ᐅ Planning a Bungalow Floor Plan, Approximately 120 m²

The charm of this approach is that you don’t have to allocate much space for corridors in the relatively compact area. In that sense, the concept is logical. However, you have to accept the consequences, such as the “bathrobe recommendation.”
I find the floor plan practical and neat; it can basically be implemented as is.

Altai schrieb:
The charm of the matter [...]
A “bathrobe recommendation” is just something you have to accept

Well, the problem is exactly the lack of charm in this. Even if you congratulate yourself for making use of the square meters without a hallway, the living quality does suffer quite a bit in my opinion. Even in apartments with very limited space, you never see a direct exit from the kitchen / open plan area into the bathroom. There’s a reason for that.

Full agreement, Katja. Whether one wants to succumb to the "charm" is a decision everyone has to make for themselves.
It wouldn’t be my preference either, I must admit. That probably came across the wrong way, and instead of charm, I should have said advantage. It probably sounded more optimistic than intended...

Folks, this is a typical Danish floor plan, built hundreds of thousands of times over there. It features an open-plan living area with the rooms branching off from it and no hallway. Entire populations live this way, also in Sweden and Norway. At our friends’ house over in Lolland, you enter the house, take off your shoes in a small entrance area—a kind of vestibule—from which a small WC branches off, then go through a door and you’re inside. All the rooms lead off this central space, including the stairs to the upper floor. The house is not new; it is at least 100 years old and was already built like this. So, you could say I don’t like it. But criticizing it as impossible or completely wrong is not acceptable.

We ourselves chose to organize our house with a hallway because we prefer it. By the way, that also has disadvantages, mainly the space consumption. Karsten

Altai schrieb:
The appeal here is that with the relatively limited space, you don’t need to plan for much hallway. So the concept is logical. On the other hand, it has consequences like the "bathrobe recommendation," which you just have to accept.

The charm of having little hallway can also be designed differently. As already mentioned, the neighboring house in an L-shape had a sufficient entrance area, a multipurpose room in the L or similar, and a small corridor branching off the dining area leading to the bedrooms. This allowed privacy for someone retreating while others could receive visitors.

In that sense, the floor plan is indeed

Altai schrieb:
practical and tidy,

but not really suitable for everyday living for a family.

Nordlys schrieb:
Well, you can say you don’t like it. But to criticize it as impossible or wrong is not justified.

I like it, as I do not like enclosed hallways, but the houses we know from holidays work well for vacations, often not so much for daily life. So if you combine those aspects (you could also call it planning), you get a great house with little hallway.
Here, however, I do not see the factor of everyday life.

Considering that my parents often had many visitors and that as a child I preferred to withdraw and was somewhat shy, I would probably have become a bedwetter in this house. In the end, I would likely have faced more problems in life, even if this sounds exaggerated and awkward here.

Unfortunately, the original poster is very busy. Too busy to reflect on our responses.

Everyday Life:
Mom is relaxing in the bathtub, Leo comes home with Tom and Jonas after soccer, and they head straight to the kitchen counter to grab a soda. Mom doesn’t really want to leave the bathroom now since she didn’t bring any clothes with her. It’s inconvenient because she still has an appointment later.

In the evening, the parents have guests over—another couple—and they plan to cook together. Leo is now 10 years old and very sensitive to noise. ... he keeps waking up, so the evening is ruined.

A year ago, when he was 9, he needed to go to the bathroom at night while the parents were entertaining a neighbor but didn’t want to leave his room to go to the bathroom, so he peed in a bottle. And why didn’t he dare to go? Because he had done the same just a week earlier. That time, he suddenly stood in the bathroom doorway right after going, and saw his aunt and uncle sitting there. That embarrassed him. After all, he was only wearing boxer shorts and at that age.

By the way, the woman is hosting a Tupperware party the day after tomorrow. (Porcelain is too loud, so plastic is necessary.) If the man of the house still has the stomach flu then, she’ll have to cancel on eight other women. Because the man won’t sneak past bubbly women three times or so with a clenched butt just to use the bathroom, where the women can loudly hear him doing his business.

Thinking about it, this little corner with the bathroom, bedroom, and kid’s room doors opening into the kitchen with the counter would make a great setting for a German feature film. A dramedy, I suppose, is what would come out of it.