Hello,
My wife and I visited a model home park for prefabricated houses yesterday, and we noticed that each house offered various features and floor plans whose practical benefits I don’t quite understand. That’s why I’m starting this thread, hoping you can explain the advantages of these choices or point out what I might be missing and why it still makes sense to design a house that way:
1. Almost every house had floor-to-ceiling windows installed. What’s the purpose of these? I imagine they would be terrible both in summer and winter. Wouldn’t it get extremely hot in summer? And in winter, don’t you constantly have to lower the blinds so that anyone passing by can’t look directly into the living room or inside the house? Also, isn’t the effort to clean those windows huge? Am I missing something? Do they have advantages that I don’t see?
2. There wasn’t a single house where the kitchen and dining area were separated from the living space; at best, the kitchen was separated from the dining area. I understand that having everything open makes the space appear larger and is better for hosting many people, but isn’t it very impractical? If I’m frying or cooking something in the kitchen, doesn’t the whole living room end up smelling like food? It would also bother me that as soon as my wife or I have guests over, the other person couldn’t sit in the living room and watch TV quietly, for example. This might sound a bit picky, but for me, it’s important that everyone can invite their friends without the other person always being within earshot or needing to get out of the way somehow. Why are open-plan ground floors so common? What are the real advantages?
3. The balconies on the upper floor are always accessible from one of the children’s bedrooms and the parents’ bedroom. Doesn’t that significantly affect privacy? I can’t imagine it’s great if my child can constantly knock on our bedroom door via the balcony, for example. Also, if you have two children, wouldn’t the one without a balcony be at a disadvantage?
I don’t want to bias you with my opinions here—I’m completely open to your views because I’d like to be convinced of the benefits. So I would like to know your reasons for including such features in your plans. Alternatively, has anyone built in a more “traditional” way and can speak to the practicality of these layout choices?
Best regards
My wife and I visited a model home park for prefabricated houses yesterday, and we noticed that each house offered various features and floor plans whose practical benefits I don’t quite understand. That’s why I’m starting this thread, hoping you can explain the advantages of these choices or point out what I might be missing and why it still makes sense to design a house that way:
1. Almost every house had floor-to-ceiling windows installed. What’s the purpose of these? I imagine they would be terrible both in summer and winter. Wouldn’t it get extremely hot in summer? And in winter, don’t you constantly have to lower the blinds so that anyone passing by can’t look directly into the living room or inside the house? Also, isn’t the effort to clean those windows huge? Am I missing something? Do they have advantages that I don’t see?
2. There wasn’t a single house where the kitchen and dining area were separated from the living space; at best, the kitchen was separated from the dining area. I understand that having everything open makes the space appear larger and is better for hosting many people, but isn’t it very impractical? If I’m frying or cooking something in the kitchen, doesn’t the whole living room end up smelling like food? It would also bother me that as soon as my wife or I have guests over, the other person couldn’t sit in the living room and watch TV quietly, for example. This might sound a bit picky, but for me, it’s important that everyone can invite their friends without the other person always being within earshot or needing to get out of the way somehow. Why are open-plan ground floors so common? What are the real advantages?
3. The balconies on the upper floor are always accessible from one of the children’s bedrooms and the parents’ bedroom. Doesn’t that significantly affect privacy? I can’t imagine it’s great if my child can constantly knock on our bedroom door via the balcony, for example. Also, if you have two children, wouldn’t the one without a balcony be at a disadvantage?
I don’t want to bias you with my opinions here—I’m completely open to your views because I’d like to be convinced of the benefits. So I would like to know your reasons for including such features in your plans. Alternatively, has anyone built in a more “traditional” way and can speak to the practicality of these layout choices?
Best regards
Let's be honest:
If you still have "good" dishes that spend most of their life collecting dust in a display cabinet, or a room that’s hardly used during the week, then you probably have too much time and too much money.
People, just use your things and enjoy the nice stuff every day!
If you still have "good" dishes that spend most of their life collecting dust in a display cabinet, or a room that’s hardly used during the week, then you probably have too much time and too much money.
People, just use your things and enjoy the nice stuff every day!
S
stefanc8419 Oct 2017 11:59I don’t understand that either. I’m not going to build two rooms for eating and buy two sets of furniture. But well, everyone has their own ideas.
For us, it’s quite traditional. The kitchen is where the mess, disorder, and “noise” of meal preparation happen. In a separate, large room is the dining-living area for relaxing and spending time together.
For us, it’s quite traditional. The kitchen is where the mess, disorder, and “noise” of meal preparation happen. In a separate, large room is the dining-living area for relaxing and spending time together.
Kitchen, when I leave it, there is always some dirt. I always manage that well.
Good dishes are like clothes. There are some for Monday morning and some for Saturday night. The same applies to glasses and plates. There have to be differences, otherwise everything is the same and soon nothing matters anymore. Then you end up celebrating Christmas Eve in the Uncle Sam muscle shirt with parachute silk gangster pants. Karsten
Good dishes are like clothes. There are some for Monday morning and some for Saturday night. The same applies to glasses and plates. There have to be differences, otherwise everything is the same and soon nothing matters anymore. Then you end up celebrating Christmas Eve in the Uncle Sam muscle shirt with parachute silk gangster pants. Karsten
Nordlys schrieb:
We are skipping the pass-through window, and even the partition wall, combining the kitchen/dining area with the living room. An open plan.
To me, this is a design mistake.In the past, people had meals. Nowadays, there are fluid transitions in both directions between eating and "living" (of which probably only the remnant "watching TV" remains). It’s no surprise that unhappiness increases faster than prosperity.kaho674 schrieb:
And anyway, if at all, then definitely Meißner.Woelki. Meisner is retired.Nordlys schrieb:
Then you spend Christmas Eve in an Uncle Sam muscle shirt with parachute silk streetwear pants.If this sentence falls into the wrong hands, this year’s TV will be “Christmas with Ottmar Zittlau and Atze Schröder” as a three-part series *LOL*https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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I simply don’t see the point in having dirt tracked through half the house, and here it can’t really be avoided otherwise.
The men and our boys are not keen on having to completely change clothes every time they come in from the yard.
So they only take off their boots/shoes, shake out their clothes, wash their hands in the utility room, and then come inside. When it’s quitting time, the laundry basket is also placed there, for example.
We don’t only go into the living room on holidays, just to be clear.
Usually, only people from rural areas understand this issue, because in the city or in new housing developments, this kind of dirt doesn’t usually occur or isn’t a constant problem.
The men and our boys are not keen on having to completely change clothes every time they come in from the yard.
So they only take off their boots/shoes, shake out their clothes, wash their hands in the utility room, and then come inside. When it’s quitting time, the laundry basket is also placed there, for example.
We don’t only go into the living room on holidays, just to be clear.
Usually, only people from rural areas understand this issue, because in the city or in new housing developments, this kind of dirt doesn’t usually occur or isn’t a constant problem.
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