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I've been thinking about house types, floor plans, and so on for weeks. I thought it might be helpful to visit a show home village. Simply to get ideas and inspiration, and to find out what we like and don’t like. We don’t want to build a display or prefab house; I just thought visiting could spark some ideas.
Now I’ve looked for show home villages in NRW, and there aren’t many. Is it worth visiting a place with about 20 houses? What benefit does it bring if we’re not specifically interested in the suppliers? Would that just be a waste of time, and would it be better to keep searching online for floor plans and eventually get some nice drawings done by an architect?
How did you gather information and plan your build?
Looking forward to your input!
I've been thinking about house types, floor plans, and so on for weeks. I thought it might be helpful to visit a show home village. Simply to get ideas and inspiration, and to find out what we like and don’t like. We don’t want to build a display or prefab house; I just thought visiting could spark some ideas.
Now I’ve looked for show home villages in NRW, and there aren’t many. Is it worth visiting a place with about 20 houses? What benefit does it bring if we’re not specifically interested in the suppliers? Would that just be a waste of time, and would it be better to keep searching online for floor plans and eventually get some nice drawings done by an architect?
How did you gather information and plan your build?
Looking forward to your input!
Hello,
We visited the same model home park several times (Villingen-Schwenningen) mainly to get a feel for the size of the rooms with furnishings and to gather some ideas. What really helped, however, was visiting houses built by our home provider, either by homeowners who are currently building or those who already live there.
Even though we have now moved in ourselves, we still like to visit model home parks from time to time just to smile a bit at what is said there and what actually becomes reality during construction.
Best regards
We visited the same model home park several times (Villingen-Schwenningen) mainly to get a feel for the size of the rooms with furnishings and to gather some ideas. What really helped, however, was visiting houses built by our home provider, either by homeowners who are currently building or those who already live there.
Even though we have now moved in ourselves, we still like to visit model home parks from time to time just to smile a bit at what is said there and what actually becomes reality during construction.
Best regards
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DerBjoern28 Feb 2014 12:40I also visited the old park in Wuppertal. I actually found it quite nice as a place to get some ideas. What wasn’t so great, however, was the behavior of one exhibitor. At the time, I found the house they displayed quite interesting and requested some information. After doing some research, this company was no longer of interest to us. I informed the salesperson about our lack of interest. Despite this, the company passed on our address details to financial service providers and contractors, among others. Even two years later, we still receive calls and advertisements from them, which can be quite annoying...
Bauexperte schrieb:
... because the purpose of this exercise is to quickly excite a potential customer about your own offer. I agree with that. We visited two show homes and were quite impressed by the conversations in the houses from H...a. This provider became our favorite until the regional sales representative came to see us. If he had made some effort, we would have become customers. Instead, we have now found a construction company that individually adapts to our ideas.
You should also be careful not to sign anything there. I know—one would NEVER do that, but suddenly, it happened anyway 🙁.
In general, I agree with the statements that you can get ideas and a feel for the rooms. For example, we were impressed by a house with a roof dormer after looking at the catalog. But when we saw the house, we knew that the dormer was just wasted money—not very usable (it was divided by a wall into two rooms) and only provided minimal additional space.
We also saw how big a room with knee walls actually is (or rather, how small with, for example, 60cm (24 inches) or 80cm (31 inches) knee walls). For us, it was clear that anything less than 1.30m (51 inches) knee walls wouldn’t work—so now we have chosen the townhouse or townhouse with roof variant.
In short—walk through, look around, and gather ideas and impressions. It will be difficult to assess what you see with a clear head, but it can be helpful. Just remember—there are often very well-trained salespeople sitting there who know how to make your mouth water.
We did not visit the exhibition to be persuaded by commission-driven salespeople promoting their building systems. We were only there to get inspiration regarding room layouts, window positioning and sizing, room dimensions, and more. For this purpose, I find such exhibitions very useful. Tip: just mention that you have already built your house and contracted all trades. Even the most persistent salespeople will leave you alone.
If you are looking for independent and objective information about wall constructions, you will certainly not find it at a prefab house exhibition.
If you are looking for independent and objective information about wall constructions, you will certainly not find it at a prefab house exhibition.
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Bauexperte28 Feb 2014 13:52Hello,
- please don’t generalize all sellers like that 🙁
Regards, Bauexperte
One00 schrieb:??
.... to protect us from commission-hungry sellers
- please don’t generalize all sellers like that 🙁
Regards, Bauexperte
f-pNo schrieb:
You should also be careful not to sign anything there. I know – you would NEVER do that, but suddenly, it’s happened anyway 🙁.We signed at the model home park. But only after several long discussions with the salesperson. We went there multiple times, and if you have an appointment with one of the salespeople, you don’t have to pay the entrance fee anymore.
I can also confirm the partly lacking interest from the salespeople. According to my online research, B**n-Z***er looked very good to me. They even have two houses in Poing. Unfortunately, in one house there was no salesperson to be found, and in the other, they were sitting together nicely having coffee and chatting (no, they weren’t customers). After we stayed near them for about 15 minutes, none of the salespeople thought it necessary to approach us.
Sorry – they get potential buyers served to them on a silver platter. It’s not too much to ask to simply check if someone needs help, right? 😡
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