (as described, it would be nice if you enter the room and are not immediately in the dressing room) and additionally 2 nearly equal-sized rooms. Room 1 will definitely be for our son and Room 2 is possibly intended as a small living room or similar also for him. And if we have another child, the 2nd room will be used as a "normal" children’s room.
Possibly the use of the garage as a rooftop terrace for our son with friends. However, this is not a must...
Basement: music room, large hobby room, laundry room, storage room including technical equipment.

I hope this helps to better understand what is important to us.

Once again, thank you very much for the suggestions.

Here is another version with a kitchen bay and gallery. Bathroom in the east.

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I really like the kitchen bay; it makes the area not feel so long. I assume the dressing niche is supposed to be behind the pantry, right? Here we asked ourselves whether it might be quite dark without direct daylight? Of course, you can install spotlights, etc. Does anyone have experience with this?

I also like the floor plan on the upper floor, although we would probably forgo the children’s bathroom (2 bathrooms are enough to clean ). The bay could possibly even be used as a small balcony, or is that too narrow? Thanks for all the ideas!

Ever talked to an architect? I mean, with the house size and a few wishes including the slope problem, you would have something custom designed...