Number / distribution of outdoor lamps for square house approx. 9.40m x 9.40m

If you like an outdoor light and your builder doesn’t want to use the facade for it, you can get creative yourself. A few thoughts on that:
Take a look at outdoor lighting in the area of stage and music. There are surprisingly affordable solutions with appealing light. There is no law that an outdoor lamp has to be on the facade. Installed in the ground in front of the wall and carefully aligned, you can illuminate the wall and the roof overhang without having too much stray light, yet still achieve enough reflection to see where you’re walking at night. You then only need electricity outside, which should be feasible. The rest are underground cables laid close to the house.

I fear that you might believe that only perfectly planned and built houses are discussed here. Visit other people in their houses and you will see the opposite.

We have such a blooper too: part of our attic is a 'development reserve' (= euphemism for junk room). Why I didn’t still put in two roof windows there, heaven knows. It annoys me, but before I get upset about it now, I’d rather not care ;)

When building a house, I find the most important thing is to end up in an area where you feel comfortable, nice surroundings, nice neighbors, and a relationship that remains intact even after the construction project is completed. Everything else follows.

I assume that in this forum I have been known for my poor taste since my initial outline setting and the corresponding discussion about it, which is also okay. Depending on the situation, I plan anyway to invite forum members later, if interested, to an "open house day" for a self-brewed beer to see whether our house has really become that bad. For now, I do not think so. Back to the lamps: I imagine wall lamps roughly like in the photo, perhaps with flickering gas light imitation. Poller lights are also a good idea.

We have two such nostalgic lamps at the house entrance and one on the terrace. At the carport, two up-down spotlights and at the garden house two up-down spotlights. In the garden, by the garden pump, another light post with sockets that discreetly illuminates a small part of the garden.

from the homepage of your home builder. They can do that... no panic :cool:



Outdoor water tap just came to my mind... also useful (works at the carport too, but would have to be planned there as well).

Oh wait, that's probably one of those new things where a forum celebrity calls it an "Anstattvilla," but it has nothing to do with an original villa.

"Forum celebrity" – is that something similar to "provincial celebrity," and is it time for me to leave? – I read...

Fortunately, here in Leipzig – some of the West’s mistakes were not made here – there are wonderful houses that look like something out of a fairy tale when illuminated at night.

...at least to the extent that it still means houses from long before the era of the misuse of the word "villa."

As little as possible, preferably nothing, should be attached to the exterior walls of the house. Underplaster installations are not possible; no switches/buttons; exterior lights (the thread topic) can only be installed at certain spots due to production reasons, which unfortunately do not at all correspond to my aesthetic sense.

Why didn’t we go through this part of your building process together – were you so afraid I’d talk you out of the square floor plan?

Another construction blunder contrary to the existing plan. [...] I fear you might think that only perfectly planned and also as such built houses are being discussed here. Visit other people in their houses, and you will see the opposite. [...] Back then, you basically built a house rhetorically, and today you rather plan a moon landing but then only get a house.

Less is probably reported about the butcher’s houses, and in advertising, the people are all younger and slimmer than in reality. By the way, shoddy work blooming in boom times has always been the case. You plan a concert, and what you then get is more like the rehearsal. Or to stay with the image: you don’t land on the moon, but in Area 51 *smile* ... but on the other hand:

I think the most important thing in housebuilding is without a doubt to end up in an area where you feel comfortable, nice surroundings, nice neighbors, and a relationship that is still intact even after the construction project is completed. Everything else follows.

Yes, that’s the main thing and should remain so. YOLO, relaxed Pareto, too much perfection only gives you gray hair :)
However: from a used-house buyer’s perspective, there is nothing better than divorce houses at the age "just after the warranty period" (if everything was still positively settled during that time).

However: from a used buyer's perspective, there is nothing better than divorce houses at the age "shortly after the warranty period" (if everything was positively clarified during it).

This opens up entirely new purchasing strategies for the desperately searching: Choose a house, induce a divorce of the owners living there, e.g. through hired service providers, and buy the house that will soon be up for sale before it hits the market (NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY!!!)