Another hipped roof city villa (240 sqm)

Sorry, Alro, that we are cluttering the thread here.

On the contrary! I find "reports" like those from about foreign building and housing styles very exciting.

Sure, we build much higher quality and more solidly here in DE (and therefore more expensively) than, for example, in the USA or Australia. BUT does it always have to be so boring/ugly? I have the feeling the only design highlight for German house builders is the gray windows. The rest is white and straight...
It doesn’t always have to be 10 gables and bay windows, but a little wood paneling here, some stone/bricks there, and 2-3 coordinated wall colors don’t cost the world...

Small fry also makes manure. You have a good budget, something can be done. With 150 sqm, tight on the button, you can't pinch anything off; with 200+ you can easily do without 5 sqm and instead spruce up the facade.

You really wanted a city villa. So get rid of it.

I'm curious what you'll pick out and what can be implemented.

Actually, I only know one really boring settlement.

Tell me, where do you all live? Because I don't really get the impression that one house looks like the other when I drive through the new development areas. Sure, white dominates as the facade color, but better than some other excesses... in our town, and at one of the most central intersections, someone painted their city villa in After-Eight green... I would have definitely preferred white there. But basically, it's a matter of taste. Personally, I like these "city villas" less and less (especially when they're more like "little villas"), but I don't see a homogenized look. Different roof pitches are used, just like roof shapes (if permitted by the development plan). I also see more and more wood on the facades or designs with the windows (e.g., two "connected" windows, either through material or color, I have no idea what that's called in technical jargon). Of course, the building structures are becoming more compact and cubic. But that's due to construction costs and the energy saving regulations. I find the way of building here (and now I'm referring to the region where I come from) much more likable than that of some other countries. I also like to watch sometimes when my wife watches Chip and Joanna redesign, and some things I really like a lot, but neither is that feasible here nor do I honestly want to live in it. And to put it the other way around... when I soon get to see the building plans of our future neighbors... I hope more for a minimalist white cube than for an After-Eight green Tuscan city villa with gothic influences and a Swedish log cabin garage...

It doesn’t always have to be 10 gables and bay windows, but a bit of wood paneling here, some stone/brick there, and 2-3 coordinated wall colors don’t cost the earth...

Exactly that "bit" is the problem. It’s not always a whole ten gables, but often the sum of the quotes from his and her favorite Pinterest dream houses is too much.

I see it exactly like Traumhaus. For example, in our case, the street front is designed much more beautifully and attractively, and not all four exterior walls are painted the same color.

Of course, not all houses in Germany are the same, but probably every second thread here features a gable roof, and the "city villas" all look the same except for the windows, square, with the upper and lower floors being the same size.

There was once a thread here where someone posted a link to an urbanization somewhere in Germany where these said villas were actually lined up side by side and one behind the other.

When I still lived in Germany, the term "city villas" as understood today did not exist, and they are not villas either, at least I understand something different by the term villa.

For example, with us, the upper and lower floors are usually not the same size, the lower floor always bigger, kitchen always by the terrace, etc. That, in my opinion, allows more freedom in interior design.

I often see here in the forum that someone has a large plot, >1000, yet a square or slightly rectangular two-story house is built at one end, which usually results in a square kitchen of about 3.20 x 3.20 meters that is hard to furnish. Every second kitchen in new builds has this shape, which just results from the house being almost square. I always wonder if this is mostly mandated by the development plan.

And regarding Fixer Upper, these houses definitely have character, great kitchens with Calacatta countertops, everything nicely color-coordinated and not just gray in all shades.

Of course not all houses are the same in DE, but certainly every 2nd thread here has a gable roof and the "city villas" all look the same except for the windows, square, upper and lower floors the same size.

So how now? Every 2nd one builds a gable roof? Then all the others city villas? I mean, that is a subjective perception. For a while everyone was criticizing the cubic flat roofs etc.

There was once a thread here where someone posted a link to an urbanization somewhere in DE, where indeed these said villas stood in rows side by side and behind each other.

"There was once..." yes exactly...does not mean every new housing estate looks like that...not every American is a redneck driving a pickup with a shotgun behind the seat.

I often see here in the forum that someone has a large plot, >1000, yet a square or slightly rectangular 2-story house is built at one end resulting in a square kitchen about 3.20 x 3.20m, which is difficult to furnish. Every 2nd kitchen in new builds has this shape, which simply results because the house is almost square. I always wonder if that is mostly specified by the development plan.

Yes, as already written, often the development plan sets restrictions like floor area ratio, plot ratio, eave height, ridge height etc... the rest results from the energy saving ordinance and construction costs.

And regarding Fixer Upper, those houses definitely have character, great kitchens with Calacatta countertops, everything nicely coordinated in color and not just gray in all shades.

Matter of taste, for a holiday lodge I would mostly like that, my style for living in would not be...and once again the price question...how much does Joanna pay per running meter for Calacatta and then look what a high-quality stone costs in a kitchen studio here? Generally speaking...apart from the fact that you would neither get these buildings approved by a structural engineer nor that they would comply with any energy saving ordinance, you can just ask somewhere in Germany what an L-shaped 300sqm bungalow with 8 gables, roof shingles and covered veranda costs.