Can your house facade be admired somewhere to estimate how little window area you really think you have?
Our property is accessible from the south, so all the terrace windows face the street even though it is more than 15m away...
Because of shutters, our balcony doors are very narrow and thus we also fall out of the current trend... but I am just the type of person who likes to feel cozy... I can't do anything with the open design, not on plots smaller than 1000 sqm...
I also don't always want to sit behind roller shutters... I just don't like it...
Everyone has their different needs
Well, with us it’s pretty certain that it’s not too dark in any room since we have enough windows facing south. So even during shell construction, we think it’s okay. All houses older than 10 years also don’t have more windows.
That’s why we didn’t really think about it enough.
Only now does it become noticeable that the current new builds almost all have really large glass surfaces.
So it was certainly not a heartfelt wish of ours to have so much glass, otherwise we would have come up with the idea too. Still, it’s just confusing now that our house feels so “old-fashioned.” Even the semi-detached house opposite us has a huge floor-to-ceiling corner window with two glass sliding doors on each side.
We probably should worry less and let ourselves be less irritated by others.
But you rarely spend such an insane amount, so the fear of mistakes is of course understandable.