ᐅ Single-Family House Floor Plan Design for a Frisian-Style House with a Gable Roof

Hello everyone,
after reading the "Please-Before-Posting" thread, I’m now trying to follow its advice 😉 and kindly ask for your comments, criticism, or suggestions regarding the floor plan sketches for our single-family house.

Development plan / restrictions
Plot size: 1200 m² (12917 sq ft)
Slope: none
Site occupancy index: 0.3
Floor space index: not specified
Building envelope, building line and boundary: 14 x 22 m (46 x 72 ft)
Edge development: no
Number of parking spaces: 1-2
Number of floors: 1.5
Roof type: gable roof with a so-called Frisian gable
Architectural style: Frisian house
Orientation: ridge line NW-SE
Basement: full basement
Ground floor (GF): approx. 96.7 m² (1040 sq ft), upper floor (UF): 91.2 m² (982 sq ft) (roof slopes are not deducted here)

GF: We plan a large living room spanning the entire width of the house with a small bay window, which will also serve as access to the terrace. On the GF there is the kitchen (access to the living room via the hallway is preferred), a study, and a guest WC with shower.
UF: A straight staircase leads up to the UF with 3 bedrooms and the bathroom.
Basement: accessed from the hallway (no separate sketch), includes the utility room, laundry dryer room, and storage.

Perhaps these details help you get a clearer picture and assist us in overcoming any “blind spots” we might have. Many thanks!
Desert-Sand.

The kitchen is quite large in terms of floor area, but the layout becomes very tight and impractical due to the WC recess. (2.20m minus 2 x 60cm (1.97 feet minus 2 x 1.97 feet) leaves only 1m (3.28 feet) of free movement space.)
There is no space for a coat rack or wardrobe.
A width of 3.80m (12.47 feet) for the living-dining area is quite narrow.
I would miss windows in the rear corner of the living area.
The small secondary gables at the front and back don’t have much effect because they are too small.
I cannot see where the front door is supposed to be.
The corner on the upper floor behind the staircase is an expensive space that is difficult to use effectively.
The rooms upstairs seem fine in terms of layout for now, but more details can only be determined once they are fully furnished and precisely dimensioned on paper.
Also, I would miss storage space for everyday items like water crates, toilet paper, vacuum cleaner, and mop. Are you planning to go down to the basement and carry these things up and down every time?
Access to the kitchen only through the living room will probably become annoying over time. We had the same plan in our first house and regretted it. ;-)

As Manu mentioned, the kitchen in this layout is hardly practical to use. The study (is it really used for work there?) is huge compared to the other rooms. I would deduct the necessary space for a bathroom/WC from this area.
The bay window is too small and therefore hardly useful. The exterior view here would be interesting; I believe it doesn’t look very good, to say the least. 🙁 And why are there no windows planned to the right of the bay window? That would also look quite bad from the outside.
I’m also still looking for the main entrance; usually, in traditional gable-fronted houses, it is located centrally at the gable end...

How about moving the garage a few meters forward and creating a (possibly covered) terrace area behind it, which would at least have a west-facing orientation?

I would turn the home office into the kitchen. At least, I would consider designing it as an open kitchen, as this would create a nice, large dining area. If you generally have enough space to eat in the kitchen (which would then be about 20 m² (215 sq ft)), that’s fine—it depends on the number of people and how often you entertain guests. With an open kitchen, the living room would also no longer be so narrow and corridor-like.

I would redesign the home office (currently where the kitchen used to be) and the guest toilet, and take the opportunity to create space for a proper wardrobe.

(If the kitchen absolutely must stay on the left, perhaps the staircase could be moved to the other side, so the doors for the toilet/home office and wardrobe space would fit better).

Oh, that’s quite something! Thanks, we’ll have to take another look at this. :-)