And poof, my quotes have disappeared.
No matter what is unimportant, it simply won’t be commented on here with me.
What stuck with me: a floor plan is not intimate, nor do floor plans hurt with compromises.
Off topic: If someone wants to have a sauna room and doesn’t want everyone to know, they just call it a hobby room! Whether they sit on the toilet or have preferences in the fridge or if the toothpaste tube always stays open, a floor plan doesn’t reveal that. As long as it is a drawing, there is nothing intimate about it.
And when in a large, individually planned house something doesn’t turn out like Pinterest, it is known not to hurt either.
I find the decision for the parent area completely okay, and if later you want it differently, then you find (painless) compromises. Then maybe you swap with the office rooms?! That could be planned that way. (By the way, “could” is the counterpart to “would have,” I just realized ;) )
When you plan a house, the rooms should fit together homogeneously. That’s why you don’t plan single rooms and just glue them together, but instead stake out the house on the plot and plan from rough to fine.
First with—yes—standard dimensions so that something works at all, then you become more specific. Everyone should have their own individual house, but many just call their own “house planning” individual and try to excuse their faux pas with it.
What happened to the Mediterranean town villa and the much-loved slanted walls? The first plan had 6 of them at once (I flipped back to the beginning, so 2020). Even though I prefer a nice KS and your intended air space can look very nice under a sloped roof instead of an equally large air space in a two-story, I wonder where the premises have gone? Why is there no connection to that?
About the air space/gallery: my parents had one, family-unfriendly implemented on the ground floor, but upstairs a great room for everyone, or I once played there with the concept of traffic routes in the house, my mother now uses the space as decoration and writing room. It was always a great room when you had bigger things to sew or tinker with.
I have now built something similar.
If you ask a question here, you get answers. That is the point! If a question is already pointless, counter-questions come. Even if something is not conclusive...
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A questioner should be glad to receive answers from experienced people. He can filter out what is not agreeable to him. After all, we are not in an online encyclopedia or so, but in a forum where many opinions are sought (crowd knowledge) and conclusions can be drawn as a whole.
About 50% of the questioners here feel attacked when criticism rains down. I find the question quite justified what these people are looking for here in the forum if the sense and purpose is brainstorming.
If you want to give the advice here that one should get professional consultation, you get the answer that they either have no idea or don’t address the individual needs or taste (which means the architect does not want to draft every nonsense). Ultimately, the attitude is that the professional is only good if he approves everything and makes it doable.
He is no longer considered a partner—just like here in the forum after at most the third page people are blocked because everyone somehow gets on their nerves.