Hanging house in the Southwest Palatinate - Our House Construction 2.0

I think you need to let go of the fixed image in your mind a little. A compromise can lead to you ending up with a half-baked country house that looks like the 80s villas in southern Germany. I definitely wouldn't use muntins in a bungalow with that shape and those window shapes. It wouldn't be a good stylistic contrast. Coziness in a modern country house style can also be completely achieved inside through furniture, decoration, and textiles. Although, if I imagine the glass door in the middle as a normal window, then you can more easily achieve a country house look with a division of the two windows on the left and right than with the glass door.

Under no circumstances [Sprossen]! That would not suit the house at all!

In the contract we have plastic windows, white on the inside and anthracite on the outside. Yesterday during the inspection, our builder said that the anthracite exterior color is subject to an extra charge, and if we wanted to have it white on the outside as well, it would be cheaper / we would receive a credit.

If you want a country house style, I don't really find anthracite suitable and would choose white.

I don’t know if it would still look that nice with muntins? The same goes for our 3-meter fixed-glazed kitchen window front. Would something like that also look good with muntins?

I can't really imagine panoramic windows with muntins; personally, that would bother me.

normal sliding door VS lift-and-slide system.

If it fits the budget, I would always choose a lift-and-slide door.

The builder advises against the lift-and-slide system because he says the extra cost is hefty for "hardly any more functionality"; he also says that due to the missing threshold people tend to step onto the system, which allows stones/sand to get in and can make the system stiff or, in extreme cases, damaged.

We had a lift-and-slide door in the first house and are getting one again now; we haven’t had any problems in over 10 years. And the kids ran in and out from the sandbox, didn’t cause anything at all. Our neighbors even threw out their normal sliding door and replaced it with a lift-and-slide because they found it much more comfortable with us.

We are undecided between satin glass or clear glass. Since there is a shower and toilet there anyway, we would always have a pleated blind or similar in front of it.

That's a matter of taste. I don’t like satin glass; it makes me feel cut off from the outside world. I would probably take a pleated blind that you can slide to suit yourself. Alternatively, you can also fit the lower window door part with privacy film.

I would also tend to white window frames .. but actually choose a bold plaster color ... very dark red .. image search on Google "verputzte Fassade bordeaux" or fir green/sage ;) , but definitely not a beige or light yellow tone.





Have you already chosen the door color?

And floor-to-ceiling bathroom window ... clear glass and, if it really doesn’t work with pleated blinds and the like, then you can always use film. But if you have a frosted window there, then you can't try the alternatives.

Do you really need the window to be floor-to-ceiling? I would consider making the lower part fixed glazing and only opening the top part. Satin-frosted at the bottom and clear at the top

I can fully understand you visually. I loved clinker and muntins in the north :) Unfortunately, it just doesn't fit here.

We didn't like anthracite either; for our white facade, it became iron mica. Also gray, but without that bluish tint we don't like. I could have also imagined a nice beige, but the delivery time wouldn't have worked out. What I want to say is: there is more than white and anthracite.

By the way, I would have really liked the broom stroke plaster. And then old white or beige with it.