To what extent do you consider living in old age when building?

  • Erstellt am 2016-08-12 21:10:03

kbt09

2016-08-13 09:11:18
  • #1
Alternatively to stairlifts, one can also consider so-called home and vertical lifts. They usually require little space. Perhaps only a corner in the house should be prepared regarding the ceiling breakthrough. Just google it.
 

Climbee

2016-08-13 09:35:58
  • #2
Good idea, I'll look into that! Thank you.
 

ypg

2016-08-13 11:16:30
  • #3


We were 10/20 years older when planning the house. You can also plan the space that is not usable for children preventively for old age. Shower on the ground floor, also a level-access room where you could sleep, that should be included in the planning for many from the price perspective. Possibly now a huge living room that can be sensibly separated later. You usually can’t plan for every possibility of disability. Barriers like unnecessary corners or walls, everything planned to tight centimeters, you can always consider yourself. Strokes come unexpectedly, and young people are also at risk. I have also been in the situation of not being able and allowed to walk due to foot surgery. It is nice to still be able to enjoy the advantages of the house with simple disabilities :)
 

toxicmolotof

2016-08-13 14:47:51
  • #4
Since the request came via PM to show our floor plan.... said and done.

The necessary doors should be logical in order to create spatial separation between the ground floor and the upper floor.

I would like to point out that this is not permission to simply use the floor plans. They may be used for inspiration. If someone wants to use more than just inspiration, we should talk about it. Of course, I am open to feedback.





 

Weimy

2016-08-13 20:44:19
  • #5
We completely overturned our original plan and have all our rooms on the ground floor; the children's rooms and the study are upstairs. A caregiver could possibly move in there as well, an additional bathroom is also on the upper floor. As a result, our house has become quite large... we now have a total of 240 sqm of living space... but our house is now almost finished, I hope we can move in in about 6 weeks.
 

Grym

2016-08-14 01:36:41
  • #6
We are just about, or not quite, 30 and will not pay attention to this issue. Long before a staircase should become an obstacle, for example, all the garden work, house cleaning, and everything else around it simply becomes overwhelming. Also, in a two-story house, in my opinion, it would be a great waste to limit oneself to just one floor. Besides, we are planning a study on the ground floor, which could at least serve as a single bedroom, and a shower on the ground floor is also planned.

However, we are building in a very good location, i.e., close to the city center, and would probably be able to sell the house easily and quickly for a good price. Or inherit it earlier. In any case, I do not rule out that maybe at 50, 60, or 70 years old we simply move back to a city apartment without garden work, without much cleaning, and other duties like snow shoveling. For the next 20 years, a house is certainly optimal, but after that, one can switch again, or in 30 or 40 years.

In America, the trend to change houses quickly has existed for a long time, and such a trend is known to spread here after at most 10 years. We also know people who move from a family house to a newly built bungalow after the children have moved out. They are about in their mid-50s. And then perhaps, in their mid-70s, back to the city and sell the bungalow? Other acquaintances want to move from the family house back to a city apartment now in their late 50s, which we also do not exclude.

To put it into perspective: Those who have built in the countryside and will probably only get much less than the value for their house and who perhaps do not like a city apartment anyway, should maybe pay more attention to this. Our nonchalance towards this issue also partly stems from the fact that building land and family houses are extremely in demand here and will remain so in this region.
 

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