Floor plan design for a single-family house approximately 125 sqm, 2 full floors

The bay windows have caught your eye ...

Well, in this case, they are also a real benefit upstairs for the small office and downstairs in the entrance area.

The house stands out from the classic city villas. I’m just afraid that 2 bay windows will blow our budget.

For one bay window - mind you, without adding any floor space, I’m only talking about the additional costs of the bulge itself - you could get ten square meters more. You can never stand out from the mainstream with the mainstream: attempts to dress up a cube (bay window, bay window in crimson red, bay window in gray, corner window, smokey eyes, ...) usually fail miserably due to their lack of originality. With a different roof shape (real shed roof, barrel roof, mansard roof) much more would be possible. A shed roof rising diagonally would probably be unique not only in the building area but in the whole city.

For a bay window - mind you, without any additional floor space, I am only talking about the extra costs of the bulge itself - you can also get ten square meters more.

Wow! That would be new to me. In our days, such a bay window was apparently even cheaper.

You can never stand out from the mainstream with mainstream: attempts to jazz up a cube (bay window, bay window in carmine red, bay window in gray, corner window, smokey eyes, ...) mostly fail miserably due to their lack of originality.

With a different roof shape (true mono-pitched roof, barrel roof, mansard roof) much more would be possible. A mono-pitched roof slanting diagonally would probably be unique not only in the development area but in the whole city.

Your obsession with standing out from other houses is completely foreign to me. I am more in favor of integrating into existing forms, colors, and styles. Isn't that exactly the reason why there are development plans? So that not so many crazy guys with their so-called architect houses spoil the cityscape?

Your obsession with standing out from other houses is completely foreign to me. I am more in favor of blending into existing shapes, colors, and styles. Isn’t that exactly the reason why there are development plans? So that not so many crazy people with their supposed architect houses spoil the cityscape?

My ? – you probably mean the OP. I don’t have this obsession. You can lump me together with Karsten, except when it comes to parking by streetlights. Only if someone wants to stand out at all with their house, I’d rather they do it effectively than end up marching in step with a thousand others after all.

My ?

I thought. You wrote like that. I had not received this request from the OP.

You can never stand out from the mainstream with mainstream: the attempts to spice up a cube (bay window, bay window in crimson red, bay window in gray, corner window, smokey eyes, ...) mostly fail miserably due to their lack of originality.

It was not meant that we have to stand out from the mainstream with our house. We don’t care if the house has already been built 100 times in the same or similar way. We want the layout and the exterior to suit us. So it should please us; whether the house stands next door again does not matter.