What do you think of the Bien-Zenker Fantastic 162 V4?
Many, many model houses have their reason for existence.
Whether you swap the utility room with the cloakroom or turn the children's bathroom into a guest room or remove entrances, you can decide for yourself. However, many designs are aimed at something, e.g. certain sightlines, openness, or the type “space miracle.” This Bien-Zenker house gains through the staircase area open to the living room. Bien-Zenker just has nice floor plans.
Basically, I can never really warm up to Bien-Zenker designs. They may look good, but there is a lot of modular patchwork – and you never know if a design presents with extras or if the basic shape is really as shown. In the end, that determines the price.
At least this just under 50 sqm large living room can accommodate a grand piano. Whether you ultimately need that... just under 60 sqm for cooking, eating, and living. Many plan with 40/45 sqm and are happy. Too many sqm are used here for the dining area that are missing elsewhere. See also the gallery.
And personally, it would be too far "inside the house" for me and no longer close enough to the entrance.
That could be swapped.
I extended the kitchen lengthwise and supplemented it with built-in cabinets and a small U-shape.
The kitchen doesn’t gain anything from that... quite the opposite... I would rather consider dividing the too generous space, so to think about whether the sqm are properly distributed.
I am really at my wit’s end and want to scrap the entire project.
Why? It is possible when you let a professional plan.
An architect doesn’t study their subject for years without reason.
You say it yourself: just let a graduate handle it.
Why am I here? To find a decent floor plan that covers our wishes and isn’t suicide.
But this is neither a treasure trove nor are there experts here who do house planning free of charge.
Maybe the forum is more for professionals who want to stick to themselves. Probably it would be better to remove me from here.
We are almost exclusively ambitious builders who help each other. We also like to discuss a design from a professional or general contractor with regard to your wishes.
The tone is just brusque.
No, no one was brusque here. In another forum, which is actually filled with many professionals, the tone is an outright mob tone. But there it is also said: if you can’t take that, you’re not cut out for building a house.
Why don’t you have something new created by your architect? You already have a design. They’ll mark with a red pen a lot of things that you don’t like or that are stupid, and the architect then has the task of fixing the flaws. Then you can discuss again here.