I will definitely do that. Thanks for summarizing. The latter should probably be the cheapest.I would ask the general contractor what is cheaper - lower knee wall with dormers - higher knee wall without dormers - larger floor area but no bay window, gable roof without dormers (running meters of exterior wall are the same, simple shape, simple roof, no transitions, no corners)
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- except for bathroom and utility room, all rooms swapped
- staircase rotated - no longer extends into the utility room but into the office
this is how I imagine it and could live with it
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- living room could be separated if needed
- kitchen is the first room and thus the living room is no longer like a train station.
upstairs
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Warm or cold (or catastrophe)?
That is basically correct - but it does not mean that the house becomes more expensive because of the higher knee wall. As I said: from sums ... - more knee wall, less roof pitch / bay window gone, but "distributed" over the house depth, these are elements correlated with each other that are more "reshuffled" than becoming more expensive or cheaper in total.Because the way I understood it, the wall with a higher knee wall has to withstand more because the leverage force from the roof increases.