This is furniture/interior and can be placed or hung anywhere.
This is not a "house"
True, I was not so clearly aware of the difference. However, I do think that furniture/interior can compensate a lot.
Why? That is quite unimportant. 4 sqm here, 4 sqm there. Plus a window with a sill. 10 sqm bring more than enough light. And if it should only be 160 cm wide, that does not matter, right?!
Windows and patio doors are almost my main topic. From the floor plan you can tell that I subordinate many other things to that. Probably it’s because I lived in a house that had large windows on three sides. Impractical, yes, but from my point of view very conducive to well-being. And wherever there is a window or a patio door, there is already no furniture (with possible contents) that I have to take care of.
If you don’t care whether you have a coat rack, you shouldn’t care how wide a window is.
I do care whether I have a coat rack or not. I just don’t like them in small houses and apartments because they are almost always cluttered or there’s a cabinet where I don’t want one. We put our few everyday jackets and everyday shoes in the utility room; the higher quality clothing and shoes are in the respective his and hers rooms anyway. I have lived almost my whole life without a coat rack and I liked it that way.
Why is it important? You don’t even see it. You look at your carport or your front garden... really now: it doesn’t matter whether you come dry or wet to the front door, but to care about the little edge ... that’s hard to understand.
Admittedly, that is a matter of feeling. Sounds exaggerated, but I feel it when the roof is too steep. I would get used to it, but I can also do it differently right away as long as I have the option. Aesthetically, it would of course bother me as well.
I have to be honest that I probably have a personal problem when people just build a house like that without optimal planning and throw money around as if it were worthless.
If I come across like that to you (and others), I can only assure you that it is not the case. We just differ in our perspectives on what is "optimal." If I were building just for myself, the house would look different and I could implement more of your suggestions. But it is a house for a couple and the preferences of both (the large bathroom with a sauna in the house, the utility room, the separate kitchen) have to be taken into account.
Facade, roof and windows get higher priority than the interior of the house. Then decoration has to compensate for that, and you even plan that.
I have probably expressed myself unclearly too often, but I cannot explain it better than I already have in my previous posts.
And before the sale, extensions and conversions are done so that any target group is addressed at all...
If you mean our previous house, it was 70 years old. And yes, a large house with only one bathroom is nowadays hard to sell. We simply did not know beforehand: better 5 large, nice rooms and one bathroom or 4 large, nice rooms and an additional shower bathroom. As soon as the second bathroom was installed, the house sold within hours.
I’m done now.
I don’t know if this comment means that you wanted no further reply from me. But you wrote so much and helpfully that I don’t want to withhold an answer. I interpret it as if this topic is now closed for you, which I find okay.