Your thoughts on our floor plan. Thank you for suggestions

I just found the "questionnaire" during the floor plan planning and will fill it out tomorrow. If this topic has ended up in the wrong thread, it can be moved gladly. Thank you

Without the corner windows, the house would appear as an even thicker, heavier block. I'll also include the exterior views.

Kind Gisela, not only Horst Schlämmer needs a Dornkaat for this house. It looks like an English or Dutch warehouse style from the 1980s.

There is a (extra large) bathtub on the 1st floor.

For a family of five? – the joke quickly fizzles out, you’ll only do that three times in ten years. And in the jacuzzi of the wellness hotel, that is cheaper than the surcharge for the oversized tub.

We also considered a storage room. But since we will have a garage where, in all likelihood, no car will ever be parked, we counted that as a storage room.

That would give me pause and doesn’t seem to be the only indication that the resident family won’t recognize themselves in the finished house.

Overall: catalog house or from an architect? I hardly believe the latter, more likely a developer.

All in all, I feel the same way.

I also usually find the recessed door cool, if it fits harmoniously into the overall package.

This kind of profile contracts the house by two meters more in width, here it comes across as exaggerated.

-The wardrobe could better be described as a family wardrobe for shoes, jackets, and bags. Next to it, there is still an open wardrobe for guests.
-The corner in the living room is rather meant as a storage space for all the toys / play kitchen etc., since our children are still small and will play a lot on the ground floor anyway.
-We will reconsider the seating distance to the TV. 3.60 is really not much.

Overall, it should also be said that the straight staircase is extremely dominant and unsuitable for your floor plan. It creates nothing but corridor-like rooms on the 1st floor, dark corners on the ground floor, and space problems in the entrance area—why would anyone put themselves through that? That is completely beyond me.

If you only need a storage place for toys, I can recommend a cupboard.
Otherwise, the living room will probably rather become the children’s trash corner if the play area is not intended to be there. You can still try to sugarcoat the corner or leave your kids there in the dark—but that doesn’t change the facts: in my opinion, the space is missing for the TV wall and kids prefer to play in the sunshine.

There is an (extra large) bathtub on the 1st floor. But maybe it’s possibly too dark there at the end of the bathroom. The window is precisely on the opposite side.

Oh, that is supposed to be a bathtub—I thought it was a shower. Honestly, the bathroom is actually ridiculous. Sure, it’s just the kids’ bathroom and compromises are made in such cases. But here, only the staircase is to blame for this awkwardness. Get rid of it!

Do you think the entrance area is too small? Well, we have already thought about that... it goes a little further to the left towards the wardrobe. The narrow corridor next to the stairs is also just so-so, but otherwise, the kitchen is a bit _too_ open and probably difficult in terms of statics?!?
It would be nice if there was a reasonable solution somehow to improve the corridor passage next to the stairs. Any suggestions?

Yes, the entrance area is simply ugly and small. You squeeze yourself into the door and have this annoying staircase in front of you that ruins the whole floor plan, then this pointless dark corridor (what is that supposed to be?—a labyrinth?) or the dark, creepy wardrobe.
You actually want to leave the house right away there—just get out of there as quickly as possible.

We have also thought about a storage room. But since we will have a garage where in all likelihood no car will ever be parked, we counted that as a storage room. Beverage fridge and shelves for supplies etc.

In the garage? Yes, it makes perfect sense to outsource the groceries into the garage instead of planning a proper floor plan with a pantry right away. That’s why so many do it.

No—seriously: the place will cost you a lot of money. Such compromises are nonsensical and totally unnecessary! Do you want a corridor-like bathroom or rather a decent size with light and space? Storage room / pantry on the ground floor—is possible without having to run all the way to the garage. Play area for the children? Of course—that also works in the sun. More generous entrance area with wardrobe?—that should be doable. All of this is possible, I am pretty sure. The straight staircase probably has to be sacrificed for this, but it is just in the way anyway. But please stop sugarcoating obvious weaknesses. Here you are fooling no one but yourself.

I think the ground floor will be too dark. The garage is on the sunny side and doesn't allow any windows. And then I also read that it's not needed but is used as a storage room. That can be solved better.
Consider where the sun sets in autumn/winter.

Also, I have the impression that somehow empty space could be eliminated in the middle.
At first, I didn't think the staircase was that bad, since the narrow room to the north can also be used (I would make a small office corner there), but the longer you look, the more you realize that it is what unnecessarily stretches the space quite a bit.
Nowadays, a basement should be more integrated into the planning. Will it be just a utility basement? Doesn't get an outside stair? Then think about what should go in the basement and what needs to go elsewhere (bicycles? mower? etc.)
Instead of a garage, I would make an open bar as a carport, which starts quite far forward...
But without the property, this is just a rough guess...

Regarding accessibility: it doesn't just apply to bathrooms, but also to hallways: in my opinion, the house is not suitable for that. Because then, for example, the hallway would have to be wider and the entrance area would need more space so that the wheelchair can actually get into the house [emoji848]

This type of profile contracts the house by more than two meters in width, here it appears exaggerated.

Spelling correction :-(
It should of course be "contracts."

Overall, it should be said that the straight staircase is extremely dominant and unsuitable for your floor plan.

Straight_staircases "require" somewhat wider houses (with windows on both eaves sides).

Such compromises are ridiculous and not necessary at all!

The extent of the inconsistencies is as high as if one had to consider a rocky slope or similar severe restrictions. It seems to me that some wishes have been incorporated here that were originally meant for a detached house in the heart of the area and are now being pressed into a semi-detached house.

Hence probably also the association with a developer house: polished up with a few trendy gimmicks, one should not be able to taste that it pinches at several points.