With proper bricks, you don’t need any insulation at all. That’s at least one of the advantages...
True :)
I agree with you.
Just draw a floor plan on graph paper in a sensible scale (1 square = 0.5m), so you can visually see your really rough ideas you described here. Then you could discuss such a proposal.
That is really a great idea :)
Floor plans are actually what I've been constantly looking at after the appearance of houses.
We'll take it easy and start with that tomorrow.
My current assessment: You’re setting the wrong priorities when it comes to house building. In planning, the heating system/home cinema/built-in furniture can be a point on the checklist, but the detailed thoughts you put into those should really be invested in considerations about room layout.
Good approach :)
We’ll start like that tomorrow first...
What does your daily life and work routine look like?
We basically spend 24/7 most of the time at home and don’t go outside ^^
We also work from home.
Why do you need a study with an attached private bathroom then?
Something got mixed up there.
The study doesn’t need its own bathroom.
That was just a list where maybe I missed a comma?
Dropped ceilings?
The idea behind this arose for various reasons.
Since we want a ventilation system, on the one hand the pipes will disappear behind it.
On the other hand, the wish for dropped ceilings came up, to be able to retrofit cables and conduits later on and only have cables disappear in the wall where they run down to the corresponding sockets and switches.
Not to be absolutely restricted regarding cable retrofitting and maximum short distances in case a wall needs to be opened later on—and not all walls throughout the house—if you ever need KNX or power cables or LAN cables somewhere that you didn’t think of in the beginning.
So flexibility in retrofitting, because except for WLAN (which will be turned off by a smart-home capable system from Unifi at the push of a button when going to bed, like everything else), we absolutely do not want to use any radio signals in the house anymore.
This means that under the dropped ceilings there should be cable trays in which cables can also be pulled later.
Above technical shafts, retroactive cable installation across floors should be possible.
So it’s about retrofittability due to the variety of technology we want to use.
How big do your studies have to be? What professional requirements are behind them? We both work a lot from home, but without holding telephone/video conferences and share 15 sqm. This includes archiving materials once a year to create space.
We work almost exclusively from home. Currently in a room about 19 something sqm.
That is too small for us.
Furthermore, it’s always problematic when we’re both in the same telephone/video conference and hear each other.
That’s often distracting while working.
Therefore, two separate studies with space are important for us.
Since we also work on a board during a video conference to clarify workflows, we need some free movement space and a bit more room, as each of us has his own area in the company, where the areas eventually flow together anyway.
Since we currently clutter each other and each of us needs space for 4 monitors, our desks are already accordingly large.
There are also various filing cabinets you simply need; we want to design it more functional and divided and with sound separation, whereby a solid wall, whether drywall or masonry, is sufficient in between.
It’s not for making music, only for speaking.
So about 16-18 sqm per study makes sense.
Especially because during a conference we like to move around as if during a presentation and not just stand still.
Someone here already wrote, roughly, that you are building a house to live in, not living a life that adapts to the house.
True, ultimately the house should adapt to our life (thus also the idea for flexible retrofitting).
But you are absolutely right about the floor plan.
The best idea that has come up during our thought and info phase so far.
Budget topic: Make an appointment at the bank and bring your preparations (income, equity, offers/calculations from the internet) and move away from the “We just roughly asked so-and-so”. As long as you continue like this, not only will the band around the bundle stay on, it’s even shrunk in foil, and you don’t have scissors to open it.
You are probably right about that.
We’ll approach it like that soon as well.
Even though I’m still tearing your post apart right now, I’ve already noted everything :)
We wanted to build a solid house because our gut feeling told us so. Opinions on that are about as balanced as the split between Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd. If you have a reasonable architect and a confident and reliable builder, you can be happy with either house type.
True ^^
I think what really is needed here are visits to the respective companies.
And advice, advice, advice until you make a firm decision here.
I come from a solid masonry house.
However, I was, or rather mentally have been, thinking about a prefab house; why? No idea... through the internet.
The advantages and disadvantages you read about never really helped us here because in the end we always have the gut feeling that a solid masonry house is just solid, which, however, is also written somewhere else about prefab houses.
If the trip from the Harz to a model house park is too far, then you probably don’t really want to build. Those can usually also be visited on Sundays when fewer people are around. Especially without children and obligations, I can’t understand that attitude when it’s about a project in the high six-figure range. We drove 350 km just to see a clinker on a reference facade because everything was closed due to Corona and we didn’t want to make a decision based on 3 sample bricks. That’s what I meant in the beginning with priorities.
True, for us it’s more a matter of overcoming to leave our little fortress.
We don’t like being around people.
Not because we put all people in a drawer, that is more historically conditioned with us, since we have experienced both a burglary and stalking in the past.
Therefore, we have been living very secluded for many years.
Regarding friendships, over the years you notice which friends are more interested in themselves rather than in us...
Which leads in the end to only a small, true circle of friends who are interested in maintaining contact.
Because we literally live shut off in a high-security castle (referring to security equipment and absolutely untraceable location of the apartment), we want to have the space inside that we don’t use outside precisely because we practically never go out unless absolutely necessary.
Ultimately, being so secluded and shut off suits us well in the end.
But basically, there is interest in taking a closer look at such parks to get ideas and a feeling for the space you want to create.
Better than only on paper or 3D on the PC.
We’ll do it :)
Summary:
- Draw up the plan and ponder together over wine/beer/non-alcoholic drinks what we like
We’ll do that tomorrow :)
- Choose and buy a plot of land
Easier said than done, but it’s part of it :)
Unfortunately, here again the leaving of one’s own sense of security.
But doable and not impossible ^^
Time for walks again ^^
Make an appointment for bank advice
- Visit model houses to develop a sense of space
Will do...
- Basement? I have never seen a use for it and was always afraid as a kid to go down there
Basement because: the tech should go there, and I want a laundry chute right in front of the washing machine ^^
Plus the space requirement for our technology and storage, in case it takes longer again before we want to leave the house ^^
And the storage space you gain there is not to be underestimated for the comparatively low price.
A basement doesn’t have to be ugly if it’s white and tiled :)
My parents’ basement was scary too, but it doesn’t have to be built like that :)
Theoretically, the offices could also be accommodated there as far as I’m concerned.
Since we also want a guest room with a separate bathroom.
- Solid house/prefab house? Listen to your gut feeling
Gut feeling says actually solid, but my gut really doesn’t know either ^^
Long story short.
Many thanks for the red thread :)
At least now I have the path we tried to find, and we’ll start with the floor plan tomorrow.
As soon as we have a presentable one, I can upload and share it.