Single-family house floor plan with gable roof - Please share your tips

Thank you for your first feedback.

The fireplace is coming out. I forgot to mention that. We are building 1.5 stories. However, the building plan allows quite a bit of freedom with the eaves height, so our knee wall should be just over 1m. The windows in the guest WC and the wardrobe are currently planned to be floor-to-ceiling? We want to make them somehow opaque...

Yes, the small window between the hallway and the living room is supposed to be a little highlight. We will place an L-sofa by the corner window. The dimensions of the currently drawn furniture fit this. The TV wall should then be as drawn on the recessed part towards the office.

Our main concern is that kitchen, dining area, and living room are next to each other within an external dimension of 11.36m (internal dimension about 10.40m)? Do you have any concerns that this might feel too cramped? It’s a house with >160m^2 and for the living area there are "only" about 50m^2?! Can someone warn us or assure us in this regard?

Hello, our kitchen, dining area, and living room are, just like yours, in a line. We have an interior dimension of about 10.60m x 4.20m. That is completely sufficient for us.

Regards

What would bother me now is that you always have to go through the kitchen from the garage to get into the house. I would therefore add the unused corner in the kitchen to the hallway. And upstairs, the entrance to the bedroom/dressing room would bother me. If you want to get into the dressing room, you first have to close the door from the inside to then be able to enter. Not very convenient with a laundry basket in hand. I would also move the door to the office a bit away from the wall so that you still have space for a wardrobe behind the door. Otherwise, I quite like the floor plan.
By the way, to your question: Our future living/dining room is also only 36m2 and we find that sufficient.

Yes, what also catches my attention is the kitchen door - utility room entrance situation. Normally, the kitchen door is probably always open, unless onions are being fried. Then the partner comes swinging through the utility room door: "plautz" - board in front of the head. We had a similar problem and then decided to have the kitchen door open into the hallway. If the fireplace is removed, the door there also needs to be reconsidered. This will probably result in a loss of space in the living room. If the chimney is removed, you could move the door in the bedroom - then you won’t run into the wall anymore - good decision.

Ok, single-story and one-and-a-half-story should be the same if I'm not completely off track. The number of stories has to be calculated (proportion of area with under 2m room height) and as a layman thinking about it, that only depends on the knee wall and roof pitch in the case of a gable roof. I would be interested to know how you determine that you still count as one-and-a-half-story, because I can only determine that very roughly at the moment. Thank you and best regards