JuliaAlex
2021-07-04 16:32:52
- #1
It always sounds so great in theory, but in reality it always looks different. I don’t know anyone with a studio, meaning the 2nd upper floor, who a) willingly goes up and down, and in summer it will be unbearably hot, so you won’t want to spend a minute longer there than necessary. You might as well install an air conditioner right away. Studios are like balconies in single-family houses. Everyone thinks they’re great, spends money on them, but no one uses them because everyone sits in the garden.
My parents have a studio. I had to sleep there 3 weeks ago. It was a total disaster at 35 degrees. It’s used as a storage room. My mother-in-law has a studio. Guests also have to suffer there in summer.
For you that means either planning with split air conditioning or using it as a torture chamber for guests for at least 3 months a year.
I think it really depends on the residents... My sister has a single-family house with a south-facing balcony/roof terrace and uses it very intensively – not everyone looks down your shirt, and you have some privacy. And in the studio you can certainly not expect cool temperatures during a heat wave, but currently we live in an old building apartment without a balcony or terrace – it’s also over 30 degrees there, only there is no ground floor to cool down and nothing to step outside to escape the stuffiness in the evenings. Overall we sleep quite well – except for a few nights – so we don’t worry about it and look forward to the roof terrace.
We live in a semi-detached house with an upper floor and attic. Child 3 sleeps great upstairs. When it’s hot, you have to ventilate early in the morning and then lower the blinds/shutters. Then ventilate again in the evening. Works perfectly without air conditioning and we are in southern Bavaria where it gets pretty hot.
We also enjoy our roof terrace. With a plot under 200 sqm, there won’t be much garden left. Then you look forward to the roof terrace in the evening, where you’re not surrounded by sand toys and Bobby cars. For the same reasons, I totally understand what a “parents’ living room” is supposed to be!
That’s exactly how we imagine it :D