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You should have asked us how to get a broken white, cream, or something of that kind.

Yes. The list of things I should have asked you beforehand is gradually almost endless. I underestimated the complexity of the issues; everything seemed so easy to me. :) I assumed that the professionals involved would warn against the worst mistakes. But apparently, you only get that service with an architect-designed house. In hindsight, I also think it would have been better if my husband and I had drawn lots to decide who gets to design the house, since we live in very different aesthetic worlds, and the other just sets a few conditions like a separate kitchen or similar. This is what happens when one person wants to go to the sea on vacation, the other to the mountains :) ... and then as a compromise you end up in, for example, G...........n. :)

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This is what you get when one person wants to go to the sea on vacation, and the other wants to go to the mountains :) ... and then you end up as a compromise in, for example, G...........n. :)

That's the problem with such a compromise; the result for you is almost a lose-lose situation. (Although, you have a single-family house, which is never a "lose situation"). It could be done differently ;)

I don’t see it as bad as you do. You have very fixed ideas. How are craftsmen, whether as a general contractor or architect (in the end, they are the same), supposed to warn you against mistakes? They don’t know that the shade you chose doesn’t have the effect in your overall concept.
Symmetry was important to you, I am sure you were warned about that. Most people don’t really like symmetry here.
But seriously. You don’t like the multi-family house look, this cool social housing look. Would you be more satisfied if the symmetry weren’t there? I don’t think so. When the garden is finished and the house doesn’t look lifeless, the multi-family house look and the social housing look are gone.
Your house isn’t finished. Most houses look relatively the same when bare. Only with furniture, decoration, and landscaping do they become more or less individual. You are now at the point where it is decided how the house will appear.
Don’t mourn for what you don’t have. Look forward to what you have. Almost every one of us has a list of things to cross off and had to make compromises.

Yes. The list of things I should have asked you before is gradually almost endless. I underestimated the complexity of the questions, everything seemed so easy to me. :) I assumed that the experts involved would warn against the worst mistakes. But you apparently only get that service with an architect-designed house. In hindsight, I also think it would have been better if my husband and I had drawn lots to decide who gets to design the house, since we live in very different aesthetic worlds, and the other person just sets a few conditions like a separate kitchen or something like that. That's what happens when one wants to go to the sea on vacation, and the other to the mountains :) ... and then you end up, as a compromise, in, for example, G...........n. :)

Believe me, when you have to decide everything alone and then also must, it’s not easier either ;). And things happen that you would have done differently later. But these are not tragedies. You can always change the color, not as easily outside as inside. But honestly, when do you see the house from the outside? Soon there will be plants, then when you come home and when you are in the garden you focus on those. And inside you design little by little the way you like. We also just painted everything white at first due to lack of time. Now I have finished the outdoor area, but now I hardly stay inside anyway, and in autumn another plaster and paint will go on one or another wall.

If I understood you correctly, it is the bathroom on the upper floor.

I think she means

I assumed that the professionals involved would warn against the worst mistakes. But apparently you only get that service with an architect-designed house.

Mistakes are subjective. For example, floor-to-ceiling windows/terrace doors: I don’t see that as a mistake if you choose the frame with the same thickness as other windows. And yes: a building owner should do some research on the topic regarding what they order. That works quite well with cars too ;)

who is allowed to design the house, as we live in very different aesthetic worlds, and the other only specifies a few conditions such as a separate kitchen or similar.

If one only sets a few functional conditions and the other is more aesthetically oriented, the planning should work very well if the one who has no demands on a or b simply stays out of it and trusts.

This is what comes out when one wants to go to the sea on vacation, and the other to the mountains :) ...

The southern coast of Spain near Málaga offers both, Rhodos is known to me where you can reach/have both (mountains and sea) in one day. And there would also be the nice compromise of the mountain lake… everything offers more than G….n ;) if you know what I mean.

It's a pity that you don't like the color of the house. I find it really beautiful. Our neighbors opposite had a similar color and I enjoyed it every day. After almost 20 years, the house was now painted white in an attempt to give the little house a more modern look with a rather playful view. The previous yellow tone was much more harmonious with the red roof. I was so disappointed! I really hope for you that you will change your mind about it.