Winterkind19 Sep 2016 09:29Good morning!
Last week we purchased our plot of land, and now the real work begins. 🙂) The floor plan is almost finished. We are still struggling with 2-3 issues.
One of them is the windows. We are building a semi-detached house. The neighboring house is already built and has a long, tall window on the entrance side facing the street (the kind you can't easily see through).
1. We are considering whether to do the same or choose a corner window to better utilize the morning sun. Is it even possible or advisable to have different window styles in a semi-detached house?
2. The second idea is to install a floor-to-ceiling window around the corner of the house. This would be in the kitchen, between the kitchen units facing the street and the kitchen island. It would bring in natural light and serve as a small "eye-catcher." However, we are concerned that pedestrians might be able to look inside. Would you advise against this, or do you have any alternatives? Friends mentioned yesterday a type of glass that prevents people from seeing inside from the outside, but still allows you to see out from the kitchen. I guess that kind of glass is quite expensive?
Last week we purchased our plot of land, and now the real work begins. 🙂) The floor plan is almost finished. We are still struggling with 2-3 issues.
One of them is the windows. We are building a semi-detached house. The neighboring house is already built and has a long, tall window on the entrance side facing the street (the kind you can't easily see through).
1. We are considering whether to do the same or choose a corner window to better utilize the morning sun. Is it even possible or advisable to have different window styles in a semi-detached house?
2. The second idea is to install a floor-to-ceiling window around the corner of the house. This would be in the kitchen, between the kitchen units facing the street and the kitchen island. It would bring in natural light and serve as a small "eye-catcher." However, we are concerned that pedestrians might be able to look inside. Would you advise against this, or do you have any alternatives? Friends mentioned yesterday a type of glass that prevents people from seeing inside from the outside, but still allows you to see out from the kitchen. I guess that kind of glass is quite expensive?
I don’t know, I would at least want a uniform look on the street-facing side. We have a semi-detached house here, where the left side has a smooth plaster finish and the right side has a thick textured render (like interior roughcast but much thicker, maybe with some insulating function, who knows), and it looks really bad and somehow gives off a negative impression of the neighborhood, as if they couldn’t come to an agreement.
Winterkind19 Sep 2016 13:24Hmm, you’re kind of right there. It’s a pity. Then we’ll adapt to the neighbor and still consider whether to install a regular small window or a floor-to-ceiling window on the side.
Elina schrieb:
somehow externally also demonstrates a bad neighborly relationship, as it seems they couldn’t come to an agreementVery often, the second halves are only built years after the first.
So it can’t really be avoided that if the first builder created a real eyesore, the result looks quite different 😉
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