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Tidier, yes. But hardly feasible because of the 2-meter line and the bathroom fixtures. But a fridge of 25cm makes many things more doable.


Regards, Yvonne

Exactly. Done.

The thing with the toilet bowl at the top is probably true, but not unsolvable. Dressing room below. If you do without it, you get the possibility to push bedroom 2 into the corner, and directly next to the main bathroom you gain space for a guest WC with a window. And suddenly you have a square utility room with space for a freezer or something like that. Where it is now drawn, next to the washing machine, then a utility sink, one of those raw sinks for cleaning fish and such. Only cold water, that's available, since the washing machine also has water and drainage.

Also true. Hm.

Oh, and I even managed to plan the sauna downstairs. But I failed due to my wife's veto. The sauna has to be upstairs with a lying area for relaxing. Outside the living area. For the sake of quiet. She doesn't want to go outside after saunaing. Well. And now also with a slightly larger dining area; the lounge room is smaller and the gallery bigger. Not bad either, it creates a nice reading area up there. The staircase runs the other way round, so from the hallway. Now you can even build a display cabinet or little cupboard under the dining room. However, Nordlys' suggestion is running through my head again...

Strongly pronounced resistance to advice...

Despite 3 revisions!!!:
- the damn bathroom is still in the middle of the house
- to get upstairs you still have to go through the living room or kitchen
- confusing bedroom layout, once with a walk-in closet and once without

Normal procedure for questions from noobs to pros:
Noob: Does this look okay?
Pro: I think you should make the kitchen bigger because then you can walk around the table better and have more storage space and...
Noob: Thanks, sounds good, and since you've already built, I believe you know what you're talking about

Here, however:
Noob: What why? (18m²) is almost 20m², that's more than enough, what are you actually trying to tell me? I'm not swallowing your suggestions.

(And no, I'm definitely not a pro)

The only thing I can respect here is the patience of the moderators.

If I had to bet: the house will never even be built anything like this.

Regards

I see it differently. Whether a kitchen is open or closed. Whether a living room is big enough and the staircase in it is okay? Whether the two bedrooms are good? All of that is a matter of taste. We are not here to judge that. Everyone is different. And the mantra "This is how you do it" does not apply here. The only thing to judge would be: Is what you are planning functional? Does a table fit there? (One person says it’s too tight, another says it’s still big enough...) Have you considered drainage? Etc.
It is certainly true: Henry’s house will not be a house for everybody, but a very special building. But it also doesn’t have to suit everyone, only this building couple has to like it. And I do believe that they will build it similarly. They seem wildly determined to me.

The

mfg

can be left out. It doesn’t fit with the rest.

What I would like to add:

I assume that someone who is planning a house thinks about how they want to live, incorporates experience (most have probably already lived somewhere?) and accordingly sets their priorities.
Now they put their idea on paper, turn to a forum and look forward to comments and constructive criticism. CONSTRUCTIVE.

That also came from some. Someone is happy about that. And some even questioned things. Someone is even happier about that. But there were also others who obviously just felt like bashing – at least someone understood it that way. And someone doesn’t like that. That can cause someone to get snappy, which of course is just as little constructive and stupid. But someone is only human, SORRY.

A culture of conversation in these lands hardly exists anymore. At least I am glad to be able to share in the other person’s thoughts, get to know their motives and then, if they want (in this case for example), contribute my suggestions constructively. For me, constructive means that when I criticize, I also think about what I myself could change about the point of criticism. ME. That does not mean that I have to impose MY point of view on the OTHER.

But that also means that I really have to engage with the other person and take time. If I don’t want or can’t do that, I just leave it. AT LEAST I.

Well, that probably never really works in a forum like this and maybe can’t.

Oh, and up there someone talks about respecting?