la.schnute
2020-03-09 22:56:45
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I also really like the floor plan from #123! I also find this "reading nook" on the upper floor very well done; it must make a great impression when you come upstairs! I also find the staircase starting from the living room super beautiful; it must seem very open.
We have the stairs in the hallway, so separated from the living room, which surely has its advantages, but sometimes I wish I could just go from the sofa straight to the stairs and go upstairs; that creates a nice connection to the upper floor.
In our house, the living area and the rest of the house are quite separated, and the rest is used less accordingly, so you did everything right!
Thanks, . It’s true, on the one hand there is the connected living feeling, and on the other hand, there might be situations in the distant future where someone would prefer to sneak upstairs unnoticed. Honestly, I don't think that will happen very often. It surely also has to do with the relationship between the children and the parents, but when I think about my youth, that was never the case with me or my siblings. We were all rather open with each other and even today we have a great relationship where we talk to our parents about pretty much everything. Of course, I often wished in my youth to be alone. Then I simply went to my room; that’s what it’s there for.
And about the reading nook, where there were also different comments: I imagine that to be cozy too. I don't know if it will really be a reading nook because I haven’t gotten much time to read in recent years , but somehow a friendly room for everyone, where my boyfriend can also roll out his yoga mat or so. Also gladly for the kids to play (why should they be in the way? I didn’t quite understand that ). And I think THAT is super important, even in small houses: not cluttering every cm² with practical storage cabinets but leaving some air and light. I gladly forgo stuff for that.
Idea for the stair railing. Instead of a railing in the upper floor hallway, we installed cabinets – 95 cm high with a baseboard and 50 cm deep. All bed linens, towels, and supplies for the bathrooms go in there. This saves space in the other rooms. Maybe you could still fit cabinets with 30 cm depth there. We have significantly more space than you, but maybe you can still do something with the idea.
And I’ve already been thinking about exactly something like that: a few airy lowboards under the stair railing, why not.
Your optimism and enthusiasm aside, you are assigning numerous non-trivial trades to your father-in-law. I hope you have something in reserve for the event that he eventually isn’t so sure or can no longer contribute as planned for other reasons. Sloppy work on the foundation slab and gas boiler can end catastrophically.
That’s true. Without our parents, this whole project would be unthinkable. My parents supported us with equity, my father-in-law is an expert when it comes to construction. I consider sloppy work due to lack of knowledge to be out of the question: As I said, he is a trained plumber and had his own heating/sanitary company together with his brothers, so definitely a professional in the field. Of course, he is not a roofer or bricklayer, that’s absolutely right (even though he expanded and developed his own house during the GDR times himself). But the alternative would always be to hire a company. Then the buffer just has to be tapped. In fact, I hope even more strongly that corona stays away from our parents, who are already partially of retirement age.
Painting and decorating a new building is very time-consuming if you want a neat result.
The steps are:
Fill all drywall surfaces with joint compound, using mesh tape. Usually, three rounds of filling with sanding in between are necessary.
Sand walls to remove efflorescence. Fill, fine sanding.
Fill window sills, place acrylic joints at reveals.
For drywall ceilings, it is advisable to glue a stucco molding at the corner between ceiling and wall; it conceals the cracks that will definitely form there later.
Apply primer to all plaster surfaces. Apply acrylic joint to door frames.
Roll walls and ceilings twice. Mask windows and other things well and cleanly. Protect tiled floors well. Apply leveling compound to non-tiled floors. Vacuum well beforehand.
Sand leveling compound, vacuum. Now glue floors. Install baseboards. Seal joints on stairs or at door thresholds with MS polymer or silicone.
For us, bathrooms and kitchen were covered with fiberglass instead of painted; the fiber painted with latex.
108 sqm bungalow, 100 hours. For everything. K.
Is that so? That sounds very much like timber frame construction to me? We are building monolithically with aerated concrete blocks/Ytong. That means basically: aerated concrete blocks, plaster outside, plaster inside, done ...
And concrete ceilings are also not ready to paint and smooth, but must be filled, unless everything is supposed to be raw industrial.
...because it is allowed/should be a bit raw industrial. We might skip fine filling and maybe even white paint. But I can only decide that finally when I see it.
Where do you live? My husband has 26 days of vacation a year, and Christmas and New Year's Eve were not worked. I am self-employed and basically never have time off. You melt butter in the sun on those days when building.
Well, we both actually have exactly 30 vacation days. And if necessary, of course also grandmas and other relatives and acquaintances who also look after the kids. But of course, I would like to see them from time to time, so we have to realistically assess the parental allowance [Elterngeld]. It will certainly go slowly. The only time pressure we then have is from the loan. But if we have to start repaying, we might also temporarily move in with my uncle who lives only two streets from the plot and is rarely home (actually, we wanted to buy his property from him, but unfortunately he didn’t want to...).
I would, as I wrote earlier, rather arrange the stairs so that you can enter them from the entrance area without walking through the living-dining area.
But if you like it better as in the design, then I would make a storage room out of that "reading nook" on the upper floor. With such a small budget and saved square meters, I would also use every corner practically, and you will probably need storage space somewhere.
Was storage space in the attic actually not possible for you, or did I overlook that?
I also initially thought about turning the landing stairs to the side, but then the external dimensions don’t fit that well (it would have to be longer again) and the window can’t be integrated as nicely. I just like it architecturally less. Also, because the wardrobe on the ground floor now comes together so nicely as if by itself.
A storage room on the upper floor - I’ve said it several times - I honestly don’t know what I would even put in there . For me, everything always has to be sorted thematically, meaning most things are directly in the rooms where they are needed. Bathroom cleaners and towels in the bathroom, bed linens in the wardrobe next to the bed, etc....hmm, I really have no idea what should go in there.
Storage under the roof is not planned for now, but I see the point for maybe someday an old piece of furniture or so. With studio binders it would probably be possible. However, the height under the ridge will then be no more than 1.20 m... so really only crawl space.