pagoni2020
2020-07-15 18:01:57
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Bang.
I don’t think that wants to upset you, but certainly wants to warn you in time, and I think that’s right!
I don’t want to judge the structural engineering background of this expansion, but after reading the original thread, I have serious doubts about the sensibility of this project.
The question came up there as to why your parents don’t simply move into the upper floor, since it could be nicely designed for them in an appropriate way. Forcibly building something now because the parents apparently do not want to change their existing habits doesn’t seem like a good way to me.
You are submitting yourself and the possibilities for the family possibly to the understandable inflexibility or lack of willingness to change on the part of the parents (but I really don’t want to offend anyone).
Everything should stay as it is, preferably no change, but the positive things should come additionally (children, grandchildren in the house, etc.), maybe I am mistaken... then sorry.
I had an almost identical situation many years ago and ultimately decided against it... fortunately.
If someone lives in the master apartment here, then it is you with your large or even growing family, with working members, adolescents, increasing space requirements, and constant changes and new necessities in life.
Your parents may well have already finished their working lives, but their family planning is done; therefore, everything on their part will rather decrease than increase. Consequently, the house will be upside down.
My parents sold their house a few years later, we agreed on a kind of generational contract and lived wonderfully in a newly built house for almost 30 years. We in the ground floor with partial basement and my parents in a top apartment with a roof terrace in the attic, exactly tailored to their needs and much nicer than the old house.
This new house could later also be wonderfully resold as divided condominiums, then when your life changes over time.
If you write as an exclusion criterion that building land in Ruch is too expensive for a new building for you alone, why don’t you sell the parents’ house at a surely great current price and build exactly the house you want new, tailored optimally for both sides. Then the parents can live on the ground floor, attic, or separate annex, all of which can be done in size and demand.
But... older people often don’t want that because it’s too much change (which will come anyway).
I don’t want to pay the price (reduced living quality, unnecessary costs, etc.) of this lack of willingness with my “up-and-coming” family and submit to the, although understandable, but not really long-term thought-out wishes of the parent generation.
A plus/minus list for a sale/new build would quickly show you what the appropriate path for you is, because despite all the love for your parents, you are primarily responsible for the well-being of YOUR family and only at some point long afterward for the desire for minimal change on the part of your parents.
I hope you can take it as I intend, merely as a thought-provoking impulse to possibly find the courage to think completely anew!
I don’t think that wants to upset you, but certainly wants to warn you in time, and I think that’s right!
I don’t want to judge the structural engineering background of this expansion, but after reading the original thread, I have serious doubts about the sensibility of this project.
The question came up there as to why your parents don’t simply move into the upper floor, since it could be nicely designed for them in an appropriate way. Forcibly building something now because the parents apparently do not want to change their existing habits doesn’t seem like a good way to me.
You are submitting yourself and the possibilities for the family possibly to the understandable inflexibility or lack of willingness to change on the part of the parents (but I really don’t want to offend anyone).
Everything should stay as it is, preferably no change, but the positive things should come additionally (children, grandchildren in the house, etc.), maybe I am mistaken... then sorry.
I had an almost identical situation many years ago and ultimately decided against it... fortunately.
If someone lives in the master apartment here, then it is you with your large or even growing family, with working members, adolescents, increasing space requirements, and constant changes and new necessities in life.
Your parents may well have already finished their working lives, but their family planning is done; therefore, everything on their part will rather decrease than increase. Consequently, the house will be upside down.
My parents sold their house a few years later, we agreed on a kind of generational contract and lived wonderfully in a newly built house for almost 30 years. We in the ground floor with partial basement and my parents in a top apartment with a roof terrace in the attic, exactly tailored to their needs and much nicer than the old house.
This new house could later also be wonderfully resold as divided condominiums, then when your life changes over time.
If you write as an exclusion criterion that building land in Ruch is too expensive for a new building for you alone, why don’t you sell the parents’ house at a surely great current price and build exactly the house you want new, tailored optimally for both sides. Then the parents can live on the ground floor, attic, or separate annex, all of which can be done in size and demand.
But... older people often don’t want that because it’s too much change (which will come anyway).
I don’t want to pay the price (reduced living quality, unnecessary costs, etc.) of this lack of willingness with my “up-and-coming” family and submit to the, although understandable, but not really long-term thought-out wishes of the parent generation.
A plus/minus list for a sale/new build would quickly show you what the appropriate path for you is, because despite all the love for your parents, you are primarily responsible for the well-being of YOUR family and only at some point long afterward for the desire for minimal change on the part of your parents.
I hope you can take it as I intend, merely as a thought-provoking impulse to possibly find the courage to think completely anew!