ᐅ Request for feedback on various prefabricated house manufacturers

Tim2020 schrieb:

Of course, the price is somewhat higher than most. But we accepted that consciously. This was actually our second house project. The first one was cheap. The second was meant to be more comfortable to upscale. The price of the house was 770,000 euros. Plus land and additional costs. In total, 1,170,000 euros. So not the lower price range but not luxury either.

Wow, calling 1.2 million not luxury is quite bold 🤨 even the size of 240sqm (2,583 sq ft) is luxury.
Please don’t get me wrong, luxury is not meant negatively by me. If you can afford it (you seem to be older, since it’s your second house), that’s great. But by my definition, that is pure luxury 😉

bra-tak schrieb:

Wow, calling 1.2 million not luxury is quite bold 🤨 just the size of 240 m² (2,583 sq ft) alone is luxury.
Please don’t get me wrong, luxury is not a negative term for me. If you can afford it (you seem to be older since this is your second house) that’s great. But by my definition, that’s pure luxury;)

I come from a very poor extended family that fled from Poland (Upper Silesia, which belonged to Germany back then) to Germany during the war. So, personally, that is luxury to me as well. But if you objectively compare it to Mercedes models, it is simply not an S-Class. For them, the S-Class represents luxury, the E-Class is upper mid-range, the C-Class is mid-range, and the A-Class is compact.
Land and house prices in the Stuttgart suburbs are inflated, no longer normal. You don’t get a luxury house for one million here. That’s just how it is nowadays. But I also know that you can get more luxurious properties elsewhere for that price.

From that perspective, I would see the house as a well-equipped C-Class or maybe an E-Class in basic trim. Honestly, I would have preferred to build a smaller house myself, but unfortunately, that wasn’t possible in that development area.

Tim2020 schrieb:

I come from a very poor extended family that fled from Poland (Upper Silesia, which at the time belonged to Germany) to Germany during the world war. So for me personally, this is also luxury. But if you objectively compare it to Mercedes models, it simply isn’t an S-Class. For them, the S-Class is luxury, the E-Class is upper mid-range, the C-Class is mid-range, and the A-Class is compact class.
Land and house prices in the Stuttgart metropolitan area are exaggerated, no longer normal. You don’t get a luxury house here for 1 million. That’s just how it is now. But I also know that you can buy more luxurious properties elsewhere for that amount.

From that perspective, I would see the house as a well-equipped C-Class or an E-Class in basic trim. And frankly, I would have preferred to build a smaller house, but that was unfortunately not possible in this development area.

Oh, and yes. We are already older. I am 50 and my wife is 42.

Tim2020 schrieb:

To be honest, I would have preferred to build a smaller house, but unfortunately that wasn’t possible in this development area.

Now you’ve got me curious.

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11ant schrieb:

Now you’ve got me curious.

Most modern prefabricated houses have knee walls that allow you to stand upright in the rooms on the upper floor. Typically, these are between 1.40 m and 1.80 m (4 ft 7 in to 5 ft 11 in). In our building area, the knee wall was limited to a maximum of 35 cm (14 inches) by local building regulations in the development plan, which was established about 20 years ago. Because of this, the bedrooms on the upper floor (our bedroom and three kids’ rooms) had to be designed larger to be properly usable. Otherwise, half of the room would be taken up by sloped ceilings where standing upright isn’t possible. Since we wanted to provide nice rooms for our children and ourselves, we had to build the upper floor correspondingly larger. This also made the common rooms on the ground floor bigger, although that wasn’t actually necessary.

If the building regulations had allowed single-family houses with higher knee walls and/or a steeper roof pitch, we could have built the house smaller without sacrificing living quality. For the dining room, living room, and kitchen, smaller spaces would have been fine with me. But upstairs, we couldn’t reduce the size because of the knee wall, if you know what I mean. Otherwise, the kids’ rooms would have had sloped ceilings everywhere.

Tim2020 schrieb:

You couldn’t build any smaller at the top because of the knee wall, if you know what I mean.

So what did you end up building: a 35 cm (14 inch) knee wall with a low ceiling height at the edges, or did you combine the small knee wall with a dwarf wall?

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