Site planning and floor plan - Your assessment wanted

Hello,
we will start building our solid single-family house next year and have basically already decided on a construction company, which sent us a second offer with corresponding drawings (floor plans) after two consultation appointments. However, nothing is signed yet, as the planning is still ongoing due to financing.

The attached drawing for the layout of the plot I quickly made myself. It should still be to scale.

We would be happy if some opinions come together and we find some things we have not yet considered. Especially regarding the plot layout. Thank you!

Development plan/Restrictions
Size of the plot: about 522 sqm
Slope: no
Floor area ratio: 0.4
Plot ratio: 0.5
Building window, building line and boundary: house must have a 3m distance from the boundaries
Edge development: allowed max. 9m on one boundary, max. 15m total on all boundaries
Number of parking spaces: no information in the development plan
Number of floors: max. 1.5 floors
Roof shape: gable roof 45°
Style direction
Orientation
Maximum heights/limits
Additional requirements

Requirements of the builders
Style, roof shape, building type: typical single-family house with bay window, no special style
Basement, floors: no basement, 1.5 floors (knee wall height 87.5 cm raw dimension)
Number of persons, age: 2 persons, 26 and 25
Room requirements on ground floor and upper floor:
Ground floor -> open kitchen-living-dining area, utility room, guest room (also used as office), guest WC with shower
Upper floor -> bedroom with dressing room, bathroom, 2 children’s rooms
Office: see above, guest room should also be used as office
Guests sleeping per year: at most 2-3 per year, therefore simultaneous use as office
Open or closed architecture
Conservative or modern construction method
Open kitchen, cooking island: yes
Number of dining seats: 4 in everyday life, of course more for parties...
Fireplace: no
Music/stereo wall
Balcony, roof terrace: terrace possibly over southwest corner
Garage, carport: double carport
Kitchen garden, greenhouse
Other wishes/special features/daily routine, also reasons why this or that should or should not be:
- Utility room “in front,” as it is easier and cheaper for water, gas, etc. connections
- Kitchen in southeast (sunrise, breakfast area)
- Living area in southwest (sun, evening sun, terrace, garden area)
- Double carport not on the boundary, but 2m distance as a “footpath” to the front door. We do not want all guests, postmen etc. to have to walk past the carport on the right and then already be in our garden

House design
Who is the planner:
- Planner from a construction company
What do you particularly like? Why? see wishes above
What do you not like? Why?: unfortunately no storage room yet, definitely built without a basement
Price estimate according to architect/planner: approx. 240,000 EUR
Personal price limit for the house, including equipment:
Preferred heating technology: gas, underfloor heating throughout ground and upper floor

If you have to do without, which details/extensions
- can you do without: possibly dressing room? But only if this creates an acceptable storage room and the bedroom does not become too small
- cannot do without: open living area

Why is the design the way it is now? E.g.
Standard design from the planner? new design after second consultation
Which wishes were implemented by the architect?
To the question where our wardrobe would be, the suggestion came to build a wall by the stairs (see ground floor plan)

Quickly:
Would check swapping the utility room and guest room – the guest room would have the southwest sun, the utility room the north. Also, you can quickly put something from the kitchen into the utility room, e.g. bottles.

Upstairs I see the bedroom as nearly unfurnishable, unless someone jumps into bed in the evening. Therefore move the wall (have the door hinge the other way):


Also a window in the dressing room – even if it’s small. Otherwise I find it quite good except for the annoying carport across the front view.

Quickly: I would consider swapping the utility room and the guest room – the guest room would have the southwest sun, the utility room the north. Also, you can quickly put something from the kitchen into the utility room, e.g. bottles.

Upstairs, I see the bedroom as almost un-furnishable, unless someone jumps into bed in the evening. Therefore, move the wall (have the door hinge the other way):


Also, add a window to the dressing room – even if it’s small.
Otherwise, apart from the annoying carport crossing the front view, I find it quite good.

Thanks so much already! We hadn’t questioned the window in the dressing room before, good idea! The utility room should stay in the front since the house is relatively far from the street and otherwise the connections would have to be run around the corner and even longer. Unfortunately, that drives the price up quite quickly for us. The guest room will manage without sun anyway; the room will mainly be used as a "PC/office room."

I don’t quite understand the bedroom part. The gray in your drawing is supposed to be the bed? That would have fitted in the same way before, allowing access around the bed to the rear sleeping area, wouldn’t it?

Unfortunately, we see hardly any alternatives for the carport if we don’t want to give up two cars SIDE by SIDE...

What I haven’t mentioned yet: On the left side (north side) there is an apartment building adjacent, from which four balconies almost look onto our property. That is part of the reason why the garden area is where it is. The carport also serves a bit as privacy screening from the balconies...

Kaho is right. The bedroom in your plan only works with a narrow bed or the bed against the wall.

Draw your desired furnishing with actual dimensions.

I would do without the dressing room.
It doesn't offer much space for cabinets anyway, except for one cabinet; it would become far too cramped with two facing each other. Instead, I would advocate for the solution of installing shelves and clothes rails under the slope. Sliding doors in front of them. That provides twice as much space. You can store a lot of seasonal wardrobe deeper behind rolling containers or lower shelves.

Otherwise, I would of course also have criticized the location of the [Carports], since you block the evening west sun in summer.

I would do without the dressing room. There isn’t much space for cabinets anyway, except for one cabinet; it would be way too tight with two facing each other. Instead, I would advocate for the solution of mounting shelves and clothes rails under the slope.

I don't know, that's an 87 cm knee wall. You'd have to bend down quite a bit, and every day? There's only 2 m at the front. And where would you put the suit and the evening dress? Or do you want to extend the clothes rails right up to the window? Like this??? Then you would walk straight into them from the door and impale yourself. Make a sketch of how you mean it.