Single-family house – new construction project from day one - and the planning begins

Of course, taste-wise. I liked it in the show homes. However, suboptimal for a future stairlift...

There are countless possibilities for stairlifts; but this would only be one of the possible or necessary measures in old age/in illness that might become necessary at some point. I consider the widespread intention to mainly base age-appropriateness on stairlifts, door widths, etc., to be inappropriate unless there is a coherent concept aimed at this or that specific disability/weakness.
In my opinion, age-appropriate building should already begin with the choice of the location of the building site.
Viewed this way, you would certainly have to forgo many other things in your project or implement them accordingly, which currently might not make sense visually/pricewise.
Of course, it may be that exactly THAT case occurs and you want to use a stairlift. But countless other things can also happen that you should at least consider beforehand.
I hardly know anyone who has installed such a lift or could not do without it; usually it is other or several limitations simultaneously.
Therefore, I would not implement it in such a way if it meant having a stair shape in the house for life that I do not like or that blocks other options for me.
If such an emergency occurs, installing a stairlift should be the lesser problem.

It started, as probably with most, with requesting a catalog from a prefabricated house company. For us, that was Fingerhaus in mid-December.

We once visited Fingerhaus at an exhibition in Frankenberg. However, we found all the show model houses extremely impractical and somehow sterile. Of course, you can incorporate your own ideas, but it didn’t convince us, as the houses also lacked character. However, a character might possibly develop over time...

The key data of our planned single-family house:
– Construction site: South Westphalia, district Siegen–Wittgenstein

Coincidentally in the vicinity of Siegen?

We once visited an exhibition in Frankenberg at FingerHaus. However, we found all the model houses shown to be extremely impractical and somewhat sterile. Of course, you can incorporate your own ideas, but it didn't convince us because the houses also lacked character. However, a character may possibly develop over time ...

As I said, the contact was generally very nice and very attentive. However, we had the impression that our building project did not really fit FingerHaus’s standard. In my opinion, they tend to build somewhat smaller, less intricate single-family houses – which is totally fine (but didn’t suit us).

By chance in the vicinity of Siegen?

Sort of... Wittgensteiner Land.

Jaein... Wittgensteiner Land.

Then Bad Berleburg ... :)

Since we found a house that completely convinced us in terms of layout, we decided against a new build.

Since we found a house that completely convinced us in terms of the layout, we decided against a new build.

You can really count yourselves lucky... :)

We are at least very satisfied with the house. Fortunately, there is still a bit more ... :)

Some modernizations/restructuring will certainly take place in the next few years. But nothing is urgent at the moment.