ᐅ Number and Placement of Exterior Lights for a Square House Approximately 9.40m x 9.40m
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Our selection appointment is approaching, so I would like to ask for some feedback. I know it’s a fairly standard, plain house, but it suits us well.
Attached you will find the house elevations from the four cardinal directions. Could you please advise where and how many exterior lights you would install on the outer walls? I’m unsure whether one or two exterior lights on a 9.40m (31 feet) wall might be too few. The house is 9.20m (30 feet) high including the roof. Without the roof, meaning the wall height, it is 6.51m (21 feet). At a later stage, we might add shutters, if that is relevant for the placement of the exterior lights.
The blue dots mark my initial suggested mounting points. On the east and west sides, I have initially planned two exterior lights each, and on the south and north sides, one each. Our main terrace will be on the west side. On the other three sides, there will only be small seating areas, more like garden spots than terraces.
There will also be various other lighting fixtures in the garden among the plants, but their exact locations will be decided during the landscaping planning. We might also add solar-powered gutter lights to the rain gutters, but that would be at a later time.
Attached you will find the house elevations from the four cardinal directions. Could you please advise where and how many exterior lights you would install on the outer walls? I’m unsure whether one or two exterior lights on a 9.40m (31 feet) wall might be too few. The house is 9.20m (30 feet) high including the roof. Without the roof, meaning the wall height, it is 6.51m (21 feet). At a later stage, we might add shutters, if that is relevant for the placement of the exterior lights.
The blue dots mark my initial suggested mounting points. On the east and west sides, I have initially planned two exterior lights each, and on the south and north sides, one each. Our main terrace will be on the west side. On the other three sides, there will only be small seating areas, more like garden spots than terraces.
There will also be various other lighting fixtures in the garden among the plants, but their exact locations will be decided during the landscaping planning. We might also add solar-powered gutter lights to the rain gutters, but that would be at a later time.
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Georgian201920 Nov 2021 09:54haydee schrieb:
Most houses in the past were plain, very simple, and extremely small.That’s not entirely true! Even the simplest farmhouses or barns featured masonry decorative elements in the roof cornices and above windows and doors, or plastered window frames and surrounds... even the residential houses from the 1950s. Just look at the industrial architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries! You could call them industrial palaces. Today, plain halls and office buildings are constructed... affordable and practical (like everything else). No matter how unattractive these industrial buildings appear within their surroundings.H
hampshire20 Nov 2021 10:55Anyone who renovates a simple old house with history in a way that reveals both its original concept and heritage will create a special charm. Whether it is a typical half-timbered house here in the Bergisches Land region, a simple brick house from the Lower Rhine area, or a working-class house in Lübeck, there is always history behind the seemingly plain and dreary appearance. Those who look closely will recognize and feel some of it in most old houses. Will this still be the case in the future with our plastered, square-meter-price-optimized techno-blocks? Many modern architectural trends are much more short-lived than a “simple old house.” Just think of the concrete monstrosities—residential and shopping blocks—from the 1970s.
The houses in our area were plain and small. People had to struggle just to get enough to eat. It was a poor neighborhood.
Even if the houses had decorative elements, it is important to keep in mind who actually lived there. Often, there were more people than the typical family with two children, and sometimes a small home-based business was operated within the house.
Very few could afford a fancy villa. Although these were first-time occupancies, many were poor workers. Families often shared a single room, sometimes even renting out a bed or just a sleeping space to ensure the houses were kept dry and livable.
Times were different back then. There were no social benefits, wages were very low, and working conditions were poor. Labor was cheap.
Even if the houses had decorative elements, it is important to keep in mind who actually lived there. Often, there were more people than the typical family with two children, and sometimes a small home-based business was operated within the house.
Very few could afford a fancy villa. Although these were first-time occupancies, many were poor workers. Families often shared a single room, sometimes even renting out a bed or just a sleeping space to ensure the houses were kept dry and livable.
Times were different back then. There were no social benefits, wages were very low, and working conditions were poor. Labor was cheap.
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Georgian201920 Nov 2021 13:13haydee schrieb:
Our houses were plain and small. People had to struggle just to have enough to eat. It was a poor area. Even when the houses had decorations, one should keep in mind who lived there. A few more people than the typical family with two children, and often a secondary job was carried out somewhere in the house.
Very few could afford a fancy villa. Although the houses were newly occupied, they were often inhabited by poor workers. A family might live in one room, sometimes with an additional rented bed or even just a sleeping space so that the houses were kept dry and lived in.
Things were different back then. No social benefits, very low wages, and poor working conditions meant labor was cheap. But the poverty of the residents was often not reflected in the architecture. A prime example is the late 19th-century and Art Nouveau buildings in working-class districts of the cities. All tenement buildings had richly designed facades on the front buildings (even if these were catalog designs at the time), and apartments on the first two floors featured elaborate ceiling and wall decorations (in some buildings, all floors had decorative plasterwork on the ceilings). Of course, there were also modest small farm cottages or factory settlements. But in general, value was placed on “attractive” architecture, whether villa or tenement building. Today, everything is built ugly, whether villa or “tenement”—square, functional, and practical.
Georgian2019 schrieb:
All tenement buildings had elaborately designed facades on the front houses (even back then, mostly from catalogues)Time for a quote from Adenauer: "You know more about that than I do" 🙂https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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