Floor plan design single-family house solid wood construction 140 sqm in Lower Saxony

I’m really glad that you find our house suitable after all. When I think of our beginnings... wei - o - wei. What you believed I was capable of... BUT: you haven’t found the sky-blue Stommel house yet. Search, doggy... search. You really have to make an effort to distinguish 7001 from 5014.

When I see the wall construction requested in the thread (log beam - insulation - log beam), I feel quite differently. But to each their own. I don’t build things like that. And I don’t let things like that be built either. And I have to say, Stommel has developed quite a bit from 2002 to 2021 – which I also expected. The new house is really a lot better.

Just out of interest, what is bad about the wall construction?

Just out of curiosity, what is bad about that wall structure?

Maybe you should direct this question explicitly to

When I see the wall structure requested in the thread (log beam - insulation - log beam), I feel quite uneasy.

(?) Otherwise, you might only get my answer: "bad" not necessarily. But it is a wall structure that apparently targets a Greendreaming audience – that is, customers who do not recognize (or do not want to recognize) that solid wood is rather not "eco-bio-sustainable," but quite the opposite; and who have the naive-romantic desire for solid wood visible surfaces for a massive solid wood appearance (which marketing gladly fulfills for them). Blessed are the naive, that has not changed since Luther’s time :-(

I thought it was clear from the context that I directed my question to . Other opinions are of course welcome.
So you mean that the main problem with the construction is less technical in nature and more the deceptive packaging of "solid" wood?

Hello everyone! :)
Unexpected traffic in our thread... :D

A quick update on our current planning status: We have gone back to Badstrasse instead of moving forward with Los - the knee wall issue is breaking our heads, as we can't just easily add 20sqm of floor space to make it fit... Unfortunately, the budget is not very flexible upwards. We both still read a lot here in the forum and are currently working on saying goodbye to the wooden house dream (for now?) - timber framing is just not for us and deceptive combinations of solid logs at the bottom and drywall on top are meh. Unfortunately, our plot is not very forgiving, and since we are construction novices, we didn't know what 4.00m TH actually means in practice. Right now we are in the restart/self-discovery phase and that doesn't seem too bad, a provider we also negotiated with spontaneously increased the discounts :cool:

By the way, we didn't go with solid logs because it's "so eco-cool," but because we like it, we really like the look, and we just find it super cozy. Plus the option to do a lot ourselves, with which we could have gotten a bit more out of our budget compared to, for example, solid stone. Now we are unfortunately leaning more towards solid stone in our minds - but no decision has been made yet...

We would be happy if we have a plan or something to discuss again, to be able to draw on your expertise once more :)

I thought it was clear from the context that I directed my question to @neo-sciliar.

That is true - but you should actually know that questions to rarely present members should be initiated by "calling" their name so that they receive a notification and are more likely to return to the thread where their expertise is currently needed.

So you mean the main problem with the construction is less technical in nature and more the bogus packaging "solid wood"?

Technically, the construction as a sandwich of solid wood - insulation - solid wood is, in my view, no disadvantage in terms of quality. What I consider avoidable is that this variant is ecologically questionable. And this variant is precisely not "solid wood." That is the essential problem of the current wooden house trend, that the consumer is passionately naive and completely clueless about the substantial difference and ecological contrast between solid wood and full wood (at least supposedly).