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
RobsonMKK schrieb:
Well, I have a 5-year warranty on my windows, so what now? A best before date isn’t an expiration date, but after that, no one really wants to guarantee the original condition of their stuff anymore.
Bieber0815 schrieb:
Have we already mentioned spots on the eaves? Does that count as late Roman decadence? “Neo-late Roman”?
Musketier schrieb:
The young guys line up at the house when the daughter is doing her homework in a short skirt. As long as the young guys aren’t too spotty and hunched, the daughter does her homework thoroughly. Educationally valuable windows, so to speak.
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Floor-to-ceiling windows: I’m a fan of as many as possible, as they always make the space feel airier and more modern, both inside and out, even if you place something in front of them. Upstairs, having a desk in front of them works great too, offering a fantastic view. Small children enjoy it even more, as it’s a huge added value for them.
Recessed lights in the eaves box, for example, are not my preference because I don’t like the horizontal cladding of the eaves box at all. With “urban villas” that have a shallow roof pitch, this is acceptable, but for houses with a traditional pitched roof, angled cladding looks clearly airier and more attractive (it’s a bit more expensive, but the difference is manageable).
Recessed lights in the eaves box, for example, are not my preference because I don’t like the horizontal cladding of the eaves box at all. With “urban villas” that have a shallow roof pitch, this is acceptable, but for houses with a traditional pitched roof, angled cladding looks clearly airier and more attractive (it’s a bit more expensive, but the difference is manageable).
11ant schrieb:
A best-before date is not an expiration date, but after that, no one really guarantees the consistency of their product as it was at delivery. Can you actually show windows that look that bad after 3 years?
When I drive/walk through the partly older residential areas here, nothing looks that bad.
*Sigh*… You praise the relaxed thread, and now this? [emoji53]
Well: Spotlights that illuminate the house – I really like those [emoji106], and of course, we have them too [emoji2].
Spotlights in the roof overhang have been there for a long time; I don’t find those worth mentioning.
Just read… towel radiators are also very common in show homes.
We had one in our old house: hardly used, and it was difficult to get folded towels between the bars.
Our builder wouldn’t have installed one as standard anyway due to our underfloor heating, so we didn’t get one either [emoji2].
Well: Spotlights that illuminate the house – I really like those [emoji106], and of course, we have them too [emoji2].
Spotlights in the roof overhang have been there for a long time; I don’t find those worth mentioning.
Just read… towel radiators are also very common in show homes.
We had one in our old house: hardly used, and it was difficult to get folded towels between the bars.
Our builder wouldn’t have installed one as standard anyway due to our underfloor heating, so we didn’t get one either [emoji2].
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