Single-family house - Opinions on our design

Hope you now understand why I am slowly starting to despair. Unfortunately, he will no longer become an architect but a draftsman.

Hello MBS2201,

the emerging despair is understandable.

Nevertheless: What exactly prevents you from doing a much more thorough reset of the floor plan than has been done so far?

So far, only cosmetic work has been done on a bad (at least from the point of view of some forum members) floor plan. But why not a truly healing operation?

Some of what prevents such a "healing" is being presented by you/all as fixed. Question: Why? If you don't break free here, little can be achieved even with the help of the forum.

See also Kaho674 in #69.

Hope you now understand why I am slowly starting to despair. Unfortunately, it will no longer be an architect but a draftsman.

Honestly, no.

Certainly, it hurts when you pay for a service unnecessarily and receive no value in return. And I can understand wanting to try it alone then. But you have been fiddling around with the house for some time now, it won’t be a cheap build with a larger living area and balcony either, so you should draw a line from your experience and let a professional handle it again. You probably also had bad experiences with women before you gave your wife a chance.

A reset of the whole thing is planned. However, as already mentioned, it will be a draftsman. Since I have received the plan from 1 architect and 2 other draftsmen as rated good, but a completely different opinion comes from you, I would like to ask for your opinions on a reset so that I can give the draftsman clear information.

Please share your idea/vision on how/what should be changed if you find the plan so off.

I already did, see:

A central staircase might add flair to the ground floor, but at the same time it is somewhat of a mortgage on the upper floor. In the combination of the south room dogma, corner window dogma, and children's balcony dogma, this may possibly create a self-imposed planning prison. I therefore recommend playing through further variants where one of these sacred cows is "sacrificed" each time.

Kids don’t really care about balconies anyway, as teenagers maybe for smoking weed, but that doesn’t require the large floor area in the layout. So get rid of it and then, as said, tackle the upper floor first.

The magic triangle reads: Point A = mind cinema with the designer house you would like to build - Point B = needs of the building family - Point C = real plot of land.

Hello, I never said that it cannot be changed. [...] Unfortunately, we have the big problem that the base slab has already been created. Possibly a small advantage that it was made rectangular.

Ouch (and: when did you mention the fixed base slab?). From my point of view that doesn't fit together at all, and how it can be reconciled with

Another version of the ground floor with an extended bay window so that the kitchen counter still fits in.

is beyond me.

It will unfortunately no longer be an architect but a draftsman.

The chief physician has Parkinson’s, that’s bad. But can it still save the patient if the trainee nurse wields the scalpel???

So: we now have a base slab (according to the draftsman’s design?), which also has connections for supply lines and drains, so not just its outline as fixed points. A draftsman can be a very capable and experienced assistant, but in this situation I urgently see the need for a top professional.

My prayer book for this I gladly repeat once again: the first basis is the base slab with all connections. On that, he develops (because it is the more demanding floor) the upper floor as the second basis, and only then the ground floor. The central staircase, the south room dogma, the corner window dogma and the children's balcony dogma are priorities number 30, 50, 80 and 99. If you like, add "sculptural aspects of the staircase" at position 81.

You can happily report on that here – from this forum I would see only kbt09 able to manage this task. But it is definitely too demanding to do for free.

A reset of the whole is planned. However, as already mentioned, it will be a draftsman. Since I have received a good rating of the plan from 1 architect and 2 other draftsmen, but you have a completely different opinion, I would like to ask for your opinions on a reset so that I can give the draftsman clear information.

They have rated it as good that the staircase upstairs is different from the one downstairs and... on the upper side in the ground floor there are 3 meters available, while in the upper floor a generous 4 meters are available? Well, good grief.

As a photographer, I have also often been shown photos of wedding couples taken by an amateur with pride. Do you think I criticize the non-existent pictorial design? Or the unsuccessful exposure?

No one said the approach is stupid, but it is simply not well thought out... if I ignore the serious mistakes... however, there are different opinions here too.