The carport will be made of wood, but the garage behind it is solid and will let in little light, so I haven't planned a window there yet. I still need to take a closer look at the sun position..
I had overlooked that and thought the entire structure was supposed to be built as a carport. Maybe this plan will also become clearer due to construction costs, or do you absolutely need an enclosed, masonry room for it? I don't know if this can be settled by the sun position alone; for me, though, the benefit of a garage would dominate the impact on my residential building.
Yes, the narrowest walkway width there is about 1.2 m next to the stairs over a length of about 3 m. I think that's still bearable. There's no daylight, that's true.
This feeling is individual and yours may be different from mine. I always perceive such plans as tunnels; plus the issue of daylight.
I see it differently, we once had a heating failure in winter
It can always get worse or there is an extreme example for every plan that one finds as a justification. Implementing such a large cost item for a truly rare event would not be my way. This could be done much more cheaply in other ways and without consuming so much money and living space, or restricting the design/furnishing. From this perspective, one would have to prepare so intensively for a whole range of emergencies that could occur with similar frequency.
We have a fireplace and it runs almost all the time in the cold months. But that is part of our heating concept since we live without underfloor heating and heat pump. With underfloor heating, it is not quite so easy because of its inertia, as we ourselves experienced at our last place of residence with underfloor heating.
The glass surfaces in the kitchen and dining area are about 20% of the floor area if I remember correctly. In the living room, I just hit 10%, that's true.
In fact, I do not know these certainly sensible guidelines. For us, however, it was clear that we wanted maximum glass surfaces in the house alongside the equally necessary storage spaces.
Well, I wouldn't have defined such strict room boundaries – living and dining area more or less share the space in front of the stairs. I assume the eventual sliding door will be open most of the time anyway. But I could be wrong.
The boundaries are set by the access from the stairwell. You won't put the living room directly in this access or feel comfortable where someone comes in behind you from the hallway. I read about children and playing; that's temporary and probably goes in the opposite direction, meaning that people sometimes like to have distance (from the parents). At the moment it may fit like this with the evening lounging... Such a sliding door there costs a lot of money and takes up space, so I wanted to know if I really need it. If it is open all the time, that would be a waste of money and space; I personally see this here as an expensive makeshift solution.
They can be small sofas or also single seats, but I would place them now in the plan with accurate measurements to achieve a permanently pleasant living atmosphere and also later when the Lego players have evolved into cavemen. I do not like this plan with the stairs there/hallway access/living room/fireplace at all, but that's just my personal opinion.
We currently have a tight half-turned staircase, hence the wish for the straight staircase. Do you mean by disadvantage the size of the living room or what specifically?
We originally also wanted a straight staircase... for whatever reason. In the end, we took the one that fits the shape of our rooms and it turned out to be a different but particularly beautiful piece. The straight staircase comes with circumstances if you specify it as fixed. I believe that the above less attractive or limited solution in the open room arises because of this. Just because you have a narrow staircase now does not mean it has to stay that way or be circumvented by a certain shape; our staircase is definitely not narrow but also not straight.