Single-family house with basement, solid construction, floor plan evaluation

Paula doesn't like our comments.

I wouldn't either if I were her. The amateur privilege is being allowed to make plans for which a professional deserves a beating. Class beatings for " warns - architects" / -"architects" or drafting clerks yes, but one can also deal more gently with amateur mistakes.

I want to defend Paula a bit. We would have to build according to "our own planning" anyway, after the draft from the GU was useless, but we had already signed the contract. I could post our executed construction plans once, you criticize them, and I give feedback on how we see individual points from life experience in the house....

I think it is good when a client first deals with their wishes and ideas. There are architects who often do not consider the building as an overall concept. This is also very difficult, to simultaneously consider the interior and exterior and the associated detailed planning. Nevertheless, it is a very good basis and better than just moving small fields around on paper! Please continue and only revise!

I think it is good when a client first deals with their wishes and ideas.

Yes, but not in the form of a floor plan. Rather in the form of a requirements specification.

Consider the building as a complete concept. That is also very difficult, to simultaneously pay attention to interior and exterior and the related detailed planning.

That is why one studies long enough and as a layperson, such "botched work" results.

Please continue and only revise!

You forgot a word. The "let" behind "revise". If a design with such an exterior view comes from a layperson, it is better to advise going to an architect.

There are architects who often do not consider the building as a whole concept.

This applies to " warns" architects often, and to "architects" even more often. But that does not mean it would be good to make the planning a matter for amateurs to take charge of.

It is also very difficult to simultaneously pay attention to interior and exterior and the related detailed planning.

I also strongly and urgently advise against wanting to do a one-stage all-in-one planning, in which the stages preliminary draft, draft, and detailed planning are attempted to be done in a single 3D color drawing. Unfortunately, the popular clicky-colorful 3D simulation software invites this (or at least does not admonish to refrain). However, it is a balancing act that professional planners avoid for good reason. A preliminary draft cannot only be scribbled, it should be. At this stage, it is only about visualizing the evidence that the conceptual idea translated into a massing arrangement can be a viable calculation. Anyone who already refines details at this point better resign themselves to enmity. That is precisely the difference between wanting to imitate the working method of a real professional or a real novice.

You forgot a word. The "lassen" after "überarbeiten". If such a draft with such an exterior view comes from a layman, one better advises to go to an architect.

But preferably more gently than the OP here experienced.