Thank you for your effort and your work! The last floor plan corresponds to what we already sketched yesterday, but our dissatisfaction with the overall project is growing. We feel like we are in a sliding puzzle – we move rooms here and there, but the overall concept of the house makes less and less sense to me. In particular, there are many compromises involved that really bother me. We are therefore on the verge of tearing up the design submitted as the building application and starting over. Because of this consideration and with the experience from the first draft, we have also begun to ask ourselves some fundamental questions again, for example: Is it sensible to place all the private rooms upstairs and thus put the open roof structure into many small rooms, where it cannot have an effect – but for that, we have a living/dining room that we cannot really use optimally, have to lead the chimney through the second level, etc.
Sure, placing the living areas upstairs is tendentially laborious because all groceries have to be carried up the stairs. However, having a laundry room on the ground floor makes a lot of sense, even if all the bedrooms are upstairs, and currently, we live on the 7th floor with an elevator that only goes to the 6th floor – so for retirement age, we just have to provide an elevator shaft, then it should work. We will look again over the weekend at what styles are available in the wood house sector and then try to redo our planning. As soon as we have something, we will get back to you!
Of course, thanks also to everyone else who has encouraged us to think so far… unfortunately, the house is not as great as we once thought. But better we realize it now than later.
