Single-family house with two full floors, shed roof, no basement

...missed that the gallery is probably indispensable...yeah then it gets difficult...but you have to be aware that the children's rooms are arranged exactly around the gallery and that sounds have an easier time there. Especially regarding shifts...when the coffee machine downstairs yodels the cappuccino.

Simply swap the parents' and dressing rooms, then this "changing room" can be eliminated along with the second door to the bathroom.

We weren't so sure about this changing room either, but we also found it kind of strange to get to the bedroom through the dressing room... But by now, I think we see it like you do.

I don’t immediately see any other planning errors. The hallway on the ground floor is huge—which doesn’t have to be bad if you plan an elegant "entrance," but to me it seems too simple and boring, just like the living area. Maybe the housewife has a knack for interior design. The elephant already trumpeted about the staircase—I agree.

We actually don’t need a special reception room. It just kind of happened that way. The wardrobe is supposed to go in the niche next to the toilet. The staircase should be open toward the front door with a glass railing and lighting. Do you have any ideas on how to make it look less plain or a bit more exciting?

...I overlooked that the gallery is probably indispensable... well, then it gets difficult... but you have to be aware that the children's rooms are arranged exactly around the gallery and noises have an easier time there.

Yes, we want the gallery because we think it makes the house a bit more interesting... You are of course right about the noise level, but we accept that.

...Well, that also depends a bit on what kind of requirements you have... if you take away one meter from the house downstairs... then it works too... the children's rooms become a bit smaller... you give up the gallery and you don't have almost 60 sqm living/dining/kitchen but "only" 50 sqm. However, you save 20-25 sqm in the entire house... or am I missing something?

We have also thought about taking away half a meter, but we had planned for the dining table to be under the gallery and otherwise it would be too tight with the staircase?

Thanks in advance...

if you take away one meter from the house below [...] or am I missing something?

Yes, you also take that meter away from the dining table. That definitely costs three seats.

The duplication of dressing room / changing room – although their division of tasks is unclear to me – seems complicated.

Yes, we want the gallery because we think it makes the house a bit more interesting...

Like a thousand others, and just like that, the originality is gone again. That would actually be a prime spot for a painless removal.

I don't see any further planning errors at first glance.

Oh yes, the location on the property. That’s an entrance length like on a pipe-head-shaped lot. I would quickly push the garage about a dozen meters closer to the street. Screw the passage – you don’t unload laundry from the car, and there are hand trucks for water crates.

And suddenly, you can place the house more nicely, with more west-facing terrace, for example.

What doesn’t come across as crazy on the plan like in reality: the huge roof overhang (yes, I have definitely read "BY") doesn’t fit at all with the modern facade on the extra-flat pitched roof. It will look like diva claws. Mind you, not like those from Munich, but like those from Zenzi’s studio in Hintertupfing.

The duplication of dressing room / changing room - although I don't really understand their division of tasks - seems complicated to me.

We thought that we would have a direct passage to the bathroom this way and could already lay out the clothes for the next day. But we also had concerns about the size. Like KAHO already suggested, we will swap the dressing room with the bedroom and remove the changing room.

Like a thousand others, and just like that the originality is gone again. That would actually be a prime spot for a painless removal.

Well, it's of course not something "never seen before," we just like it open...

Oh yes, the location on the property. That's an entrance length like on a pipe-head-shaped plot. I would just push the garage like a dozen meters further towards the street. Screw the passage - you don't unload laundry from the car, and for water crates there are hand trucks.

I had to laugh heartily first. The costs for paving stones admittedly already give us a bit of a stomach ache, but for the wife it's important to get into the house with dry hair. So would you then place the garage at the bottom (street) on the right?

And suddenly, you can position the house more nicely, with more west-facing terrace for example.

What do you mean by that? Turning the house slightly to the left?

Which by the way doesn't come across as crazy on the plan as it does in reality: the huge roof overhang

Thanks for your blunt opinion. We had seen that once at a show home. It is supposed to be clad in the front and have spotlights installed.

The whole house could be moved closer to the street and, as suggested by 11ant, the garage moved forward and separated from the house. More west garden.

You have to like a terrace facing the street. Either half the neighborhood looks onto the terrace or you build it in with a privacy screen and a large part of the garden remains unused.

Apart from that, it is very warm or hot in the south-southwest.

That is why our terrace is oriented north-northwest. At the moment we only have proper sun from 3 p.m. onwards. You also don’t have to be so careful to protect the little ones from the sun.

We have not missed a purely south-facing terrace so far; for that, there will be a small north-facing terrace in the next few years.