Single-family house with gable roof, without basement - Feedback desired

The lower staircase in #52 is great: from the upper floor you first call down to the ground floor, "close the shoe drawer, I want to come down." Such a typical super suggestion from a home magazine, which is nonsense in practice. You can do that in a single apartment under a loft staircase, but not in a family house.

After 2 years now he admits that was nonsense and he should have let the light in. *inGedankendenMannerwürg*

You only show men construction plans when there is a stamp on them.

but I bet that a completely different will emerge for me if the house gets a passage to the garage utility room

And I bet that the floor plan can be fixed if you throw the passage door dogma in the trash.

And I bet that the floor plan can be fixed if you throw the through-door dogma in the trash.

I also consider it unnecessary, but here I know that any design will fail without it, even if it were the ultimate proposal

You only show men blueprints once the stamp is on them

Oh Thies, where were you back then when I needed you.

I am glad that I tried it here and that you are so interested and dedicated to the matter. I am sure that we can save the floor plan. My husband is willing to cooperate, even if he is not enthusiastic about all your ideas.

I am glad that I tried it here and that you are so interested and committed to the matter.

Hehe, we are also glad that you are involved!

I am sure that we can save the floor plan.

We are not so happy about that now.

My husband is willing to cooperate, even if he is not enthusiastic about all your ideas

This is not a Stasi interrogation here.

It’s definitely entertaining with you all. And if you grind the kimberlite block long enough, sometimes a diamond comes out.

@Kaho: I am open to the idea of a counterproposal, but the draft proposals go through the same six-month hell as all the others I created for us and then discarded again. There were very, very, very many points I had to consider, some of which were mutually exclusive, until a tangible draft emerged.

My first non-final thoughts on your sketches:
- Floor area ratio – Did you consider that the smaller garage has to be counted completely, not half, due to the overbuild? Did you include the terrace, the driveway, and the entrance area? According to my calculations, the base building volume including the half of the overbuilt garage must not exceed 122m². That is also why I distanced myself from a bay window that was in the preliminary version.
- Which of the walls you drew on the ground and upper floors are load-bearing / bracing? Keep in mind, there are two concrete ceilings and a clear span of >6m is, as far as I know, rather suboptimal.
- Could you please add the m² dimensions or at least the internal dimensions of the rooms?
- Where are the jackets / coats / shoes / bags supposed to be stored? I only see a single 3m closet in the hallway here.
- The windows on the west façade are unfortunately not really sensible. The southwest corner of the house is 2.2m away from the 2m high gabion. West-facing windows in the dining room have, on this plot, the charm of a middle terrace housing or a prison yard (this also applies of course to ’s suggestion to open up the room accordingly). That’s also the reason why I planned the two kitchen windows only as light sources without a view.
- The walkway from the kitchen to the two possible terraces runs completely through the house. In general, I assume we will spend summer time on the shaded west side of the house between the garage and gabion because a south terrace above 25 degrees outside temperature develops the charm of a frying pan. However, my better half is strictly against this. Time will tell.
- Which natural light source does the hallway, the staircase, and the two corridors on the upper floor / attic have?
- I find the 2m wide east-facing window in the living room suboptimal due to noise and visual disturbance from the street / sidewalk.
- Exactly at the windows you placed in the living room, I get an itchy rash because my back of the head is being stared at by a sabretooth tiger from the street, while I can only look into my own living cave. What can I do if I’m a man? I don’t want to retrain myself here either; it’s not like smoking or drinking.
- I don’t find the shower on the ground floor sensible. I don’t know anyone who voluntarily changes floors to do their business or brush their teeth, let alone to shower. For this reason, I only plan bathrooms on floors where there are bedrooms as well. Since the expansion is more likely than unlikely...
- After washing laundry for five people in the laundry room you drew, where will you hang it up?
- I think the idea of the parents’ area, especially the elongated dressing room, is good. I also like the small corridor on the upper floor.
- The open kitchen is both a curse and a blessing. We have it currently as well. The spatial feeling is great because of it. But when cooking, the whole house suffers. Especially steak on the cast-iron pan is a killer here. For this reason, I set up a small backup kitchen on the terrace, which we now use more often than the main kitchen. That’s why I wanted to try a closed (sliding door) one this time. After all, it will take at least 20 more years until we no longer have to make burgers and fries for the kids.

: Whether I have two 1m wide windows or one 2m wide window facing south in the living room is basically irrelevant. The narrow windows have the advantage of elongating the façade and can be more easily replicated on upper floors. In addition, these are always more stable than double windows / sliding windows and better for the statics. That’s why I like to plan with floor-to-ceiling 1m wide windows, which are only made narrower if there is no space available (see staircase). By the way, the first draft posted here contained the 2m window fronts facing south.