Floor plan draft for a 220m² single-family house

Looks like it, Yvonne. I already had the impression that the hard-earned draft was being disparaged.

We are very satisfied with what we have here.

From a certain budget, a house is no longer simply sold. From a certain sum, you build it yourself.

That's how it is. Anyone who prefers a frog-green wall instead of the lavender-colored one would be ready to buy this house and repaint it. But whoever wants the wall marbled instead of painted and the patio door to be flush with the floor, builds new. Or who thinks you decided exactly the wrong way around and the kitchen has to be in the study.

I can't see here that we focused too much on the outside and too little on the inside. So I don't understand how you come to that conclusion.

Oh, then flip through this thread: there are plenty of "visualizations" of the exterior, but almost only floor plans of the interior (except for a handful of example pictures showing what the window bands should look like).

Oh, then just flip through this thread: from the outside there are plenty of "visualizations," from the inside almost only floor plans (except for a handful of example pictures showing how the window bands are supposed to look).

This is simply because I can better imagine the inside and was already very satisfied with the 3D visualization of the interior except for the beams in the living room. "Too little focused on the inside" would mean that the design in its current state is unpolished inside and almost perfected outside. But I do not see it that way. In any case, the reason cannot be that we do not want a terrace door from the kitchen or that the garage door in question should be the reason, for which there are simply different opinions and tastes.

: Once again on the subject of access from the garage to the house. The idea of possibly actually working without garage access arose here from the discussion:

I'm also not a fan of going through the garage into the house

In combination with the covered corridor between the gate and the front door, it is especially unnecessary / redundant.

That’s simply because I can imagine it better from the inside

This of course explains the imbalance between exterior and interior visualizations. For the participants and readers of the thread, the impression might also arise that the exterior is more important.

What is going on inside the thread starter can only be understood by others to the extent that it is stated here. And so (for example) a misunderstanding can persist for two and a half hundred posts, that a new build house is intended (namely with a free passage from the entrance hall to the living room). Until suddenly a hip roof breaks through.

That of course explains the imbalance between exterior and interior visualizations. For the contributors and readers of the thread, the impression can naturally also arise that the exterior is more important.

Probably.

Besides the differing number of visualizations, it is also quite possible that the feeling inside was simply reached faster; overall it fits now, and outside the discovery phase just took longer. I think that's how it was. For someone else, it may be the other way around.

But be that as it may. From my point of view, the result can be seen, whether with or without garage door; and we are happy about that.

...In any case, the reason that we do not want a patio door from the kitchen cannot be .... : Again on the topic of access from the garage to the house. The idea of possibly actually working without garage access arose here from the discussion:

I invented the patio door in the kitchen. Somehow I misread. For me, it would also be very close since a) a small seating area outside is offered here, b) the recess is suitable, and c) a generous window was drawn there. For me, a nice large kitchen, like the one you are planning, also shows a connection to the theme of fun cooking; for me, direct access to the garden belongs to that. But anyway: everyone is different, then there are only frozen herbs

The garage door: as in your quotes from Kerstin and Ameise, I am not a fan of forced passages between house and garage. In your case, it was close to the kitchen due to the location, as through the pantry. You had space there in the design; at some point, the pantry became a disruptive factor in the plan, from then on it became questionable whether you should dispense with this passage.

Now the plan looks like the cloakroom is there, so a direct passage is very close, also with regard to not having to trudge through the entire hallway just to get to your stuff. Given the house costs, I would always include the 2000 that the door may cost (no idea if I am right about the price), rather give up something more pointless in/around the house. <-> my opinion!

Again as a reminder: the house will be nice anyway, no question. I like clearly structured designs, and I like such houses. In my opinion, however, a wrong path was taken in the middle of the planning, and I can imagine that if you had started again from scratch, an equally good and beautiful, albeit cheaper design would have come out.

Maybe the basement should have been included in the discussion at some point?