Plan the house first and only then buy the land?

I am 29 and frugal.

You have to earn very well to reach 200,000 to 250,000 euros in such a short time if you only save. Maybe you should write a small book about it (self-marketing as an ebook) ... Then you really won't need a loan anymore.

I don't find the house as exaggerated in size as everyone here makes it out to be.

Then take a look at real existing single-family homes. Yes, there are also large/great/luxurious ones, but the majority is *by far* more modest than your wish list suggests. You can also see this in the cost discussion in the other thread. Very few build at this scale.

I find it already annoying to clean up our child's mess on 140 m²... I wonder how it would be on 230 m²...

And even more with 300 m²!

Apparently, generally bigger and bigger houses are being built. In my home-building magazine, the trends for 2018 are shown. Hardly any palace under 220m². There are really some nice ones in there. Just google Rensch-Haus and SanDiego. A great thing, I think. 326m² and you don’t get the feeling that it is too big. At least not on paper. But I wouldn’t want to have to clean it.

Apparently, bigger and bigger houses are being built in general. The trends for 2018 are shown in my house-building magazine. Hardly any palace under 220m². There are really some tasty ones included. Just google Rensch-Haus and SanDiego. A great thing, I think. 326m² and you don’t get the feeling that it’s too big. At least not on paper. But I wouldn’t want to have to clean that.

I just took a look [emoji2]
Some parts would be a bit too big for me: living room with 30 sqm would be too uncomfortable for me, office I find okay with 18.
The whole way from the entrance to the utility room I find very far.
Guest toilet also uncomfortable.
Upstairs, the children’s rooms are also oversized in my opinion. A bathroom also does not gain with the increased square meters.
However, I would also use more sqm for a gallery or opening, I gladly admit that
The shoe cabinet upstairs only makes sense to me if I compare such rooms with certain series and that it is supposed to appeal to a corresponding target group. Some women would probably do a lot of good for their husbands just to get this room or this house

Some women would probably do quite a lot of good for their husband just to get this room or this house

If you tweeted something like that, a wave of outrage would probably break over you :P

In my house building magazine, the trends for 2018 are shown.

Such magazines are IMHO not representative. People buy them to dream ... Most of the real-existing houses look different.

Yes. I also wanted to see our house in the house construction magazine. They didn’t want to, it wasn’t architecturally relevant enough and wouldn’t reflect today’s trends…. I really can’t understand what they want…. [emoji6]