If building again - what to do differently?

Rolling up shutters, that's really something only complete beginners do. Anyone who isn't making their first mistake knows how shutter armor can be almost silently lying on the lawn within seconds.

Pushing up roller shutters, that's really something only complete beginners do. Anyone who hasn't committed their first break-in knows how roller shutter armor lies almost silently on the lawn within seconds.

For example, I wouldn't know that. And with professional burglars like those under house surveillance, I wouldn't know how to protect myself 100% anyway:
- RC2 - windows are good but not unbeatable (we will have them).
- Window panes with a protective film installed so they can't be broken were "unaffordable" for us.
- Camera is good, you can observe the break-in :-)
- then the question would be whether too much visible protection actually attracts professional burglars?

The only thing I could imagine would be an acoustic alarm connected to a motion detector. Everything else is helpful but does not prevent the break-in.

I wouldn't know, for example.

Perfect, that shows us that you are not a burglar :)

Everything else is helpful but does not prevent the break-in.

Most (common and simple) security measures are not designed to prevent but to delay. It just has to take longer to get in than at the neighbor’s, as silly as it may sound.

what is even the idea behind closing the shutters when you go to bed?

If you want to get to the fridge naked at night and not be seen...

Best burglary protection: look like you have nothing.
So old/small car in front of the door, park the Benz behind the house.
Set up a tube TV in the room facing the street.
Don’t renew the plaster immediately if it looks a bit shabby.
Don’t have a robotic lawnmower, mow with a manual reel mower.
Don’t have the outdoor areas perfectly landscaped by a garden landscaper before moving in, but spend years just shifting earth around on weekends yourself.
Use Euro pallet(s) as entrance platform and terrace, possibly cover with artificial grass, but not the kind with stalks, really just green carpet.
No concrete or steel pool, only inflatable pool from Pearl.
No Steinel lamps, but outdoor and garden lamps from Action!
And of course don’t lower the shutters during vacation (as already mentioned, they don’t help). Better not go on vacation at all, but spend the whole summer on inflatable sun loungers in the garden listening to a cheap radio from Bangladesh (China or Malaysia is already too expensive)...

We are, as is well known, also right in the middle of it, and until some time ago I was one of those who thought they would only build once in their life. Meanwhile, I think that I would definitely take the chance and build again if I found the ultimate mega plot (I always have to think of @11ant’s statement..)

In the Kreuzberg nights of the Gebrüder Blattschuß it is said beautifully that one of the thirty beers yesterday must have been bad. In this sense, I have to ask: which of my seventeen thousand statements do you mean?

4. I would definitely use the service for life-size floorplans and, as always recommended by (either @haydee or @hampshire), arrange or accordingly draw the furniture directly in the floorplan at the actual dimensions.

Yes, I was pointed to "life-size floorplan" by friends via messenger, since I don’t watch formats like "Die Höhle der Löwen" at all (and thus am completely lost when houses from the "perfect dinner" are praised in a neighboring thread) – but I am really very impressed by this idea.

I would like to ask why. Background: We are currently planning quite a few ceiling spots, which of course should be supported by table lamps, floor lamps, etc.

Relatively expensive and overrated. We have these things in the bathroom and bedroom. "Because you have them" was our reason. So the zeitgeist. But we don't even turn them on, in the bathroom we have good mirror lighting with indirect lighting at the bathtub, in the bedroom a two-way switch for the bed lighting. There are such beautiful lamps that would give the same or beautiful light if we needed it. And the next ceiling painting: I already dread it!!!

I have to ask a stupid question – what is the idea behind closing the roller shutters when going to bed? I can understand it in the bedroom, so it stays dark (if you like that), but in the living room? Energy saving? I think I missed something here, but we only use our roller shutters occasionally

As already said: we also rarely have them down. I like my garden in the dark too and like to look outside.

Only that roller shutters do not help with burglary protection.

Energy saving and burglary protection. Of course a roller shutter is not a cure against burglary, but it creates additional effort and noise if it has to be overcome.

Roller shutters are indeed an effort for burglars. Still, not protection. If I were a jeweler, I would have Fort Knox at home. Also as a bank director or relative of Reemtsa. But since I work in the largest security company in the country, I can say generally (although I do not like generalizations): companies are targeted at night, residential houses during the day. Anyone who feels safer with them should use them. Everyone should just do as they please. It is neither obvious, fashionable, nor naturally modern. They provide functionality where it is needed by the resident.