But I don’t quite understand these phases of defiance from you, which do not show any insight and then your justification that others probably also don’t plan for more space (see your floor plan requirement).
I watched this thread shaking my head last night and today and told myself that it makes no sense to write anything here.
I think the time has come where it is good to stop.
You want to convince Erfurter that he should have his floor plan revised again. You have good arguments for this, which I also agree with myself. With these arguments, you want to help him. But he does not want to hear/understand these arguments or is actually convinced that everything is fine as it is.
There is no point in starting a quarrel here. It will be his house. He has to live in it and in the worst case, regret it afterward. Therefore, draw a line under it.
And one more tip: never believe friends or relatives about what they think of your design. They will think everything is great anyway.
That is not entirely true, by the way. We repeatedly showed the floor plans to friends and relatives, collected their suggestions and ideas, and evaluated them for ourselves. Usually, the suggestions were quite sensible.
Only one party approved everything without comment.
@Erfurter - The users here don’t mean you any harm. They want to point out potential problems to you and want to protect you from possible mistakes. It is said that one builds three times in life and every time you finish, you find various things that could be improved. Personally, I do not intend to build more than once. That is why I take the tips/suggestions to heart and try to evaluate them neutrally.
My tip to you is to write down all the arguments listed here (in detail). You have already been told what kind of things, for example, need to be accommodated (I also find the last paragraph from Perlemann at 10:03 a.m. very good here). Think this through calmly and consult your family and friends with this exact list (it helped me). Ask them to think about it calmly and to tell you openly what they think about it.
That’s my statement on this. I’m out now.