As an example, I am really glad about the objection whether a chest freezer would even fit into the pantry (which we would like to have just for feeding the dog raw food, I don’t want that in the fridge). I also have to honestly say that especially through your inquiries/objections/"scolding" towards the planner, I am getting more and more dissatisfied with this "ruined standard floor plan."
We’re glad if we were able to make the poor performance of your planner clear to you, and that you are now on the way to becoming a more demanding consumer of planning services. After all, a carelessly planned house doesn’t cost less money. That I currently have to give a new cookie consent for every single (!) page turn makes me a bit lazy to check — but at least it feels like the info about the raw-fed dog is new to me. Such seemingly minor details can be essential when it comes to advising you appropriately.
The more I calculate, move around, and plan based on this floor plan, the worse the solution gets. Without going into more detail about the floor plan I posted: How should I best proceed to be more successful on the second attempt? I got myself a floor plan software and am currently redrawing our wishes here, combined with your valuable suggestions (here all individual measurements are also given). Should I post my new plan again? Or do you say straight away "please go back to the planner/someone else and have everything redrawn"?
The more you (which is no shame) are an absolute layperson, the more you need an absolute professional by your side. So don’t go to the draftsman of a general contractor, but to a freely commissioned independent architect. With her, you only talk about your wishes, i.e., make a list of the required rooms and special needs (see above, the dog and its food not in the family fridge), if necessary you also show her pictures from Instagram / Pinterest & Co if you have fallen in love with details there that should appear in the design one way or another. If you plan at all yourself, never show the expert the result before her own or jointly developed ideas. And don’t exhaust yourself learning software. Sketch a roof or upper floor with pencil and graph paper and then lay tracing paper over it, on which you develop the ground floor accordingly. I’m also professionally looking for architects and construction companies, have the same username at gmx de as here, and if you google bauen-jetzt (building now), you can read the given planning tip and more in detail.
I have to say I am a bit disappointed about what came out of our design. Sure, we said it would be great if the bedroom filled the whole bay window, maybe with a slanted wall so the other rooms aren’t so small, but that it would be implemented exactly 1:1 like that? Actually, I’m with a planner because I have no idea and he is supposed to show me with expertise that my way is wrong or that he has a much more efficient one.
It is still not clear to me what input you contributed to the plan shown here, and where you were poorly listened to.
Planning expertise you regularly won’t find at a
construction contractor; for that, you need to go to a proper architect. In individual cases, that may not be necessary, I’m happy to guide you to other options if those are more efficient for your project. What can never work well, as mentioned, is to take a standard design and then "stuff in" additional wishes (which inevitably happens whenever you just pour in more wishes without adding more space). Such a slanted wall as in the example unfortunately leads to undesirably complicated detailed connections of the components to each other; the expert (or also the crime scene photographer or the zoo specialist retailer) must and can come up with something better.