Single-family house floor plan - narrower possible? First ideas

Hello everyone,

I would like to share my first floor plan attempt (ground floor) with you today.
The building will be a 1.5-story single-family house with a gable roof, and the biggest problem for us is the floor plan for the ground floor.

Attached is the half-dimensioned sketch.

It is relatively difficult for me to estimate in front of the screen whether the floor plan is practical for everyday use.

The following comments in advance about the floor plan:
- The doors to the living and dining area should be sliding doors (towards the sofa, the staircase is already over 2 m high)
- The straight staircase in the hallway should become an eyecatcher
- The sofa and the entertainment unit are to scale
- The windows are only placeholders
- The front door should open in reverse, but unfortunately the program could not do that
- The utility room is 2.50 m wide
- North is at the bottom by the entrance

The following wishes/ideas:
- Lift-and-slide door about 3.50 m long (ideally centered - but this won't work due to the living area)
- Dining table 2 m in length
- Kitchen with island
- Guest WC as small as possible (two bathrooms are planned upstairs)
- I would prefer the house to be 1 m narrower (7.45 instead of 8.45)

Question:
- Is there enough freedom of movement?
- Can the house be about 1 m narrower? Our priority here is reducing the floor space and the appearance. We would like the house to be narrower, but we are struggling with implementation due to the staircase.
- What would you change?

I would then proceed with part 2 and then upload everything completely with the completed questionnaire.

I would like to share my first floor plan attempt (ground floor) with you today.

Actually, this pleases me, but unfortunately I cannot follow the drawing. Five boxes are roughly 1.07 m (?), which does not make much sense even as an English measure. The inscribed dimensions also do not help to clarify, so neither the scale nor the measurements are useful. Visually, I am still sure that your wall thicknesses are not suitable – therefore a change towards reduction would probably be rejected at this point. According to your understanding of the plan, why is the result 8.45 m here, and where is a whole meter to be saved supposed to come from? Whoever slips up gets another chance, my late grandmother used to say.

Actually, that pleases me, but unfortunately I cannot understand the drawing. Five boxes are approximately 1.07 m (?), which makes no real sense as an English measurement either. The inscribed dimensions also do not clarify anything, so neither the scale nor the measurements are useful. Visually, I am still sure that your wall thicknesses are not suitable - so a change now in the direction of reduction would probably be rejected. According to your plan understanding, why is it 8.45 m in the end and where should a whole meter of savings come from? Whoever slips can try again, my late grandmother used to say.

But the scale is considered above, isn't it? Unfortunately, the exterior walls really do not fit because the program did not have thicker ones. As of now, it should be 9 m, but I only want 8 m. Length 11.5 m. I have subtracted the difference to fit the interior space. Unfortunately, it was somewhat complicated.

also the scale is taken into account at the top, right?

You have created a scale that is authentic to your textual specifications. Furthermore, there is a grid underneath the drawing, from which one would naively expect that five squares of 20 cm each would represent one meter. But three meters are represented parallel on 14 squares, which was my first association that your drawing program works with English measurements - but even then, 1.07 m made no sense. This spoils the provisional orientation for the observer, where measurements are missing or not assignable to distances.

Unfortunately, the outer walls really don't fit because the program didn't have thicker ones.

What software have you repurposed here?

Different staircase, smaller hallway, and it could work. The staircase doesn't work. Door, coats, and shoes under the staircase ruin everything. For that, you have a huge hallway with zero use. However, the upstairs [OG] must also be considered.

What if you place the staircase on the other side of the wall (in the [EZ]) and save yourself a passage? Then you could possibly save the one meter in the entrance area and have enough space for a decent wardrobe. The staircase wouldn’t really make an impact over the distance anyway. If you’re already making a staircase a centerpiece, then I would like to see it in the living/dining area and not just when you come in.