ᐅ Software recommendation for home design: land, house, and rooms
Created on: 16 Aug 2013 12:44
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f-pNo
Hello everyone,
since our planned house—despite downsizing and additional agreed-upon self-performed work—is still becoming significantly more expensive than expected, we have to hit the brakes and start over from scratch.
I’m quite frustrated at the moment because we had actually set clear financial limits. Since May, we’ve been trying various cost-saving measures, which have only yielded mixed results. We could still afford it, but we would exceed our set budget limits and use up our “backup potential.”
Yesterday, we made the painful decision to abandon everything.
So—dear community—thanks for being a sounding board .
Reset point—fresh start. Now we need to explore new options.
We will probably engage the building consultant again here (if they are still willing to cooperate after months), but we also want to put our own brains to work and draft different versions ourselves.
Can you recommend any free software for this purpose?
It would be useful if we could input the property’s conditions and of course draw/plan our house. If the program also shows the area in square meters (square feet) of each room, that would be almost perfect.
Thanks for your feedback.
f-pNo
since our planned house—despite downsizing and additional agreed-upon self-performed work—is still becoming significantly more expensive than expected, we have to hit the brakes and start over from scratch.
I’m quite frustrated at the moment because we had actually set clear financial limits. Since May, we’ve been trying various cost-saving measures, which have only yielded mixed results. We could still afford it, but we would exceed our set budget limits and use up our “backup potential.”
Yesterday, we made the painful decision to abandon everything.
So—dear community—thanks for being a sounding board .
Reset point—fresh start. Now we need to explore new options.
We will probably engage the building consultant again here (if they are still willing to cooperate after months), but we also want to put our own brains to work and draft different versions ourselves.
Can you recommend any free software for this purpose?
It would be useful if we could input the property’s conditions and of course draw/plan our house. If the program also shows the area in square meters (square feet) of each room, that would be almost perfect.
Thanks for your feedback.
f-pNo
Shadowblues schrieb:
Hello, please calculate where you would end up with your "old building"—specifically, the cost per cubic meter of enclosed space. I did the calculation and came to 410 euros per cubic meter. The volume includes the planned double garage in the basement (of course, without any elaborate details and only with ceiling insulation).
An energy consultant once told me that 400 euros per cubic meter is already quite a high-end finish. I can't really judge that—especially since you mention a guideline of 350 to 500 euros (and up to 500 does leave some room).
I think we won’t have a simple, but definitely not a very high-end finish either (in my opinion, very high-end would be like a colleague who spent 30,000 euros on bathroom fixtures—while we are budgeting around 8,000 euros for both the bathroom and guest toilet).
I will definitely take a closer look—we’ve already considered a few alternatives—and now we want to refine things a bit more before starting the detailed planning phase again. After the disappointment, the fighting spirit is back.