wiltshire
2025-08-14 12:00:13
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The first question concerns life priorities. How do you want to live? For this, four questions are of utmost importance: 1. How does a day go that is a particularly good day? 2. Which routines are frequent, which routines are important, which routines arise from hobbies, inclinations, peculiarities? 3. What appeals to us aesthetically in a special way? 4. What role does our "ego" play in the construction – what do we actually want to satisfy there? Dealing with these questions is not easy even for people who have lived together for a long time. The first answers are usually incomplete and do not reveal what really lies behind. However, if one has a high degree of clarity about this, it becomes clear whether the goal can be achieved with a standard or whether individual planning is better. With individual planning, the first step to the architect is much smarter and also logical in sequence. When obtaining offers, I would visit local carpentry companies and include them if the impression is good. With standard planning, you do not need a separate architect but can base it on an existing standard with a provider (but then cannot change much). Individual planning is generally more expensive, as most people add their wishes together. However, it can also be cheaper if consistent reduction to the essentials is the focus during implementation and things are intelligently simplified. Unfortunately, most people interested in building start out thinking in terms of rooms, square meters, and costs and develop their wishes accordingly. They deal more with the "what" than with the "why." In doing so, they orient themselves on learned behavior and transferred wishes: "that's how it's done (today)."Slowly I am wondering whether it might be smarter to first do the planning with an architect paid by one of us, and then obtain offers from prefab house manufacturers to implement it?