Architectural design - planning crisis!

Just roughly estimated: The pure new area would be around 95 sqm plus balcony in the design. If we plan very conservatively without a slope, without gigantic window fronts (I think that’s cool but rather over the coast of Australia or over vineyards than in a residential area in the Ruhr area) and without any overhangs... most would probably come to at least €200k for the extension with the currently probably already too low €2,000/sqm. If we now add just the 15m glass railings on the balcony, which are probably around €1,000/m, the window front, which probably makes the whole thing a bit more expensive, then that swallows a lot of money.

In addition, there would be a core renovation of 170 sqm with a new roof etc., and this is not necessarily standard either if you look at two-storey high, large glass elements or the protruding cantilevers around the windows. From the gut feeling the budget is wrong regardless of liking it.

Personally, besides the lateral extension that has already been mentioned here, I would maybe also consider just creating a staircase and possibly expanding the attic with a room using a dormer and using it as a work gallery, for example. Balcony on the upper floor, then possibly on the gable side?

cool ;) Nesthäkchen is a freshly graduated clinical psychologist.......

Uhmm........she is an adult and even a fully qualified psychologist and is being planned as a cute "nestling" that one should "keep" with them? Does Nesthäkchen have her own opinion on this?

I think we should definitely keep her close to us during the project period as well!

Are you arranging your huge house renovation around this? Does she know that? Not that after 3 weeks she runs off with a traveling fire eater.....and then your great 3-room apartment stands full of her dolls, Bravo posters etc. for years? None of my business, but maybe my weird mind is running away with me or I just can't imagine it. Precisely a long-term plan should be the origin of such a project and you yourself wrote that you didn’t want to live alone in 170 sqm in case your husband disappears. If "Nesthäkchen" actually moves out before her retirement, you would have to live alone in 250 or 300 sqm. I would first talk to the people concerned or to myself about how one really wants/could have it or can really imagine living together in the long term. Once that’s clear, I believe the building can be more clearly structured, nicer, and more appropriate to the purpose than the current "ice cream parlor" model. Somehow I have the feeling that the in my opinion so far overloaded and unclear thought processes regarding future, shared or not shared living with Nesthäkchen, these or those parents, have also caused an excessive creative drive on the part of the architect. :D

maybe my quirky mind is just taking a walk right now

... and I can also well imagine that you can explain the reason for the studies to yourself. Hehe... :cool:

... and I can also well imagine that you can explain the reason for the studies to yourself. Hehe... :cool:

Not a very purposeful Beitrago_O.

No very constructive contribution_O.

I addressed ! Without you, we would have at least one less superfluous :cool:

Let's leave the youngest child out of the planning. Build yourselves a nice, largely barrier-free house, maybe with a beautiful conservatory. For visitors or children staying longer temporarily, you can plan a guest wing ([Gästezimmer mit angrenzendem Duschbad]) upstairs or in the basement.