Variants for furnishing the all-purpose room

I wouldn't firmly plan a play corridor. It looks totally cool on Pinterest - but toys in traffic areas appear on their own, you don't need to actively encourage that if you have enough space. :):) Better to have a coffee machine.

Games in the first years are usually played in the same room where the parents are

This is also the main reason for having the home office and the children's room together on one level. A parent is in the office and the child is in the room as well. But they can quickly get new, different toys from their room. If you ever need absolute quiet for a short time, the partner is right next door and can take the child. That is the idea behind it. Everything is simply closer together. In our region, 60% of kindergarten applications have now been rejected because there is no space... Childcare and working at the same time is a realistic scenario, unless something changes here soon in favor of child-friendliness.

I would distribute the rooms evenly. Upstairs there is space, downstairs it is missing. Even if it might say parents upstairs.

In terms of square meters alone, it doesn't fit that well either. Especially since we definitely are not allowed to build two full floors and there should be two fully equipped bathrooms upstairs. A shower bathroom downstairs, if everyone sleeps upstairs, is in my view complete nonsense! It is, as described in the post of the previous speaker: every floor plan is always a compromise. The question is whether I am willing to accept it or how much it bothers me.

Guys, I would actually be up for discussing parts of the floor plan.
For example, in the upper floor we have the possibility to use a huuuuge hallway as a flexible room.

It would truly make more sense to discuss the entire floor plan, because often shifting something in one place has major effects around the next corner and everything ends up getting rotated ;)

Otherwise, I think a large shared playroom is great, how long it will be used as such is another question. By the time they’re teenagers at the latest, they might not want to be with their little/big sister anymore… so it’s worth considering today whether it can be changed or used well in another way later. Acoustic separation would be the next topic, for example, open to the gallery can get pretty loud.

That is also the main reason for the home office and children's room being on the same level. One parent is in the office and the child is in the room with them. But the child can quickly get new, different toys from their own room. If you ever need absolute quiet for a short time, the partner is right next door and can take the child. That's the idea behind it. Everything is simply closer together. In our region, 60% of kindergarten applications have now been rejected because there is no space... Childcare and working in parallel is a realistic scenario; something should soon change here in favor of child-friendliness.

What? That's crazy. I'm glad to live in the middle of nowhere. But especially there you might be glad to work on a different level. Already a lot if, then...

You don't need two bathrooms on the upper floor. Even if the parents sleep upstairs, especially only temporarily. By the time the kids use a children's bathroom, they are older and either you or the teenager is downstairs. I would redesign the ground floor. The utility room is large, the bedroom cramped, the dressing room a dark succession of closets. With four almost equally sized rooms of 18 sqm each, one of which is downstairs, you are relatively flexible for all the if, then...

Kuhkaff

We are also a Kuhkaff... And still it is so difficult to get a place here. For daycare you pay, for example, 600-700€...