Pay attention to small details in planning: towel radiator, etc.

Mycraft, doesn't that dazzle terribly?

From what I've seen so far, not really. The picture is from some building blog. I can only report from my neighbors, who have the opposite, i.e. spots in the eaves that shine upwards, and no, they don't dazzle either.

As a neighbor, I would be grateful, it's neither a castle nor a museum...

Besides, I imagine the view would be terrible for oneself too - well, you can then just pull down the shutters...

Hmm why? What's so bad about the view now?

Here is my list from the other thread slightly adjusted:

- Plot within the city
- Bay window and thus more space (even if the architects are now shaking their heads)
- lots of glass surface in the south.
- solar thermal energy
- triple P4A glazing and RC2 windows
- floor-level shower on the upper floor
- corner bathtub
- building automation system with almost everything included
- electric aluminum shutters on all windows including several central and group switches
- contacts on all windows and entrance door
- motor lock
- central ventilation system with demand-based control
- parquet throughout the house (except bathrooms etc. which are tiled)
- large double-leaf door from hallway to living room
- air conditioning on the upper floor
- at least one double socket in every corner, a little more than 100 in the whole house including sockets on all windows, but specifically NOT in the reveal.
- LAN/SAT in every room including bathrooms etc.
- large terrace
- infrared fittings
- video surveillance and alarm system
- display for house control in the hallway and in the bedroom above the bed
- several 3x16A power connections in the garden/carport etc.
- electric towel radiator in the main bathroom
- kitchen waste disposer
- NEST thermostat
- sockets with touch protection

Hello Mycraft,

with the long list, I wonder if you would have wanted/could have paid for all of that? Or is this now just a nice to have?

Don't you have terrace doors facing south?

You have to explicitly deselect that, right?
I thought this was standard

Well, whether these are small matters now remains to be seen

I wrote that it is simply the list from the other thread only slightly modified. That is everything that came on top of the house price and all of it contributes to a better feeling of life, that was the initial question of the OP.


Standard is a broad and unprotected term. Something like "turnkey."

What is "simple standard" for one general contractor is already upscale for another. The third one doesn’t even have "standard" but simply builds to meet the energy saving ordinance and it may be that it is suggested, for example, that triple glazing is standard. But if you get to see the thermal demand certificate, you see that the house would not have reached the required values without it.

Just as an example...

But I have changed the passage.

Btw. I have neighbors who on the south side have just one patio door over a length of 10 m. More was simply not standard

- Bay window and thus more space (even if the architects are now shaking their heads)

Do you mean a dormer in the attic or what do you mean by more space because of that?

- Kitchen waste disposer

Crushing also increases the surface area regarding decomposition odors – I can’t quite imagine tomatoes on the vine, etc., to be so bulky that it would be an overall advantage to crush all that stuff (?)