Plant bright and light-filled, oriented towards the sun. Use the terrace as a children’s playground or to quickly have a coffee. It doesn’t matter if the neighbor sees something there. Find a nice spot on the property for a second terrace with privacy.
From the top view of the plan: attach the carport to the house on the right side and then move it down. Porch to the south, house entrance underneath.
Nonsense. You can build a privacy screen about 3m high if desired without blocking your own evening light. That’s simply not a valid argument. Hedge, wall, wooden fence, all work and are equally opaque.
I’ll make a version with the carport on the east side this evening. We’ll see. I think we’re placing ourselves too close to the trees with that.
How do you manage to get clean into the hallway with slippers or socks when the cars are wet or covered in snow?
The car drives wet into the carport, you get out with wet shoes, go to the shoe cabinet, get your slippers, and then go into the house dry. As I said, that’s how we do it now and have never had problems.
Explanation? Why does something need to be salvaged there, where is space lacking and why? Obviously, you don’t just need a place to park cars.
We have a lot of stuff and this time no basement. Also as a party room replacement in bad weather, such a large carport is great. We have used our current carport so often and are so happy about it that we simply want to have it again. It’s like a cold room extension of our house.
I notice that you have slightly different views on what is optimal and what isn’t compared to the standard opinion. That’s okay, just check that your arguments for the deviation don’t end up in the German favourites: "We have never done it like that / we have always done it like that."
Yes, that’s true. I try to avoid that. Of course, many wishes and suggestions here also simply fail because of money (or because of our reclusive nature). Nevertheless, I am grateful for the input.
Your concern that people would line up at the few windows from which neighbors could see the terrace (how many windows are there anyway?) just because you use the terrace is quite unrealistic. On terrace weather days they have better things to do than hang out at the window upstairs, if they are normal people they always have better things to do.
You have prioritized this “privatization” of the terrace so much that you are withholding light from the actual house. You urgently need to check your priorities here. Especially in the months when you are rarely outside, you have planned the biggest light robbery against yourselves. Because the neighbor has two tall windows to the south...? Come on!
Hm. Yes. I don’t know? We do place an extremely high value on that. At the moment, we have 2000m2 completely not overlooked and yet only 8km from the city center. We are spoiled and the budget doesn’t match the equivalent wish.
On the protruding part on the left there are three large windows at top and bottom each. The apartment has neither a terrace nor a garden and the building is very deep (i.e. no windows on the other side of the apartment). I would constantly feel observed.