Floor plan planning shortly before submitting the building application

Is that only interesting at the Bad / Ankleide interface from your point of view?

Otherwise, I would have suggested it elsewhere as well. The cost difference is not that much; more appealing is the more flexible placement and removal / relocation.

But if you have to go to the basement every time to change watches, jewelry, etc., that’s not so great either.

Watches, daily jewelry, etc. are gladly kept in the furniture safe, which can also be anchored through the cabinet wall in the lightweight wall. The basement safe is for the ball gown jewelry and the stocks.

We now have windows on the 1st floor with a sill height of about 88cm.

That makes a difference of 24 cm compared to 112, about a head height. As I said, tape it off, and imagine the view below away. It’s not only about a rewarding landscape view but also about the feeling of not being "walled in."

And remember that in the [OG] children are sitting or standing at the windows.

Unfortunately, I no longer remember whether the plans are now oriented to the north.. in any case, I could better imagine Child 1 with the wide window on the wide wall side and the narrow window on the narrow wall side.

For Child 2, I also find the flush right window completely inappropriate... a wardrobe will always have to leave the gap to the window, and it still looks strange.

Therefore, my suggestion is "Form follows Function," especially since the 3x2 window fronts are already different due to the wall column between Child 2 and the bathroom, and there is no other reference to the lower floor or similar. I would still work on that.

The children's rooms face south. The room on the left outer wall faces northwest.

I am increasingly coming to the conclusion that the entire window situation needs to be corrected again. If you start changing the front up there once, it stretches from the children's bathroom on the right to the west wall of the child's room at the other end. That also led me to think about the windows in the living room. It doesn't bother you on the visualizations, but if you look at it with a tape measure in mind, you actually perceive it differently. If I change something there now again, it has to be right; then I have to give the architect very specific instructions about which window goes where / what exactly is changed. I would be reluctant to send it back and forth 3 more times until it fits.

I fully agree with "Form follows Function." You are right!

EDIT:
My wife just came in and said she finds the windows here in our place too low. And the children don't need to look onto the street. She now wants the windows to remain at the parapet height where they are. But I would move them anyway to better manage the lintel situation. And in the office downstairs, I definitely want to be able to look out properly.


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Does the lightweight wall have any other advantages besides being somewhat narrower than the drawn wall?

I have taken up the tip about detailed furniture planning again and have been working on it for over an hour now. Two things came up in the process.

1) The situation with the windows in Child 2's room seems even worse to me now than before. Form follows function is something we absolutely have to implement. The desk placement is a disaster, the wardrobe that cannot be placed all the way against the bottom wall is bad. All of this needs to be thrown overboard.

Some of you might remember that a few weeks ago we had a planning status where one of the architects suddenly completely revised the window arrangement on the front side. This somewhat disturbed the exterior appearance, so we reverted it. But isn't that exactly the solution we need here? I’m attaching the whole thing again!

For now, I only care about the arrangement, not the sill height and measurements.

Better to adopt this proposal or even come up with something completely new? I would just need to make concrete suggestions on how I want to solve it; otherwise, I’ll be dithering over it for weeks.

2) Since the dining table has to move back to the right, where it was before, I noticed that the window on the far right should, in my view, be placed higher. Otherwise, you limit the possibilities of furniture placement below the window. This was also drawn cleanly back then and somehow suddenly changed. You don’t always notice such things immediately, especially not when furniture suddenly disappears or gets swapped. An incredibly valuable tip that I picked up on today! I attached again how I roughly imagine the window. The wall area between the right window and the terrace sliding door is dead space anyway for sensible furnishing. Therefore, I prefer to keep it as small as possible. A wall lamp can go there, and that’s it.

I also saw in the contract documents that the Velux daylight spots that I wanted for the first floor hallway were forgotten. Also, I noticed a 204-liter hot water storage tank, which is far too small.

I am still wondering whether it makes sense that apparently there is no drainage in the garage.

Just think of all that still comes up when the building consultant reviews the contract documents thoroughly. I’m sure this will keep me busy intensively for some weeks.

Regarding the parapet height, I also want to get closer to the ground floor. Currently, the parapet heights are planned so that all windows from the office through the living room to the kitchen niche have the same parapet height. It would be good if this remained consistent. Whether sitting in the kitchen, in the office, or at the dining table, you want to look outside. The parapet height of 1.12m might really be too much. Should I lower everything to a uniform measure? This also affects the window behind the couch (but that doesn't really bother either).

I don't find your attached floor plans helpful. It is especially tedious to then look for new variants, which are also unscaled so far. It would be easier if you placed comparisons side by side.

I also don't understand your problem with the window in the living room, especially since the old floor plan also shows the sofa on the right side of the plan. Just use the floor plan each time and upload it again in the post. You have it right in front of you anyway, and image links are officially no longer possible here, and each image has to be uploaded again anyway.

Parapet height... where no kitchen planning etc. is involved, there is nothing against the standard of 86/87.5 cm. It is also much more practical in the office.