ᐅ What features did you include in your house, and what did you decide to leave out?
Created on: 30 Jan 2015 14:18
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willWohnen
Hello,
When planning and building a house, you focus on the essentials and the budget. Some wishes get dropped along the way. But certain small luxuries or nice features are important to you, even if they are not strictly necessary, and you end up including them anyway.
For us, a heated conservatory was an unattainable dream. However, we treated ourselves to tiled, walk-in showers, even though they take up more space.
I would love to hear what you have given up and what you managed to include.
Best regards
When planning and building a house, you focus on the essentials and the budget. Some wishes get dropped along the way. But certain small luxuries or nice features are important to you, even if they are not strictly necessary, and you end up including them anyway.
For us, a heated conservatory was an unattainable dream. However, we treated ourselves to tiled, walk-in showers, even though they take up more space.
I would love to hear what you have given up and what you managed to include.
Best regards
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Deliverer30 Jun 2017 10:03We didn’t include many fancy features inside the house. But in the kitchen, we treated ourselves to a few extras that bring us daily joy:
An extra-wide oven with a 90cm (35 inch) built-in size and a baking tray width of 62cm (24 inches). Those additional 15 centimeters (6 inches) had been a dream of mine for a long time. Finally, two casserole dishes with lasagna. Finally, two Christmas geese. Finally, two pizzas side by side. Finally, comfortably basting six pork knuckles... By the way, each level has a pull-out rail system. Otherwise, handling the rather heavy baking trays would be difficult.
And last but not least, an additional 20 by 20cm (8 by 8 inches) sink right next to the cooktop. Super useful for:
- Draining pasta
- Washing hands (I often handle raw meat and such...)
- Draining food without cluttering up the main sink
- Filling and refilling pots with water. Thanks to the pull-out faucet with start-stop function, this can be done single-handedly without having to cross the kitchen.
- Quickly and neatly cleaning up any spills or boil-overs in the flush-mounted sink.
In short: I never imagined that a small sink could bring so much joy!
An extra-wide oven with a 90cm (35 inch) built-in size and a baking tray width of 62cm (24 inches). Those additional 15 centimeters (6 inches) had been a dream of mine for a long time. Finally, two casserole dishes with lasagna. Finally, two Christmas geese. Finally, two pizzas side by side. Finally, comfortably basting six pork knuckles... By the way, each level has a pull-out rail system. Otherwise, handling the rather heavy baking trays would be difficult.
And last but not least, an additional 20 by 20cm (8 by 8 inches) sink right next to the cooktop. Super useful for:
- Draining pasta
- Washing hands (I often handle raw meat and such...)
- Draining food without cluttering up the main sink
- Filling and refilling pots with water. Thanks to the pull-out faucet with start-stop function, this can be done single-handedly without having to cross the kitchen.
- Quickly and neatly cleaning up any spills or boil-overs in the flush-mounted sink.
In short: I never imagined that a small sink could bring so much joy!
Alex85 schrieb:
Great reviews here
What device do you have there?
There are apparently recirculating hoods in the higher price range that deliver what they promise. But such a hood quickly costs $2,000.Yes, I know, I’ve looked into it too, but there’s no way my husband would allow me to buy such an expensive hood; that would be another third of the total cost of our kitchen.
Besides, we only got our hood new two years ago, so it would be a “waste” to get rid of it so soon.
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Peanuts7430 Jun 2017 11:58If it involves less effort (financially and in terms of mess, etc.), installing a new hood makes more sense than core drilling or any drilling through the thermal envelope, provided the result is the same. If you still have a chimney, the effort for exhaust air will be even greater. So, think carefully and calculate first!
And then the expensive hood doesn’t deliver the desired result, and I still have to make a core drill afterwards... that means double costs. Just because the hood was expensive doesn’t mean I will be satisfied with the outcome.
If I had known beforehand that the recirculation hood wouldn’t work, I would have opted for a core drilling from the start, even though it’s more complex. But I always had an exhaust hood before and don’t know anyone with a recirculation system, so I couldn’t see it in advance and naively assumed it would do the job. A stupid mistake on my part, but unfortunately it can’t be undone—only corrected as best as possible. oops:
We would get a cost estimate first anyway before making a final decision. But probably not until next year, since the timing is too tight this year and we would rather have it done during the summer months, if at all.
We don’t have a fireplace and definitely don’t want one again. So that’s not an issue, and because of the airtight building envelope, there are special wall boxes that are also qualified for blower door tests.
Regarding dirt, we’d have to repaint anyway because the ceiling and the wall above the opening of the recirculation hood are already really dirty. We would have to remove the upper cabinets for that anyway, so we’d tackle everything at once while we’re at it.
If I had known beforehand that the recirculation hood wouldn’t work, I would have opted for a core drilling from the start, even though it’s more complex. But I always had an exhaust hood before and don’t know anyone with a recirculation system, so I couldn’t see it in advance and naively assumed it would do the job. A stupid mistake on my part, but unfortunately it can’t be undone—only corrected as best as possible. oops:
We would get a cost estimate first anyway before making a final decision. But probably not until next year, since the timing is too tight this year and we would rather have it done during the summer months, if at all.
We don’t have a fireplace and definitely don’t want one again. So that’s not an issue, and because of the airtight building envelope, there are special wall boxes that are also qualified for blower door tests.
Regarding dirt, we’d have to repaint anyway because the ceiling and the wall above the opening of the recirculation hood are already really dirty. We would have to remove the upper cabinets for that anyway, so we’d tackle everything at once while we’re at it.
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Peanuts7430 Jun 2017 12:41For us, only an exhaust system was an option. However, there are supposed to be really good recirculation hoods available—just try searching for them here or maybe see one in person or find some tests...
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