ᐅ Pay attention to small details during the planning stage, such as towel warmers and similar features.

blaupuma schrieb:
Mycraft, doesn’t that cause terrible glare?

From what I’ve seen so far, not really. The image comes from some construction blog. I can only speak from my neighbors’ experience—they have the opposite, with spotlights in the eaves that shine upwards, and no, they don’t cause glare either.

Fuchur schrieb:
As a neighbor, I would be grateful; it’s neither a castle nor a museum...

Besides, I imagine it could be unpleasant for your own view—well, you can always close the blinds...

Hmm, why? What exactly is unpleasant about the view?

Here is my list from the other thread, slightly adjusted:

- Plot located within the city
- Bay window for more space (even if the architects now shake their heads)
- Large glazed area facing south
- Solar thermal system
- Triple glazing P4A and RC2-rated windows
- Walk-in shower on the upper floor
- Corner bathtub
- Building management system with almost everything included
- Electric aluminum roller shutters on all windows, including several central and group control switches
- Contacts on all windows and the front door
- Motorized lock
- Central ventilation system with demand-based control
- Hardwood flooring throughout the house (except bathrooms and similar areas, which are tiled)
- Large double-leaf door from the hallway to the living room
- Air conditioning on the upper floor
- At least one double power outlet in every corner, a bit more than 100 in the entire house, including outlets at all windows, but explicitly NOT in the window reveals
- LAN/SAT connections in every room, including bathrooms
- Large terrace
- Infrared fixtures
- Video surveillance and alarm system
- Displays for home automation in the hallway and above the bed in the bedroom
- Several 3x16A power connections in the garden/carport, etc.
- Electric towel heater in the main bathroom
- Kitchen garbage disposal unit
- NEST thermostat
- Outlets with child protection covers

Hello Mycraft,

With such a long list, I wonder if you would actually want or be able to pay for all of that? Or is this more of a nice-to-have?

Don’t you have any patio doors facing south?

You have to explicitly opt out of those, right?
I thought that was standard.

Well, whether these are minor details or not remains to be seen.

I mentioned that it’s basically the list from the other thread, just slightly modified. These are all the extras added on top of the base house price, and they all contribute to a better quality of life, which was the original question from the OP.

@blaupuma
“Standard” is a broad and undefined term—similar to “turnkey.”

What one general contractor calls a “basic standard” is considered “upmarket” by another. A third might have no real “standard” at all but simply build to meet the energy-saving regulations. In such cases, it might be implied, for example, that triple glazing is standard, but when you see the energy demand calculation, you realize the house wouldn’t meet the required values without it.

Just as an example...

But I have revised that passage.

By the way, I have neighbors who have just a single patio door along 10m (33 feet) on the south side. That’s all that was included in their standard.

Mycraft schrieb:
- Bay window and therefore more space (even if the architects are shaking their heads)

Do you mean a dormer in the attic or what exactly do you mean by more space from that?

Mycraft schrieb:
- Food waste disposer

Grinding increases the surface area in terms of decomposition odors – I can’t really imagine tomato clusters or similar waste being so bulky that, overall, it would be an advantage to grind all that stuff (?)

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