ᐅ Number and Placement of Exterior Lights for a Square House Approximately 9.40m x 9.40m
Created on: 4 Aug 2021 18:34
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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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hampshire19 Nov 2021 20:52haydee schrieb:
Most houses in the past were plain, very basic, and extremely small.Yes, they were, and at the same time, houses of wealthy people often featured truly stunning details.B
Bertram10019 Nov 2021 21:04haydee schrieb:
Most houses in the past were plain, very simple, and extremely smallI come from the northern Ruhr area or southern Westphalia, where there are many workers’ houses that are small and appear plain at first glance. But when you look more closely, you realize that this appearance is deceiving. They are designed to be practical and appeal through good proportions. For today’s large sectional sofas (:oops 🙂 they are indeed too small. I really appreciate these houses and would never think of describing them as plain.
Bertram100 schrieb:
For today's L-shaped sofa "landscapes" 🙂oops 🙂 they are actually too small.The corner sofa is the most essential tool of interior design self-criticism 🙂https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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Smialbuddler19 Nov 2021 22:56Bertram100 schrieb:
I come from the northern Ruhr area or southern Westphalia, where there are many worker’s houses that are small and seemingly plain. But if you look closely, you realize appearances can be deceiving.Even our 1960s East German house, which was definitely built inexpensively as a self-build and not for wealthy people, features very thoughtful and elaborate details in corners where you wouldn’t expect them. They simply valued that, despite everything.
Smialbuddler schrieb:
Our 1960s East German house, which definitely wasn’t built for wealthy people but was self-built and affordable,What type was it: an EW58?Smialbuddler schrieb:
has very detailed and carefully crafted features in corners where you wouldn’t expect them.World-class instead of West-class – in terms of construction technology, back then the ‘Tätära’ was ahead of the economically challenged brothers and sisters.https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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Bertram100 schrieb:
would never think of describing them as plain. However, we are talking about exterior lights here, and from the outside view—as someone living in the northern Ruhr area—I would say that many of the houses you described are indeed quite plain. This starts with the typical small ventilation openings for basements, the weathered gray roughcast plaster, and extends to the frequently lichen-covered and similarly weathered concrete roof tiles. Of course, there are more and more fully renovated examples that clearly differ from this description, and there are also variations with bay windows, dormers, mansard roofs, and so on, but otherwise I often find the term “plain” appropriate without intending to disparage these houses in any way.