Planning luminous room height - experiences?

That would be clearly too low for me as well. How high is the room at the moment?

Best regards
Sabine

Just go to show homes to see if there are comparable dimensions there. Ultimately, it is always a matter of personal taste how one perceives something.

The rooms are currently about 2.52m high. We already understand that 2.60 or something similar would be optimal -- but as mentioned, it is an old building. Maybe a centimeter or two can still be saved in the floor construction, but it won’t make much of a difference.

So it’s less about what the optimal solution is, and more about whether the possible solution is still good. To put it bluntly – do I only notice the difference if I could see both solutions side by side, or do I really feel uncomfortable? Especially since, besides the option of removing the ceiling, it might also be possible not to design the room completely open. For example, by dividing the space into areas with furniture or keeping the existing sliding door.

The solution with the ceiling opening, as nice as it might be architecturally, leads to the loss of the room above and the necessity to extend the attic immediately (instead of perhaps only in X years, if(!) there is a need).

Looking for similar rooms in show homes is probably a good idea, thanks. We actually have something similar right now, as we live in a rental apartment with an open kitchen/living/dining area of similar dimensions (9.2m x 4.2m, but not quite rectangular and with a total of 3m of windows on the long side). There, we never felt like the ceiling was too low. The new room would be somewhat larger and have windows on the two "short" sides, which are significantly larger at 4m and 3m window width...

Thanks to all of you already for all the answers.

In the new building (thanks to the development plan) we also only have 2.5 m room height with almost 40 sqm area. We don’t notice it as negative. Don’t let yourselves be too unsettled by “it has to be 2.6 m / preferably even more.” You are also renovating in an existing building. The only thing I would rather advise against is a wooden ceiling/dark color on the ceiling.

Speaking of color: google wall design. I can never remember how things then appear, but there are definitely tricks on how to visually influence rooms (light color on the wall and a few cm of white at the top; strongly/darkly accent one wall). You just have to use it skillfully.

Town & Country regularly builds with a height of 247 cm on the ground floor. Try to find a show house that was built by Town & Country. In the Wuppertal area, I could name you one ...

May I ask what your upper floor looks like?

Wuppertal is not exactly around the corner, we are south of Munich The upper floor looks like this: