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I think it's great that "someone" has finally decided again on a cozy house with sloping ceilings.
Thank you for letting us be a part of it.

That's why the whole thing simply depends mostly on the largest slope of the property … ours drops 2 meters over 30 meters, the path to the front door is alone 15 m, etc…. That’s what makes it expensive.

I don’t see anything here that necessarily requires an expensive landscape gardener. We have about the same slope now, which could be terraced in several steps and the slopes planted. Doesn’t require much equipment. Alternatively, something a bit fancier with natural stone blocks and several small walls. Up to about hip height this is doable by a layperson.
And vibrating plates can be found cheaply used, for example. Mine cost 250€, and if I’m ever finished (the book recommendation from is to blame that my garden plan keeps getting more elaborate ;) ), I can resell it for about the same price. Comparable ones at the hardware store cost 90€/week plus rubber mat, so they’re also okay if you do it all at once. The only thing here that will really need heavier machinery is terrain modeling, but then you just have to rent a mini excavator for a few days. With some searching you can rent one for 90€ gross per day.
Sure, a 15m path requires material, but you have that even without a landscape gardener. And the material for a 5m path doesn’t cost that much more if you don’t go overboard on materials. That’s rather the problem when I look around here in the forum. Expansive terraces are made with 1.20x1.20 tiles from expensive materials, which of course then calls for a specialist. And then 2m walls are planned right against the house or the terrain is forced into shape with L stones (which due to their weight can only be moved with a digger). That obviously then costs a lot of money.

So for us, the entire border to the eastern neighbor had to be framed with L stones from the garage to the end of the property because we filled it up to street level and the neighbor did not ... but we wanted to be able to enter the house on the same level ... whatever ... to each their own ...

They were worth every cent because often water comes down from the field above, and I didn't want that in the house ... I am now OKF above the street and very happy about that

I am now OKF above the street and very happy about it

Does that mean you drain onto the street? Don’t you get into trouble for that?

Does that mean you drain onto the street? Don't you get into trouble with that?

So when it rains heavily here, there is a torrent flowing past my house. I don't want that on my property... x0 cm top edge of floor (OKF) above street level were also allowed (I would have to look up the exact specification). Neighbors down the street were unfortunately already under water...

OK, then that is apparently due to the circumstances. We are absolutely not allowed to drain onto public street land. This was emphasized again. But we also do not have a slope. And luckily, the street itself slopes slightly away from us, so I am not very worried about flooding on our property.