Planning guest WC in new construction - How big should it be? (DIN?)

The future dining table will definitely be extendable. For now, our current small kitchen table is moving with us anyway. Life experience has shown, however, that we spend 95% of the time with guests at the kitchen table and 5% of the time in the living room. Therefore, it should be a large kitchen table. Folded up for everyday use, unfolded when guests come. It just has to fit and not necessarily radiate pure harmony visually.

And celebrating should not be a problem. It never was in my old 50m2 apartment and won’t be in the semi-detached house either. If it ever needs to be bigger, there are actually many options in Hamburg that we have already used in the past.

We also asked about a technical basement. But the price was over the budget. And with the house dimensions, the price wasn’t that far from a full basement either. Inflation and the world situation unfortunately made the project much more expensive than originally expected.

I don’t mean a basement! Simply a one-story, "poorly insulated" extension directly attached to the house for the technical equipment. It is 3m deep and stands on our boundary, so it doesn’t trigger any setback (the condition is no gas, no oil, no pellets). That’s how we solved it and for us at least, it was the perfect solution. A basement is definitely much more expensive and complicated, especially with the (stair) access.

Ah okay. We have considered something along those lines, yes. But more in the sense of keeping the utility room small and, if more storage space is needed, attaching a minimally insulated storage room. But good point, I'll keep that in mind.

How often does this happen?

As long as you are young, probably not. But it can happen when you are older.

Looks great, how was the upper gray paint done? Is it plastered or wallpaper? regards

Thank you. A painter did that for us, it is wallpaper with an effect paint over it that has a slight texture in silver metallic.

As long as you are young, probably not. But it can happen in old age.

Yes, sure, it can happen. It can also be that you are home alone and don't get any help. The danger is much greater. I mean, you can't eliminate all dangers. If it works, fine. Then you can plan it that way. If not, I wouldn't redesign the house afterwards.