Single-family house south slope floor plan - Please provide feedback

I don't know if you actually still use a window seat with these window fronts, basically the entire open space is already a window seat :D.

:D ... that also crossed my mind... I have images in my head of a family pressing their noses against the window (standing) and watching the beautiful view from inside in the best weather ;)

We have a similar plot, also a south-facing slope – however, I would never have come up with your floor plan. I would completely discard it, sorry.

For example, we also only wanted one entrance, on the west side – we don’t need a representative entrance on the north. So the entrance door was planned on the west – but not at the back corner of the house like you have it, rather at the front. We can also comfortably get from the carport to the garden and have enough space for the double carport. The requirements were a carport, one entrance, and covered access into the house. So those are met. Saves square meters, walking distance and costs.

Regarding the approach, I would say you should start over. Do you really not want a nice access from the living/dining/kitchen area to your garden? That would bother me the most.

Because it’s a slope, we also ended up with a (freelance) architect.

Where would the entrance be in the one-room apartment? Is it through the floor-to-ceiling window?

It will probably be a front door, I suppose

Hello dear ones,
thank you very much for your feedback, your thoughts, criticism, and suggestions.

I would like to give you more information about how this floor plan came about:
a) Room layout:
During planning, we considered which daily routes we take and tried to optimize the rooms based on that. The garden or the east terrace can be accessed directly from the kitchen via the stairs to the basement.
b) Space / room sizes:
As already mentioned by , we also prefer the principle "less is more." Therefore, we tried to plan the rooms to be large enough but not too large.
c) Granny flat:
This is intended to be rented out as a student room. Access is possible via a lockable balcony door on the west side of the house. The bathroom in the basement (not the guest WC) has a direct connection to the room of the granny flat. The other two bedroom doors would then be locked and blocked from the outside with a wardrobe.
d) Carport:
It is wide enough for 2 cars, although we currently only have 1 car. We mainly hope to get around by bike.
e) Pantry:
This will mainly be used as a storage room (vacuum cleaner, rarely used Tupperware, etc.). For this, the kitchen has become a bit larger and also offers space for food reserves.
f) Rooms on the ground floor:
These are initially to be used as bedrooms for parents and children. In the bedroom with the wardrobe, we do not need much space because we hardly spend time there. As soon as the children grow older, they can move to a larger room in the basement.
g) Guest WC:
Here we have a second toilet when the granny flat is rented with a bathroom. We also want to use this space to clean dirty flower pots, etc.
h) Living-dining area:
We have planned the dining table so that there is 1.30 m of space around the table.
i) Stairs:
In a different design, we had placed them further north (at the current pantry). But then, if you want to go to the basement, you would always have to walk very long distances. Therefore, we placed them more centrally in the floor plan.
j) View / garden access:
It is a south-facing slope in a rural suburban area with a beautiful and unobstructed view towards the neighboring town, fields, and forest. If we put the living space in the basement, we would lose the great view. Since we will probably only spend a lot of time in the garden in good weather, we assume we will benefit more often from the view than from direct garden access.
A barrier-free garden access will be possible via the west side.

I hope I was able to give you a somewhat better explanation of how the floor plan came about :)
Do you happen to know someone who lives similarly and could tell us about their experiences?

So the current builders I personally know are all building with living by the garden, even if the entrance is upstairs. Most grew up with a balcony somehow connected to the garden by stairs. In the past, until at least the late 80s, there was the basement, oil storage, wood storage, laundry room, storage for potatoes and preserves. Someone here in the forum divided the living areas and put a kitchenette upstairs with the view. I don’t remember who that was. might still remember who that was. has living spaces on both levels. However, they are only planning for 2 people. has a completely different concept. You don’t write anything anymore about the topic of barrier-free/accessible, so it's unimportant. Reduce the storage room a bit so that at least the door to the children’s room can be moved by 60 cm. Small rooms are nice and all, but you really have to watch out, you are limiting yourself in the choice of a bed. For the granny flat, give the room a bit of the basement space as well. If you’re brave, plan completely differently. Away from the division of living one level, sleeping one level. Does it really have to be that in the living area you walk into a wardrobe? Or that the washing machine is in the bathroom? You build so big and create tight spots that houses 50 sqm smaller don’t have. Look how windy it is. You don’t have the plot down in the valley. At my parents’ place, the terrace is often not usable. Simply too windy. You don’t even need napkins, they just end up at the neighbor’s, and some almost empty milk cartons get blown over. It feels like they often have a few degrees less in the garden than we do, even though they live at the very top and we live at the very bottom of the hill.