Avoid mistakes in the second house: Home construction company or architect?

Barrier-free patio doors thanks to flat thresholds".

Yes, the patio doors in the open space are floor-to-ceiling, but the frame is about 10 cm high. I always have to lift the serving trolley when I go onto the terrace. By the way, it is covered – so much for the topic of water possibly entering. Unfortunately, Google cannot find your post. When is it from?

: Thank you for the experiences! I am curious to see how everyday life with the kids develops. The oldest child is just four, and during this time many things change very quickly in practice. I can definitely confirm the many food supplies as soon as they are in a growth spurt. One is always there ;-) That’s why a second refrigerator was also allowed to move into the hallway.

Refrigerator in the hallway? Put that right on your list for the new house. 2 refrigerators have to go in the kitchen. Oh yes, with the opening to the attic and the children's rooms to create a gallery, we also discussed that during house planning. The architect - a father of 3 children - advised against it. It will be used too little for the cost.

Yes, the terrace doors in the living area are floor-to-ceiling, but the frame stands about 10 cm high. I always have to lift the serving trolley when I go out to the terrace. By the way, it is covered – so much for the topic of water possibly entering. Unfortunately, Google cannot find your post. From when is it?

Then put a lift-and-slide door on your list as well. There are very flat ones that, for example, are installed in nursing homes and ones with a minimal threshold – it looks like a small roof profile. Wheelchairs can roll over that – already tried it and apparently also a serving trolley. The ones with a slightly raised threshold are considerably cheaper. Start by creating a room program tailored to you with your requirements. The square meters and the location of the rooms are the architect’s responsibility. Also, square meters for children’s rooms are not everything. At friends’ houses, the children’s rooms are almost exactly the same size. The effect and possible furnishing are a big difference. One room is a rectangle, the door is positioned so that the wardrobe fits nicely behind it. The other room looks like a Tetris block, and the door sits on the wall. You first run into the wardrobe there, and that already makes the room feel much narrower.

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The post is from September 15, 2023, and is on "Bauen jetzt"; at the latest with the text excerpt it should be found:
Laypersons often lump similar things together – likewise when interpreting "floor-to-ceiling." In the floor plan drawing, the misunderstanding is not obvious, and thus it is not uncommon for a nasty surprise to come late and accordingly expensive avoidable rework.

But even back then, you could scroll back three years to see that I always encourage people to contribute to their own discussions even with the most crooked and imperfect doodles. Also, I have not only just recently said HOW professionals plan: namely more systematically than graphically, and always initially making the transition from conceptualizing to drawing like a kindergarten Picasso. Similar to the "Pictionary" game (dog cat mouse car ...), only starting with the House of Nicholas.

I would gladly make a tutorial about it, but at the moment my readers unfortunately leave me pretty much hanging in sending me their wish list for upcoming posts. Then they will just have to wait longer as a punishment.

Feel free to do that, I would be happy about it, because drawing floor plans is still difficult for me. By "more systematically than graphically": Do you mean, for example, first drawing all the rooms you need on cut-out cards and then rotating and arranging them until everything fits? I usually start drawing with the kitchen/living area and then somehow can’t move forward with logically attaching the remaining rooms.

You don’t draw at all. You write down your requirements like 2nd refrigerator, dimensions of dining table, etc. Especially with 4 children, some things need to be different than with the usual 2 children. From this, an architect draws a floor plan that fits the plot. Then you check, using templates if you want, whether your requirements have been taken into account.