ᐅ Floor plan of a single-family home designed as an urban villa

Some people here really think so rigidly that I can only take it as a joke sometimes.
If I leave at 5:00 a.m. and my wife can still sleep until 7:30 a.m., I get up without turning on the bedroom light.
Reasonable people have been doing it like this for hundreds of years when they don’t want to wake their partner...

But the walk-in closet is really unfortunate. It’s more like a dark storage room, where in the end only one row of cabinets fits opposite the door.
You’d only put on a pair of socks in there at most...

I also don’t understand why you waste 8.5 m² (91 sq ft) of floor space on open space above on the upper floor...

MachsSelbst schrieb:
Some people here really think so rigidly that I sometimes can only take it as a joke.
If I leave at 5:00 am and my wife can still sleep until 7:30 am, I get up without turning on the bedroom light.
Reasonable people have been doing this for hundreds of years if they don’t want to wake their partner...

I agree with you there. It’s definitely possible not to wake your partner. In that case, a door wouldn’t be a bad idea, so you can get dressed with the light on in the dressing room.

MachsSelbst schrieb:
I also don’t understand why you waste 8.5 m² (90.9 sq ft) of floor space on an open void in the upper floor...

The usefulness of open voids can be debated a lot. We find it very pleasant.

xDorix schrieb:
We will soon receive the floor plan in large format with all measurements to give final confirmation, and after that, the ground floor will be built.

I believe most of your questions will answer themselves once you start arranging your house consistently on paper, which you really should do as soon as possible! Much of the criticism here comes down to personal taste, individual lifestyle, or budget considerations. If you like the open space, hallway size, building shape, etc., and the budget truly suffices (hopefully you have recognized any doubts and double-checked your quote accordingly? There are a few experts in this forum who are sometimes kind enough to review your scope of work or cost estimates with you—covering excavation/disposal, permits/planning permission, electricity/water, soil analysis, and possible additional costs depending on ground conditions—if you ask them), then no one will be able to convince you to make fundamental changes. BUT: how will you know if you really like the room sizes (as you mentioned in one of your early replies) if you haven’t yet tried furnishing the rooms to scale? Even if the square meter figures match those of show houses, the layout and window positions make a significant difference, especially since your desired exterior symmetry limits flexibility here. So please take your dream house and develop it further in a consistent, to-scale manner. Whether I personally would do without a separate dressing room does not help you in your everyday life. What matters is whether and how your bed/nightstand/wardrobe/dresser/vanity/shoe bench/Rolex display case/reading chair/future guest bed fits in your bedroom plus or minus the dressing area — and this applies to all rooms, including utility room and pantry.

xDorix schrieb:
I agree with you. It would definitely be possible to avoid waking the partner. In that case, the door wouldn’t be a bad idea, since you could get dressed using the light in the dressing room.

Or you plan it properly from the start… Why make it complicated when you could have done it right from the beginning? Close the door from the hallway to the bedroom (which also creates more wall space there, if you want it). Instead, have a door to the dressing room. Design the dressing room width so that the door is nicely centered, allowing you to build your wardrobe on both sides, however you prefer (there are plenty of systems and options for that). I personally find a width of 2.1m (7 feet) very small and cramped for such a spacious house. Meanwhile, you can dance around in the bedroom and the bed just looks lost.
A planner should know this, that’s what they studied for. Here, someone was just “trying”…

It’s no different than with the child bathroom accident. Here too, one could have considered beforehand whether it’s even possible to meaningfully fit sanitary fixtures into such a small room with a window and door.

Thank you, @Noxmortana. Yes, we need to and will now focus on furnishing the individual rooms. Our contract is already signed, and we have reviewed and compared it several times. We have also visited houses recently built by our company. Everything was flawless there.

@nordanney It might still be possible to implement it that way! We will consider it.

MachsSelbst schrieb:
Some people here really think so rigidly that I sometimes can only take it as a joke.
If I leave at 5:00 AM and my wife can sleep until 7:30 AM, I get up without turning on the bedroom light.
That’s how reasonable people have done it for hundreds of years if they don’t want to wake their partner...

That’s just personal. I sleep like a log, someone could even come in with the light on, same with our daughter. But my husband is extremely sensitive; he’s awake immediately if someone tiptoes by in the dark.

Noxmortana schrieb:
BUT: how do you want to know if you really like the room sizes (at least you mentioned this in one of your first replies) if you haven’t tried furnishing the rooms to scale? Even if the square meter numbers match show home rooms, quite a bit changes depending on the layout and window placement

We noticed in the show homes that the furnishings often weren’t realistic. Beds, for example, were often very narrow or short (sometimes they weren’t even real beds but fake setups with lots of fabric decoration on top). Definitely measure again in the show home and furnish your plan accordingly.