Nothing changes for the ground floor. In the attic, which has become an upper floor thanks to the "floor-to-ceiling knee wall," you can allocate a little more space for storage purposes – roughly the same amount of space you lose due to the flatter attic roof. Seen this way, it’s a zero-sum game, no win but no loss. You can’t complain about that.
Quite the opposite. Precisely because of this, you get a city villa where others only have a one-and-a-half-story villa. If you want a villa, this is an advantage – if you want a willah, the standard run-of-the-mill pseudo-Gucci is better.
The developer informed me that the city villa with 2 full stories costs no more than €5,000 extra compared to a one-and-a-half-story house with a gable roof (even with a hip roof shape). The attic windows alone cost around €2,500 MSRP each. Since we need 4 of them, I would rather go for the city villa. However, I think the floor plan fits more with a one-and-a-half-story house. For me, the reason is the house front. Maybe I still have a mental block about that.
I gave some thought to the arrangement of the windows (only the house front, since the rest is quite simple) in the city villa, and this is what came out. Ignore the windows in the ground floor and upper floor plans, as they would need to be partially adjusted.
How would you place the windows?
