City villa floor plan 160 sqm - Please provide tips!

One way or another, I "lose" 80 cm.

Not if the house moves closer and not if the garage gets bigger. Or I don’t understand you.

The main thing is not to be on the neighbor’s boundary, so shifting the house doesn’t help. But once the plans are ready, we’ll go through all the options.

The fear of the neighbor seems to be turning into a phobia. Did he do something to you? Do you even know him?
I would much rather be upset about having to build closer to the street, where the traffic noise will annoy me all day long.

Again regarding the room height: If I increase it by, for example, half a brick, I have to enlarge the windows too, right? So that the proportions are right.

10 cm +/- more won’t ruin the entire look right away. But with your windows, I would want bigger ones anyway. For that, we’d first need the elevations. Or did I miss them?

Not if the house is moved closer and not if the garage gets bigger. Or I don't understand you.

Place the house next to the garage -> lost 80 cm to the east
Place the garage next to the house -> lost 80 cm to the west
Make the garage bigger -> we have to inquire

The fear of the neighbor seems to slowly be turning into a phobia

No, only the building authority warned about it and infected my husband with it..

But first we would need the views. Or did I miss them?

I would have views here, but from the last plan

Put the house next to the garage -> lost 80 cm in the east

They are not lost at all?! They are widening the 3m boundary to 3.80m and are freely accessible. So instead of 6 rows of strawberry beds, you can plant 8 rows. That is not nothing.

The views are a joke, if you ask me. It soon looks like Hundertwasser, without wanting to offend him. And the small windows remind me of loopholes. This is what a townhouse looks like today – at least what you are probably planning:



...without wanting to award a special beauty prize here.

Maybe the architect still has a creative color-material ace up his sleeve that is not coming across here. But so far it looks very dull and haphazard.

They are not lost, are they?! They are widening the 3m boundary to 3.80m and are freely accessible. So instead of 6 rows of strawberry beds, you can plant 8 rows. That's not nothing.

The elevations are a joke, if you ask me. It almost looks like Hundertwasser, no offense meant. And the small windows remind me of loopholes. This is what a townhouse looks like today – at least what you are probably planning:

Maybe the architect still has a creative color-material highlight up his sleeve that is not coming through here. But so far, it looks very dull and jumbled.

Without meaning to step on your toes, Katja: These examples with pointless huge windows are exactly not what many want. What use are floor-to-ceiling windows to me if I block them with a couch? Just because they look "nice" from the outside (and even that is in the eye of the beholder)?

Where desired, nice big windows: I think that's good. And when I look at the state of our planning, there definitely aren’t floor-to-ceiling windows everywhere. Therefore, I consider the elevations quite acceptable (although the symmetry leaves something to be desired). The driver for the windows is the room sizes or what is supposed to be inside. If anything, the placement can still be optimized.

They are not lost, are they?! They widen the 3m boundary to 3.80m and are freely accessible.

Doesn't the fence also have to be on the building boundary? Or is it allowed to be crossed up to the sidewalk?

The views are a joke, if you ask me.

We are not satisfied with it either. I am thinking about improving it a bit with paint.

This is what a townhouse looks like today - at least the kind you are probably planning:

Oh yes, you hit exactly my taste, I would also like to build like that if we could afford it.

Where desired, beautiful large windows: I like that.

At first, I was totally 'obsessed' and wanted floor-to-ceiling windows everywhere. After furnishing the rooms (and of course also because of the prices), we ultimately decided to have floor-to-ceiling windows only in the children's rooms so they can look out into the garden. And of course large window areas at the terrace.

Therefore, I consider the views quite acceptable (although the symmetry leaves something to be desired).

That won’t stay that way