Hello everyone,
My wife, my daughter, and I are looking to build our own home (single-family house). We might have a second child in the future. The house will be built in the postal code area 77XXX. Since I have a very time-consuming job and I’m not very skilled with DIY work, I want to have the whole project delivered as move-in ready as possible, without too much coordination effort. What is the best way to achieve this?
Our requirements:
- 5 rooms with two bathrooms that have showers (children’s bathroom)
- This summer showed me that I don’t want to build a house without cooling. I’m open regarding the cooling concept, but I have heard good things about heat pumps including a cooling function plus a photovoltaic system. What are sensible options? Underfloor heating / wall heating / ceiling cooling?
- A complicated/individual ground floor layout because I want to integrate a home cinema (my hobby) into the living room. Cooperation with the home cinema installer will also be necessary. If anyone has experience with how to manage this, I would appreciate any advice.
- Lighting and roller shutters should be smart. Here the question arises whether to go for retrofit solutions (Philips Hue) or a bus system like KNX combined with home automation such as RTI or Control4?
- No specific requirements regarding the exterior design. I would also consider a mono-pitched roof to install a full photovoltaic system facing south and keep the rest of the building simple, square, and practical.
- Avoid sloped ceilings upstairs, which also speaks in favor of a mono-pitched or hipped roof (urban villa style).
How should all this be financed?
He: net income 5,500 € (tendency rising)
She: net income 800 € (we don’t count on this, since a second child might be coming)
Equity: 30,000 € saved within one year. Within the next few years, there might also be an inheritance of 250,000 €. I would consider buying a suitable plot now even without much equity and use the remaining money/inheritance for additional loan repayments. What do you think about that?
Best regards!
My wife, my daughter, and I are looking to build our own home (single-family house). We might have a second child in the future. The house will be built in the postal code area 77XXX. Since I have a very time-consuming job and I’m not very skilled with DIY work, I want to have the whole project delivered as move-in ready as possible, without too much coordination effort. What is the best way to achieve this?
Our requirements:
- 5 rooms with two bathrooms that have showers (children’s bathroom)
- This summer showed me that I don’t want to build a house without cooling. I’m open regarding the cooling concept, but I have heard good things about heat pumps including a cooling function plus a photovoltaic system. What are sensible options? Underfloor heating / wall heating / ceiling cooling?
- A complicated/individual ground floor layout because I want to integrate a home cinema (my hobby) into the living room. Cooperation with the home cinema installer will also be necessary. If anyone has experience with how to manage this, I would appreciate any advice.
- Lighting and roller shutters should be smart. Here the question arises whether to go for retrofit solutions (Philips Hue) or a bus system like KNX combined with home automation such as RTI or Control4?
- No specific requirements regarding the exterior design. I would also consider a mono-pitched roof to install a full photovoltaic system facing south and keep the rest of the building simple, square, and practical.
- Avoid sloped ceilings upstairs, which also speaks in favor of a mono-pitched or hipped roof (urban villa style).
How should all this be financed?
He: net income 5,500 € (tendency rising)
She: net income 800 € (we don’t count on this, since a second child might be coming)
Equity: 30,000 € saved within one year. Within the next few years, there might also be an inheritance of 250,000 €. I would consider buying a suitable plot now even without much equity and use the remaining money/inheritance for additional loan repayments. What do you think about that?
Best regards!
C
chand198612 Sep 2018 11:00The overlap between Lindenstraße and high-quality American TV series is exactly as big as that between strawberry jam and an excavator.
What the farmer doesn’t know...
What the farmer doesn’t know...
*laughs*
But isn’t it boring to keep extending a story all the time? I want to be done at some point. I already get fidgety with long movies. I don’t like going to the cinema because if I get bored, I can’t just get up and leave.
I used to watch Sex and the City occasionally while channel surfing. It was okay, but I never understood the hype...
I sometimes watch House with my boyfriend; the witty remarks are fine, but otherwise it all feels repetitive.
I’m probably the wrong audience for this. Once, the whole neighborhood and I went to see a Bond film. You know, the part at the beginning where he falls from some bridge into a river in Turkey and is rescued by a sexy Turkish woman in a bikini (totally realistic that such a woman would be dressed like that, wandering the remote Turkish countryside and nursing injured men pulled from the river!) through some kind of sexual healing.
At that point, my willingness to suspend disbelief was already gone and I thought, “There’s no way you survive this!!!”
Neighborhood: “Come on, it’s a BOND movie!!!”
… then the theme song and opening credits came on …
At the end, Judi Dench dies. Not great either.
And I couldn’t go to the fridge to get enough wine to dull my mind so that the little voice in my ear wouldn’t keep whispering, “That can’t work, no one survives this, nonsense, you should look it up online, it’s definitely not true,” but just be quiet (which wouldn’t be good for my liver either in the long run).
I haven’t been to the cinema since.
But isn’t it boring to keep extending a story all the time? I want to be done at some point. I already get fidgety with long movies. I don’t like going to the cinema because if I get bored, I can’t just get up and leave.
I used to watch Sex and the City occasionally while channel surfing. It was okay, but I never understood the hype...
I sometimes watch House with my boyfriend; the witty remarks are fine, but otherwise it all feels repetitive.
I’m probably the wrong audience for this. Once, the whole neighborhood and I went to see a Bond film. You know, the part at the beginning where he falls from some bridge into a river in Turkey and is rescued by a sexy Turkish woman in a bikini (totally realistic that such a woman would be dressed like that, wandering the remote Turkish countryside and nursing injured men pulled from the river!) through some kind of sexual healing.
At that point, my willingness to suspend disbelief was already gone and I thought, “There’s no way you survive this!!!”
Neighborhood: “Come on, it’s a BOND movie!!!”
… then the theme song and opening credits came on …
At the end, Judi Dench dies. Not great either.
And I couldn’t go to the fridge to get enough wine to dull my mind so that the little voice in my ear wouldn’t keep whispering, “That can’t work, no one survives this, nonsense, you should look it up online, it’s definitely not true,” but just be quiet (which wouldn’t be good for my liver either in the long run).
I haven’t been to the cinema since.
S
Steffen8012 Sep 2018 14:41chand1986 schrieb:
The overlap between Lindenstraße and the high-quality American series is exactly as big as that between strawberry jam and an excavator.
What the farmer doesn’t know... I couldn’t have said it better myself!!!! Thumbs up! GZSZ and GoT or Breaking Bad… there is a whole universe in between. I once watched an episode of GZSZ and then looked up what the “actors” earn… I thought they must all be millionaires to voluntarily make such fools of themselves. Nope. 30,000 to 60,000 annual gross (depending on how long they’ve been on the show). I couldn’t stop laughing… I’d rather clean toilets for less money than make a fool of myself like that. But GZSZ fits well with the dumb German “Michel” crowd.