Single-family house - Opinions on our design

Hello, the argument that the bathroom/toilet is too far away could indeed be valid in old age/illness. To accommodate this, I have planned another toilet and a washbasin in the utility room, which will remain "blind" until it is needed. This way, there is the possibility to install another, closer toilet with very little effort. The problem is that it will never be 100% perfect. Somewhere, I have to make compromises.

yes, and I would also leave out the terrace, just imagine if a highway was built there, then no one would want to sit there.

Just stop with this construction of some future fantasies....

No, I won’t. Because although it is exaggerated, it clearly shows the everyday madness when someone just wants to have peace. My goodness, how do you even live? While one person wants peace from his wife and her followers every third evening, the other just wants to quietly get his sleep. Not only children want to seek peace in their sleeping cave, especially adults want a few hours of sleep for themselves, whether sick or healthy, whether morning or evening, whether stressed or not... and then there always has to be someone walking through the bedroom. I’m just tired of writing the obvious offensively. The builder has to use his own brains: a bedroom should no longer be a passage room. Never!!!

Hello, the argument that the bathroom/toilet is too far away could indeed be valid in old age/illness. To accommodate this, I have planned an additional toilet and a washbasin in the utility room, which are "blind" until needed. This way, there is the possibility to install another, closer toilet with very little effort. The problem is that it will never be a 100% perfect fit. Somewhere I have to make compromises.

Oh........ noooooooo!!! Because of migraines or Montezuma's revenge, you don't install a washbasin in the utility room and expect your partner to go there to wash and use the toilet. A bathroom has to be practical for everyday use, and when I see how often colleagues call in sick, illness is no exception.

No, I don’t. Because it is exaggerated, but it clearly shows the everyday madness when someone just wants some peace and quiet. My goodness, how do you even live? While one person wants to have peace from his wife and her followers every third evening, another just wants to quietly get through his sleep session. Not only children want to seek peace in their sleeping den, adults especially want a few hours of sleep for themselves, whether sick or healthy, morning or evening, stressed or not... and then someone always somehow has to walk through the bedroom.

I’m just fed up with offensively writing the obvious. The builder needs to use his own brain: a bedroom should no longer be a passage room. Never!!!

That is completely exaggerated. Who should be walking through there?! Fictional cleaning help who, if they existed, would come once a week and apparently exactly then, when the head of the household could unexpectedly lie in bed for an hour ... oh dear, God gave us language (or WhatsApp, or whatever). Closed door can simply mean closed door - like in a hotel - that can also be arranged. Who actually let the cleaning help in?

On-suite bathrooms simply have the characteristic of being accessible through the bedroom. That is the PURPOSE of an on-suite bathroom and therefore it makes NO SENSE to complain about this characteristic. Besides, I don’t think this house has a problem with the number of toilets. If it really came down to three steps (and it doesn’t), the children’s bathroom would be reachable.

The bedroom is not a passage room. No one (regularly) has business there except the parents. The on-suite bathroom does not make the bedroom a passage room any more than a walk-in closet connected to it would. (Ah, watch out, the fictional housekeeper might also want to put laundry there, abolish the walk-in closet!!!)

I’m okay with constructions as illustrations. But not when they become absurd, as in this case.

So I also find the discussion about the walk-through rooms a bit exaggerated. Attached is an alternative layout. However, I have to say that I have neither considered the rooms below nor the location. I am now more relaxed about the former, and I have not yet gathered any information about the location.

Oh, I am just reading Kinderzimmer Südseite - so I probably have only 1 out of 2 points.