One more tip. Take a terrace door up to the unfinished attic. Install one or two Velux windows in the roof right away. That brings light into the hallway, and a door like that doesn’t warp. If you expand later, it will be gone anyway, then it can just go into the greenhouse or something. There’s always some use for it.
Yes, the door will definitely be installed. Otherwise, too much heat escapes ...
Velux is planned in the hallway, let’s see if a second one makes sense.
[...] and when your own wishes (rotated ridge) are suddenly dropped again, just so that nothing else has to be changed, I see no possibility and no necessity to keep discussing.
Admittedly, postponing the wish for a rotated ridge might seem a bit strange to outsiders. But I have to say that as more days pass, my concerns shrink. I think what bothered me at first was that I wasn’t used to it. But now changing the floor plan just to satisfy my habit, which is diminishing day by day, doesn’t seem very sensible to me. Especially since the view from the children’s room to the south onto the orchard and forest, instead of onto the neighbor’s house, also has something to it.
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But there is a difference whether you build for a future family with small children or for two people approaching retirement.
To the original poster: It’s no use to me how your house turns out in the end. I also don’t care whether a children’s room is accessible from the living room and whether your child handles the “noise” well or not. For you it has to work in the end, and when your own wishes (rotated ridge) are suddenly dropped again just so nothing else has to be changed, I see no possibility and no necessity to keep discussing.
I would never plan a children’s room next to the living room. When the child finally sleeps in the evening, you don’t want to have to be quiet in the living room all the time so they don’t wake up. When you have visitors and want to sit quietly but have to constantly ask for silence so the baby doesn’t get woken, that’s very unpleasant too.
I have the feeling that we are partly talking past each other. Maybe it’s because not everyone has read the entire thread or I haven’t been clear enough. Anyway. It always sounds like the small room on the ground floor is supposed to be used permanently as a children’s room with you. But that is not planned! It’s only planned as a children’s room during infancy, before and after it’s just a normal office again. If there are visitors in the evening, they just go into the bedroom, maybe I’m actually naive, but somehow I don’t see the problem.
It’s similar with the utility room and the door. Almost everyone objects, but to me that just belongs. Maybe we in the north just think a little differently?