Floor-to-ceiling windows - Why floor-to-ceiling windows? Advantages and disadvantages?

2018-07-29 10:55:57

and at the latest with sloping roofs from the 1st floor upwards, small normal windows are no good anyway, more light needs to come in, so floor-to-ceiling - unless you want roof windows like we definitely don’t. If you have children who still play/build a lot on the floor, it is of course also more pleasant to have light directly down below than just above from the window...

2018-07-29 14:54:11

It feels like living rooms are equipped with doors facing all directions outside, even though they will no longer be usable afterwards.

Several potential terrace doors do make sense so that with a different furniture arrangement, a different one can be the "active" terrace door. Why shouldn't anything be placed in front of the currently unused terrace doors in the meantime?

What frightens me much more was the observation that the Flair 113 is the most purchased house in Germany.

That more people drive to work with Golfs than with Lamborghinis is not surprising. It can happen that the bank says, we won't finance a Neuschwanstein for a patient with statutory health insurance. A certain delta between dream and construction is then inevitable. The Flair is the Dacia Logan among houses: it is affordable, and children, weekly groceries, and dog fit in. For that, just without rally stripes.

2018-07-29 15:02:29

The best-selling house from Town & Country. That probably appeals to most of their customers. It’s not mine either. But maybe it also has to do with the fact that this house simply fits into many development plans? At least I could imagine that

No, the fundamentally sold house I’ll make a new post...

This has been repeated here many times, but it remains wrong. Links are, as far as I know, not desired here, but it has already been scientifically investigated and with exactly the same window area, vertical formats appear “clearly brighter” than horizontal formats. Not a little or somewhat, but a clear and significant difference in favor of the vertical, floor-to-ceiling window. The so-called light bands, on the other hand, hardly deserve their name and are the worst solution to make a room appear bright.

Just as a source: Prof. Dominic Haag.

The whole thing is so scientifically well established that practically every builder today follows it, because this method achieves the brightest room effect with minimal effort. This makes it easy to sell apartments simply, better, and at a higher price while keeping the costs for windows low.

Honestly: the space under the sloping roof looks totally gloomy with an 80 or 100 cm floor window if at the gable side 2 meters must be without a window. Have often observed that.
There is also the normal double casement window with 160 or 200 cm width, which illuminates not only the ceiling but also the room in width.

2018-07-29 15:41:49

In the kitchen/dining/living area we have a total of 2 terrace doors each one meter wide and two terrace doors each 2 meters wide distributed on the east, south, and west sides. We want to be able to go outside everywhere, and we do. There is nothing in front of them except an armchair at some distance, but planned. However, I am also a fan of a sofa in front of a panoramic window if there is a good meter of space between. That is the effect, integrating the garden into the house.

Upstairs there are balustrades everywhere.

Previously, in the old house, we had terrace doors everywhere on the upper floor, and there was nothing cozy about it.

2018-07-29 15:56:12

We previously had terrace doors everywhere on the upper floor in the old house, and there was nothing cozy about it

I have never had a garden on the upper floor.

2018-07-29 21:14:13

This has already been repeated here many times, but it is and remains wrong. Links are not desired here as far as I know, but it has already been scientifically studied and with exactly the same window area, a vertical format clearly appears "brighter" than horizontal formats. Not somewhat or a little but a clear and significant difference in favor of the standing, floor-to-ceiling window. The so-called light strips, on the other hand, do not really deserve their name and are the worst solution to make a room appear bright.,

Just as a source: Prof. Dominic Haag.

...

I never understand this part of the discussion... even if you don't know the studies, you just have to stand in the different rooms... with floor-to-ceiling windows, the lighting is noticeably nicer and more pleasant, the other extreme is these light strips, … it directly feels like a basement.

That you shouldn't build floor-to-ceiling windows in a bathroom adjacent to a neighbor's house... most seem to agree on that. But in living rooms, even with blinds at the bottom, almost every room looks nicer, bigger, brighter, …

--> better to have one floor-to-ceiling window too many than too few; this discussion about floor-to-ceiling or not I somehow only know from this forum, I actually don't know anyone around me who wouldn't want as many floor-to-ceiling windows as possible

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