Floor plan self-designed - Realized single-family house

The comment is harsh and at the same time accurate. But should a builder be forced to build a coffee grinder with Smoked Eyes just because the building plot does not allow the size of the American dream? I think it’s good that you incorporated elements you like while at the same time paying tribute to the limited building plot. You were creative and are building your dream. The house looks stately, unlike some of those pseudo-villas. What will the interior design look like? Something like Joanna Gaines.

Hehe, I didn’t really find the comment harsh because it’s true, I like both old Munich coffee houses and American houses, but unlike that construction company I think it’s good and I exactly understand what it’s about (most floor plans of a classic American house simply don’t work for us either). What bothered me more was this “what the farmer doesn’t know, he won’t eat” attitude and since the mass taste in Germany unfortunately does not lean toward American houses, it gets very tiring very fast if you have to justify your taste in every tile/bathroom/furniture store. I’m just not sure yet if I want to subject myself to that again voluntarily in a forum :) The interior will go in the direction of modern country house/classical old building, I like Joanna Gaines but for our project it’s a tad too much farmhouse. If you know “Studio McGee” on Netflix, that would be my dream idea, American but more reduced. Since my husband also wants to live in our house, I have to deviate a little bit from my dream here and there, but that’s part of it, agreeing on what both like.

...since the mass taste in Germany unfortunately does not lean towards the American house style, it quickly becomes very exhausting to have to justify your taste again and again in every tile/bathroom/furniture store. Right now, I'm just not sure if I want to voluntarily put myself through that again in a forum :)

I feel you. If I see another white house with anthracite-colored windows and beige-white-gray interior, I'll fall into a waking coma. :D

you’re triggering me right now to send you into a coma with our house ;)

: totally different, but I like it! Respect for having consistently realized the concept. Chic!

Totally great your houses! I didn’t dare to discuss our Tuscany house with shutters here either... everything was already annoying enough...

Alone all the comments from the kitchen builder... he hasn’t built something like that for decades... but if it has to be... No, I don’t want a concrete kitchen - I want a country house...

I love it when everything fits together and is consistent in the end...

Shutters, pilasters, surrounds, a cornice... I love it

Outdoor areas with lots of lavender preferably and instead of the ugly usual aluminum glass roof a proper tiled one

Every acquaintance told me it will be too dark etc. pp.
What good is that to me, I wanted it like that
I don’t like sitting outside in any warm glass box - I am a shade animal

Totally awesome your houses! I didn’t even dare to discuss our Tuscan house with shutters here … everything was annoying enough as it was …..

Just the whole comments from the kitchen builder … he hasn’t built something like that for decades … but if it has to be …. No, but I don’t want a concrete kitchen – I want a country house …

I love it when in the end everything fits together and is consistent …

Shutters, pilasters, surrounds, a cornice … I love it

Outdoor areas with lots of lavender preferably and instead of the ugly usual aluminum glass roofing a proper tiled one

every acquaintance explained to me that it would be too dark etc. etc.
What good is that to me, I wanted it that way
I don’t like sitting outside in a warm glass box – I’m a shadow animal

Hehe, maybe we should start our own forum called “Houses that the masses find terrible,” surely there are more treasures to be found :)
I also think Tuscan houses with shutters are great (unfortunately my husband hates shutters), in Poing in the model home park the Tuscan house by Haas was actually the only one I would have liked to move into, all the others were the familiar dream of gray, black, anthracite, and beige.

And yes … the kitchen was a struggle … I could have cried every time I turned on the TV and saw a young couple on "Home And Garden TV" in America picking out a kitchen, the selection of cassette fronts was huge, plus the beautiful handles. Here there were usually one or two options or the statement that they hadn’t had that in the program since the 80s.
Are you finished building and can you now start on the outdoor areas? By the way, I also really like lavender! If you’re interested, I recently flipped through a Jeanne’d’Arc Living at the newsstand and saw a nice report about a woman who has been working with lavender for decades and makes a lot of things from it.

Precisely because there are such expensive things on the house like [Biberschwanz], I simply don’t understand the price

As I said, the plot was a bargain, the house size is manageable and lowers costs. All tradesmen are from our town (therefore reasonably priced offers since everyone knows and is related to each other), additional costs for [Biberschwanz] compared to "normal" were, I believe, about 4,000 €, wooden windows from the local window maker were only slightly more expensive than plastic windows from the shell construction or from a general contractor, partial own work, a lot of materials ordered cheaply online ourselves, neighborhood help with paving and masonry work on the outdoor facilities and the chimney, etc.

But as I said, our total costs would also no longer be feasible here in 2021/22.