Single-family house with a hip roof, approximately 340 sqm

Since we are building a mix between an American house and an old-style city villa, I really like the style of your house and I can imagine it looking really great with a high-quality exterior facade ([Bieberschwanzziegel]? Dormers also covered instead of sheeted?:)). Since I don’t have children yet, to be honest, I find it hard to envision the room layout for a family of five, but the interior really seems very spacious, yet not quite as practical as you might expect with children from friends and relatives and from what I’ve observed. Your bedroom is on the upper floor too, right? Don’t you miss a dressing room there, more storage space, and the master bathroom directly adjacent? With three children, do you ever manage to spend time in that reading corner, or is it supposed to become a play corridor for the kids? Do you then have a total of three full bathrooms and a guest WC? Is the bedroom on the ground floor only intended for guests? At first glance, I thought you were planning a separate apartment downstairs, because all the rooms are duplicated except for the kitchen. Personally, without a basement, I would turn that third bathroom into a storage room, unless you have a lot of storage space in the garden, by the garage, and in cabinets in the living areas. We lived for many years as a family of four with only one bathroom, which worked great, but without a basement we would have been lost as a family :)
Do you build in or around Munich as your nickname suggests? If, like us, you only plan phases 1-4 with your architect and then want to hire a general contractor for construction execution including work planning, I can give you the tip to make sure to get current prices from construction firms during the planning phase already and add a 10-20% Munich surcharge so you understand upfront what this kind of room layout, a classic construction method with appropriate fittings, and especially earthworks, sewer works, and urban requirements will cost. If the budget is more or less unlimited (which is quite common in Munich), it doesn’t matter, but if you have or want to keep a clear limit, it would be a shame if in the end you can’t choose the right fittings because of the size of the house; in hindsight we would build slightly less large and rather treat ourselves to other things. We did not dare to build with individual contracts considering the effort and the availability of tradespeople; if you are planning this, it would be interesting if you keep reporting on it. We have been chasing six companies for weeks to please send us an offer for sewer works and are glad that everything else is handled by the general contractor :)

Please ignore the drawn-in furniture, they are just placeholders.

Interpreting the interchangeability of furniture as a free pass that they do not even need to be suitable as dimensional doubles is a misunderstanding that can lead to nothing but unpleasant surprises.

Wow! That was fast. First of all, many thanks for the many responses!

Do you want to adopt me?

Sure, the more the merrier! ;)

How often is the 12-person dining table used? That needs insane space.
Bathroom and guest toilet situation on the ground floor also seems quite unmotivated.
I find the wardrobe too small for a household of 5 considering the rest of the house's spaciousness.
Where is north? Maybe add a site plan with garages, etc.

The 10-12 person table has to be, we often have guests. However, it will not be as big as in the drawing.
Can you elaborate on the bathroom / toilet?
I will add the site plan shortly.

Hello,
first of all, I am no expert, so only two notes that I would maybe change or at least want to see drawn once.
1) I would provide another storage room upstairs. For vacuum cleaner, cleaning supplies, etc. In such a big house, I wouldn’t want to carry these things across the house every time. If you hire cleaning help, then as a relief for the housekeeping staff. :p
2) I would maybe want to see the dormers as one large one, at least once drawn. Then as a hipped roof dormer, matching the rest.

The storage room is a good point, we originally wanted to store vacuum cleaner and cleaning supplies in a cabinet in the bathroom.
I also don’t really like the pointed dormers; we will have them drawn as shed dormers or hipped roof dormers.

Please attach site plan.
Where is north?
What is the budget?
Assuming the building land is not in Germany.
I find the ground floor has empty space. The huge bathroom should be the bedroom. The stairs somewhat remind me of an 80s stairwell.
Please draw real furniture everywhere. It partly looks unbalanced.
Why don’t you want the parents’ bath en suite?
Upstairs lacks a storage room.
I wouldn’t want laundry and house technology in one room – unless necessary.

Site plan is coming.
Building is in Poland with a budget of about 200,000 euros.

What do you mean with empty space upstairs? The hallway?

We considered swapping the bathroom and bedroom upstairs.
We wanted to store vacuum cleaner and cleaning supplies in a cabinet in the bathroom upstairs.

House technology is already in the outbuilding, so no problem.

Huge area :) But I don’t see much added value except space for a great dining area.
Rather the opposite: you really bump into each other – it’s not nice. The dining table reminds me of a Corona meeting :p
But aside from the giant mania:
Lots of space, but the utility room is not exactly designed to be inviting.
Why is there a bathroom without a window? Doesn’t have to be, right?

Am I right that the parents’ bedroom is downstairs?
So my question: There is no space for a double bed either downstairs or upstairs!

And then a path from the bedroom to the toilet, either past the stairs or upstairs where the teenagers party, is a no-go – so it fails with me.

I don’t see the work of an architect: some dimensions are normal, some completely distorted. Someone is on board who can’t realistically implement sizes or plans. Just the tiny shower and washbasin elements… the tiny windows in the living room… and what’s the bay window in the dining area for? It’s not even aligned properly.
The 2-meter line is missing.
The sofa gets lost next to the “actually it’s too wide” table and a fireplace behind, between the chairs, what is that for?

Regarding your question: the living room will be too dark!

The furniture in the drawings was just filler by the architect and does not really correspond to our planning.
A 2x4 meter table would really be exaggerated. :D
I will pass on the 2-meter line to the architect; upstairs the slope starts at 1.20 m.

So the bathrooms have windows, only the guest toilet downstairs does not.

The parents’ bedroom is planned for downstairs in the long term. Move-in should happen in 3 years, so the youngest child will still be too small then.
Therefore, we will initially use the bedroom upstairs.
Why is there no space for a double bed, can you enlighten me? :)
Can you explain the toilet thing? Why is passing by the stairs a no-go?

The living room really seems too dark, just like the middle child’s room.
We thought to widen the two terrace doors in the living room from 1.80 m to 2.40 m.
We want to make the living room window on the east side twice as wide and then use fixed glazing.
Regarding the middle child’s room, I don’t know if it would look good to make the window wider.

200 k approximately 1/5 as in Germany o_O

200k are enough for the place? I don't really want to believe that.

If the rule of 10-12% window area relative to the floor area still applies, I consider some rooms to be too dark.