Comparability of costs Architect vs. General Contractor

Surcharge for differently colored front door has to do with quantity discounts:
That is nonsense anyway, because we are mostly talking about PVC doors here, and "anthracite" doors are also white and merely laminated. Charging 2,300 euros for that is clearly a princely paid 300 euros for the lamination and 2,000 euros roughly half/half as a defense surcharge and as sauna club house price for an ordinary funfair beer.

Concrete staircase more expensive than steel stringer staircase:
The "crane" solution is very likely the bullseye here. Shuttering concrete stairs has become exceptionally "out of fashion" alone due to skilled labor shortage, but the concrete staircase as a precast element cannot just be carried in by two movers like the piano from mom in Massachusetts, but may require a separate crane appointment (including road closure and all other fuss). The parts for the steel stringer staircase require only a small vehicle crane. And: there's both a shift in thinking, as well as the metalworker being idle here, since he is not needed for the installation of a concrete staircase.

You can always light it. The fire is - except for the height of summer - always cozy and nice ;). But of course, it is also a cost driver.

As a rule, the architect-designed house becomes more expensive because the client always has new ideas. But the architect can’t help that.

Makes sense and we would have expected to receive such information from the general contractor’s consultant for reasons of transparency and trust – but we didn’t. Instead, it’s simply said: Yes, it just costs more!

Well, where should one start and where should one stop, for laymen to unravel all the details about what causes more effort and why. However, there are apparently also quite laconic architects – just last Sunday I read here about one who brushed off ’s wish for a windbreak by saying that such a thing isn’t built anymore nowadays.

Have we actually already talked about in which area the architect is even being sought?

At home in Bavaria. At home in the world.

So, Erding?