Construction of an approximately 190 sqm city villa in Hessen (Wetteraukreis)

We already have offers. From this, I would conclude that the offers are good and we should accept them?

Binding offers? In the last six months, our craftsmen were almost always 15-20% above the offers. And offers were only made subject to daily material price updates.

Attached are sketches with possible changes. Please excuse the poor image quality. Only the red changes matter; otherwise, the images correspond to the latest floor plans. I like almost all the changes. Only with the narrower terrace door on the south side am I uncertain. Not all windows have to be identical – maybe the advantage of the wider door for the view from inside to outside outweighs the disadvantageous effect of the appearance from the south.

What do you think about the changes?

1. Reducing the size of the office: that is not necessary. The bedroom and child’s room will have the light switches on the wall edges. That is more of an advantage than a disadvantage. I would leave the office as it is. 2. Office windows not improved. In theory, 1 sqm is sufficient for working. More would be exhausting. 3. South facade: or rather windows from the ground floor plan: generally poor furnishing options due to window positions. I would also not necessarily arrange town villa windows symmetrically. They can also tolerate some liveliness. Children's room windows and the office as well as the living room can well handle a push of a whole meter, if not more, into the interior space.

I would not reduce the size of the office. There is no reason for that?! I also don’t like these pseudo corner windows in the views. What exactly is the reason that you want it like this?

I wouldn’t reduce the size of the office. There’s no reason to?!
I also don’t like these pseudo corner windows in the views. What exactly is the reason you want them like that?

I suspect that this narrow spot after the doors looks odd and wanted to restore clear, rectangular floor plans in the rooms. Basically, 9 sqm would also be enough for the office.
We had enlarged the office so that a 1.60 m wide bed or sofa bed could be placed there. But 1.40 m would suffice – that also works with 9 sqm.
I’m still thinking about it. If you don’t find these "corners" problematic, maybe it could stay like that.

In the model home exhibition, there were several houses with corner windows or windows that met at the corner. That created very nice rooms. I like it inside – but I don’t like how it looks outside either.
That doesn’t have to be the case, so the windows have now been moved in the sketch.

2. Office window not improved. In theory, 1 sqm is enough... also for working. More becomes tiring.
3. South facade: or rather windows from the ground floor layout: poor furnishing options due to window positions in general. I would also not necessarily arrange townhouse windows symmetrically. They can also handle some liveliness.
Children's room windows and office as well as living room can well handle a push of a whole meter, if not more, into the interior of the room.

Regarding 2.: I like big windows and lots of light. A small window would be too little for me and visually it also doesn't fit the ground floor.
There is then something between 1.75 m and 2.30 m to choose from. I even find the wider version on the ground floor more beautiful, but on the upper floor the narrower version is more suitable.

Regarding 3.: There is no furniture against the wall on the south side, maybe the TV – and even that rather somewhere else. So I don’t necessarily need a large wall area without windows.
The windows are recessed 1.40 m on the outside, inside measurement 0.8 m. If you push them further, you are already in the middle of the rooms on the upper floor. That makes it much harder again to place furniture there?

The liveliness of the windows would be given by the wider dimension in the middle… :-)