Room height in relation to window and interior door

Hello dear forum,


I would be interested to know if there are any experiences / opinions regarding the planned room heights, windows, and interior doors that we have.


In advance: the "problem" for us is that the top edges of the windows on the ground floor will be "significantly" (?) above the door frame. Do you have the same situation or do you usually plan the top edge of the interior door frame in line with the top edge of the window? Due to the ring beam on the upper floor, we do not have that problem there, since the windows are lowered "downward" and would not be as high as on the ground floor.


GF
Shell height: 2875mm
Floor construction: 180mm
Roller shutter height: 312mm
Shell window sill height: 1125mm


This results in a height of the top edge of the window frame of 2875-312-180, which is 2383mm in the finished room.
The top edge of the interior door frame would then be about 2160mm in the finished room.
That is a difference of 223mm.


Should we rather have the window height reduced (e.g. lintel) on the ground floor to achieve an approximately uniform alignment? We were told that the difference does not matter because windows on the exterior wall and interior doors should be seen as stylistically separate.


If we raise the doors, we would have custom sizes and then we would have different doors on the ground floor and upper floor with the same room height, which also seems odd, right?


I have checked the house construction pictures thread randomly and could not immediately spot such a difference in the pictures.


Best regards

The top edge of the windows does not have to be aligned with the top edge of the doors. We have a room height of 2.7m, the doors are 2.16m (standard size with frame) and the windows are approximately 2.35m high (maximum possible size to accommodate the Venetian blind or roller shutter box). I would always make the windows as high as possible, everything else doesn’t look nice. The doors have no relation to the windows at all, and you don’t buy furniture to match the height of the windows either.

Best regards
Sabine

Interior doors and walls very rarely have the same height... Since both usually do not share the same wall, this is not problematic either. The window height rather depends on how much lintel, roller shutter, venetian blind, etc. one needs.

Don't understand the problem. Frame height and window height are usually never at the same level.

Window height must fit the room height and overall appearance. Interior doors are also never on exterior walls, so a difference is not noticeable. Better to make the doors higher than to make the windows smaller.

I agree with my predecessors: secondly, these heights do not need to be closely matched. And first: if you add the difference of 223 mm to the roller shutter height of 312 mm, you would get 535 mm, which you would then have as the "upper parapet height" between the window and the ceiling.

It is always underestimated how much daylight at the ceiling is reflected light. With such high lintels, it would already get too dark in the rooms more than half an hour earlier at the current time of year, without adding lamp light.

No connection whatsoever, really completely irrelevant. Don't you have an architect?