Floor plan design experiences - criticism?

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The link is right at the very top.

Thanks, I have now found your blog. I really, really like your house. For a house like that, I would also deviate from symmetry.

Thanks, I've now found your blog. I really, really like your house. For a house like that, I would also deviate from symmetry.

Oh.... thank you

Thank you, I have now found your blog. I really, really like your house. For a house like that, I would also deviate from symmetry.

You mean, you would get used to it?

Single-family house/semi-detached house allowed

So practically only single-family houses for you, if I interpret the "cadastral plan" correctly, since apparently detached houses stand on the neighboring plots on both sides.

I confused east and west in the drawings.

Thirty years after the accession of the "new federal states," I call that a successful reunification. And, cheer up, I’m the same: if the highways below me have a "western standard," I know I have crossed Hessian Siberia and am now in Thuringia

Symmetry or rather outer harmony has a relatively high priority for us.

If you explain the benefit behind this preference, we can adjust our thinking accordingly. Symmetry by itself is initially just a pattern without value.

I still need some time to work on the development plan for the internet.

Most municipalities have already "worked on the development plans for the internet"

to anonymize the development plan

That would be the dumbest possible idea because that shifts the balance between qualified and merely opinion-giving responders to your disadvantage.

The offer was made based on the floor plans including windows and patio doors (and small things like outdoor water taps, etc.).

Those suitable as a basis for the offer will have appeared no earlier than post #180 of this thread (?)

It is an "action house" that we have slightly modified.

Oh dear, you really don’t want to know what nightmares these words gave me.

The house can also be rectangular at no extra cost, but we would like it to be square.

Secondly: see the symmetry aspect; and first: that would render the "action house" basis absurd, if you ask me.

according to which criteria forum users decide which floor plans they give feedback on and in which order.

I can of course only answer for myself, everyone probably handles it differently: to question 1) if the degree of hopelessness of the plans is high, the sympathy for the original poster low, and the degree of resistance to advice again high, then maybe not at all; otherwise it goes on to question 2) first in - first out, otherwise I could hardly "work through" the list of new posts.

But I’m probably on many ignore lists.

Good goddess, that was mostly kidding.

the floor plan is pragmatic and kept simple due to our financial circumstances.

Well, in the worst case we will withdraw from the contract again, that costs about as much money as the value of a double garage, we have to live with that.

The number and size of the windows also depends on whether we decide for shutters (a considerable cost factor) or against.

You don’t want to annoy yourself for the rest of your life over e.g. the sink being in the wrong position.

If there is one thing that is absolutely more certain than the pension (by Norbert Blüm), it is this: that shutters (on a villa-sized 940) do not cost the equivalent of a double garage.

All in all I have to say: I am extremely disappointed. First you appear here as someone who informs herself almost half-dead in countless individual threads, and then this: a villa with the small modification to reinterpret the children’s rooms as “the kids have already left the house” rooms; and with the after many weeks of intensive reading unbelievable ignorance of the absolute basic knowledge that with wastewater the darker the pipe is the more literally you should interpret the term downpipe as vertical – because in this example it looks as if only one of the two floors was mirrored east-west. My scream of pain would have almost woken the whole house when I saw this thread :-(

You mean you would get used to it?

No, I find YPG's house great both spontaneously and in the long term. In my opinion, it is magnificent, interesting, exciting in a positive way. You see the house, want to get to know the owners and (at least I am like this) inquisitorially ask them about their experiences and inner life.

So for you, practically only detached houses, if I interpret the "cadastre plan" correctly, since apparently detached houses stand on the neighboring plots on both sides.

Yes, I should have mentioned that. It will be a detached single-family house. I had once considered (according to the development plan it would be allowed) two semi-detached houses with an opening in the middle, but that gets too expensive.

Thirty years after the accession of the "new federal states," I call that a successful reunification. And, cheer up, I feel the same way: when the motorways beneath me have "Western standards," I know that I have just crossed Hessian Siberia and am now in Thuringia

Now I have created a mnemonic for the cardinal directions: NS and Wo.
Otherwise, I see it exactly like you. I love the motorways in the East and so many still without speed limits.
Off topic: If you don't know it yet, you can look up "Olaf Schubert goldene Leitplanken" on YouTube, really funny, I think.

If you explain the benefit behind this preference, we can adjust our thinking accordingly. Symmetry by itself is initially just a pattern without value.

I associate symmetry in house construction with calm, appealing, classical, harmonious architecture; maybe also "pleasing," which is not necessarily a compliment but suits me.

Most municipalities have already "processed the development plans for the internet"

Once we have the architects' plans and they are registered in the land register, I will upload all plans and documents here anonymously. Linked with an invitation to visit the construction site.

That would be the dumbest conceivable idea because that would shift the distribution between qualified and only opinion-expressing responders to your disadvantage.

Understood, your advice will be taken into account.

Those who qualify as a basis for offers will have at the earliest appeared in post #180 of this thread (?)

I don’t understand that.

Oh dear, you really don’t want to know what nightmares I had after those words.

I know people who like nightmares because they are so exciting. I agree with you in that there is not much left of the action house. Basically, except for the square shape, everything is different, so I shouldn’t call it that anymore. It is nowhere stated in the offer/contract either.

I can only answer for myself of course, everyone handles it differently:
to question 1) if the degree of hopelessness of the plans is high, the sympathy for the OP low, and the level of consulting resistance again high, then possibly not at all; otherwise it goes on to question 2) first in - first out, otherwise I could hardly "work off" the list of new posts.

I am very grateful to you and the other forum members for every hint and comment. I will implement most of it. I hope I may contact you again here with the architects’ plans/development plan because it’s just that I trust you more.
I am also really glad that I have said goodbye to the bathtub with whirl function. I absolutely don’t want it anymore and have already agreed with my husband about it.

Kind goddess, that was mostly kidding.

Not entirely off the mark; initially I did receive, hmm, two very grumpy hints about my misconduct.

If there is one thing that is certainly even more secure than the pension (according to Norbert Blüm), then it is this: that shutters (on a villa substitute size 940) do not cost the equivalent of a double garage.

I don’t know what you mean by that. Functional shutters cost about 25,000 to 30,000 euros. (Decorative shutters are of course cheaper, but not that much.) I thought the comparison roughly fits but have not checked in detail.

Overall, I have to say: I am extremely disappointed.

I really regret that for you.

Initially, you appear here as someone who has almost half-died-informed in countless single threads, and then this: a substitute villa with the small modification to reinterpret children’s rooms as “the children have already left the house” rooms; and with incredible ignorance after many weeks of intense reading of the absolute basic knowledge that darker means more literal with wastewater, interpreting the term “waste pipe” as vertical – because in this example it looks as if only one of the two floors was meant to be mirrored W-E.

I don’t understand the wastewater issue. The architect will probably explain it to me.

My cry of pain would have almost woken the whole house when I saw this thread :-(

Please don’t torture yourself like that, it’s the run-of-the-mill house of a stranger.

I am building a house for the first time, and my husband and I now only have a somewhat fitting floor plan as a basis for the architect discussion. We know, on the ground floor exclusively patio doors, so that we can step from every room into the garden or the wrap-around terrace. On the upper floor, considering shutters, the corresponding number of windows. If no shutters, then more windows and patio doors. This doesn’t make the floor plan design easy for me, but I rely on the professional support of the architect.

A rough idea (red roof, without bay window, exclusively patio doors on the ground floor, the windows upstairs somewhat larger) in the attached photo. Probably boring, but I like it.