Single-family house floor plan / Feedback, criticism and suggestions

225 sqm just because one forgot to teach their offspring that outgrown toys can be given away too? - then I see the next house "needing" 280 sqm and so on. For construction cost discipline, it is also important not to shy away from "boring" building forms. There are too many corners here for me to count. The self-planner quickly escalates with a colorful dream house Dreideh to Hollywood-like dimensions. Just google Target Costing, and then try that with living space. That slimmer alternative designs "lack" the extra bulges is not a bug, but a feature, even if the result logically looks different.

By the way, flirting with self-employment also means that your wife has to support the family alone for the next three years, and I already assume there is sufficient capital for the business.

What’s next, off to the architect or developer/GU.

Developer? - I thought the land is already bought?
With a GU you won’t solve your planning dilemma: a GU hired hand only does service phase 4 compared to an architect. However, the desired budget gap is closed in service phases 1 and 2* - after that, the train has left the station. I join Yvonne’s question as to what the alternative design of the GU might look like.
*) namely through grieving over expensive gimmicks that have to remain dreams

Hello everyone, thank you for the lively participation. Even though it is only about the matter, some statements have little to do with the actual topic. We/I am/was aware that the floor plan is not feasible for the price expectations due to size, etc. The statement should have been made more clearly. The question of whether the floor plan can be reduced here and there was clearly denied. I believe that our desired room program is not so unusual. The proposals received so far just did not please. In other words, your tenor accordingly, start all over again and begin from scratch. Have a nice evening

The proposals received so far simply haven't been liked.

We still can't say anything about that because it is not known. Normally, general contractor drafts are discussed when the general contractor and their draft already exist, in order to optimize it so that it fits the wishes of the technical editor. I assume that it is not even that bad and works. It just doesn't fit into your dream scheme.

Speak your tenor accordingly, start everything from the beginning again and anew.

But first show the alternative(s) and explain what was disliked about each.

And then also implement the furnishing wishes in the intended rooms. Dimensions are missing in the floor plan, but I do not see an island, for example, in the kitchen area.

Pantry is a narrow corridor where only a freezer or similar can stand at the bottom or top of the plan, but not along the long wall.

Many square meters in living/dining, but with furnishing it is rather always a workaround.

Children's room facing northeast.

Even if it’s just about the matter, some statements have little to do with the actual topic.

I completely agree with you there, unfortunately the topic is often completely changed without reference to the actual question. I would like to give you a few fundamental considerations from me / us as impulses for the coming, probably new planning. The straight staircase requires the most space in terms of the hallway. You have to be able to walk completely past it on both the ground floor and the upper floor. With a quarter-turn or half-turn staircase you might be able to optimize / reduce the hallways a bit. We didn’t even plan 4m² of hallway on the upper floor, I just walk through there only to the bedroom anyway ;) Your bedroom should be about 3m x 4m so that a bed with a bedside table fits easily including the traffic areas. Cooking + eating + living works from 30m², becomes spacious at about 40m² and luxurious from 50m², always depending on the individual walls and room concepts, but as a guideline. Wet rooms become exponentially more expensive with their size, so it makes sense to question every sqm twice here (applies to kitchen and bathrooms). And last but not least maybe... Don’t plan your house first and then look at the plot, but the other way around. What view do you want from the kitchen / living room window? Where should the terrace be and from which room do you want to enter it? Is there a slope on the plot, a nice neighboring building, or a noisy street or industry on one side? These considerations can already manifest a lot before a single line of the floor plan has been drawn. Good luck and best regards