Floor plan planning shortly before submitting the building application

And the children do not need to look out onto the street.

Hold your hand under your nose and imagine that you cannot see anything below it. That is disorienting, up to a measurable increase in stress levels.

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

Ready for wallpapering, hardly 3 cm narrower, I would say. No, the advantages are easier relocatability and more flexible positioning. In terms of effort and benefit, it is roughly equivalent. It hardly saves any significant area or time.

I am increasingly coming to the conclusion that the entire window situation needs to be corrected again. If you start changing that at the top of the front once, it stretches from the children's bathroom on the right to the west wall of the children's room at the other end.

No. I would not have made the suggestion if it had to have a domino effect.

1) I find the window situation with child 2 even worse than before now. [...] Some will remember that a few weeks ago we had a planning status where one of the architects suddenly completely revised the window arrangement at the front.

To this day, I have not understood what possessed the planner to make this course correction. Something functional was changed without cause. I would not shed a tear for the newer window arrangement.

However, in the living room I warn against aligning changes to specific current furnishing wishes.

Currently, the parapet height is planned so that all windows from the office through the living room to the kitchen niche have the same parapet height.

Here, too, I see no problem with changing the office window individually or together with the dining area window.

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

... would also be conceivable.

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

A floor drain in the garage would require an oil separator.

Until today, I haven't understood what possessed the planner to make this course change. Something that was working well was changed without reason. I wouldn't shed a tear for the newer window arrangement.

Ok, so just insist that it be implemented exactly as you wrote to me in the PM.

However, in the living room, I warn against aligning changes to specific current furnishing wishes.

I can understand that. However, I believe that such a centered window generally limits me in future furnishing as well. I think it's central that the wall above the right-exterior window up to the sliding door is more or less dead space for furnishings. Because of the sliding door, of course. And then I would keep that wall surface as small as possible, or don't you think that's a good idea?

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

Here I have to correct myself. The children's rooms face southwest.

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

Sorry. Attached again both together. Please just compare the positioning of the right living room window on the premise that the dining area will also be on this side of the room. Please disregard the drawn-in furnishings. I would imagine the dining table to the left of the window in the old floor plan—not centered in the room but a bit higher up.

Draw the dining table in .. and consider the walking path, for example also from the kitchen towards the terrace .. barbecue evenings and similar.

I would place the table with the narrow side more towards the center of the "new" window position. But I also don't know what kind of table you have in mind. That's why I repeat myself .. draw in the darn furniture as you imagine it and especially if there are already existing pieces to be reused. Just use a graphics program, cover the areas and position furniture with the desired dimensions.

That's why I always try to furnish rooms realistically in my floor plan sketches. It does take work.

And then I keep this wall area as small as possible, or don’t you think that’s good?

And then the dining table goes where the couch is drawn, but close to the sliding door? The window on the right-hand wall serves primarily to ensure that the part of the living room facing the stairs/kitchen receives daylight not significantly worse than the part facing the garden. Moving this window also shifts the distribution of daylight between the "front and rear axis" of the living room. Putting all the light dose on the garden side and having more wall for pictures on the stairs side, but no light to see them, would be silly. Seen this way, you’d need a lighting planner – but already for the windows, not separately just for the electric lighting. If the seating and dining positions are actually intended oppositely to how they are drawn, shouldn’t the sliding door and the window toward the office also swap positions? If the architect still draws so many important and substantial positions "non-bindingly" shortly before submission, he probably has to revise it. And that live at the table with you, the ping-pong emailing won’t work.

And then the dining table goes where the couch is drawn, but close to the sliding door?

Yes, something like that. Not right next to it but also not centered between the kitchen door and the sliding door.

The window on the right-hand wall essentially serves to ensure that the part of the living room facing the stairs/kitchen is not significantly worse supplied with daylight than the part facing the garden.

Ok, then we'll leave it as it is. It's not bad either.

If the positions of sitting and eating are actually intended oppositely from how they are drawn, shouldn't the sliding door and the window towards the office swap their positions as well?

I didn't want to have to walk around the couch every time to go outside. In my opinion, you can wonderfully go straight from the kitchen onto the terrace like this.

I see no reason to swap anything there. Or am I missing something?

If the architect still draws so many essential positions "non-binding" shortly before submission, he probably has to go at it again.

In the latest drawings, he had always left the furniture out. I don't know why either. He always said we'd do that later. Now it has been drawn in but not by agreement. Especially since furniture whose dimensions I gave months ago no longer appears at all. I have the feeling that communication is lacking here and there because several people are working on the project.

So I think we will actually lower the parapet height on both the ground floor and the upper floor.

On the upper floor, I would now keep the windows to the sides at a 1m parapet height. This makes sense especially in the bathrooms and the utility room, and in the children's room it doesn't really bother (in the kitchen there are also two different parapet heights within one room).

I would say the top edge of the windowsill at 90cm. Then enlarge the windows accordingly so that the top edge stays the same, right? At least on the ground floor this is necessary so that the top edge visually harmonizes with the sliding door.