Oh C'mon V Richards...every epoch has its treasures. B4 you make a mad run for it stop a while and consider the period and the reasons for the style...it can be extremely enlightening....unless its not the period you want to escape from but from some of the opinions. I spent many years of my youth outside of Australia living surrounded by old ruins in Europe. I forgot what it was like here. When finally I returned to Australia and found myself living in some of the 60s and 70s places..I found much to admire and wonder about. I may not have fallen in love with much of it but there was a certain mistique and a feel that I can still conjure when talking about certain places. Not saying that it was all romantic and pleasant but it conveyed something of the era and the kind of Aussie from those days.

I shared with my sister who was nearly six years older than I. It was a great insight into the life of someone so much older, and my sister was weird and wild and I used to marvel at her ability to be that very grown up person, who could be tolerant of my inexperienced naivety and immaturity. She never made me feel weaker, duller or immature and she was always especially patient with me. I think that I learnt compassion from her because I could see how, unlike my elder brother, who took advantage of my immaturity and smaller stature she allowed me just to be me at my own pace. It was a great way to learn tolerance.

Who knew??! I certainly didn't. I'd give it a try as an alternative to more expensive options.

Thank you Oklouise for sharing your thoughts and ideas! To answer your questions, I'll start with the location - the building will be built in Central Europe (sun at noon is in the south - see the suncalc results for winter and summer time below), and this led our architect to the shape of the buidling - he designed it in this way in order to provide us with as much as possible sun in the winter time and to provide us with as much privacy as possible so we don't see our neighbours' houses from inside. (sun today, 13th January - north is up) `(sun on 23rd July - north is up) The architect created many views, you can have when you enter and move around the house (see the attached below picture). When you enter the house at the end of the corridor you can see a nice garden, then you walk in and in front of you, at the end of the sitting room you can see again a piece of garden. Then when you're at the sofa you can see the garden again. When you're at the table, eating you can again see the garden, and finally when being in the kitchen you can see a driveway to the garage. Of course, all assuming that we will have a nice landscape architecture. Your guess was right - room no.10 is the laudry, and no.1 is the entrance hall where ceiling will be high, and you will be able to see kind of a bridge leading to the room above the garage. Nearly same idea is the sitting room - the ceiling will be high and there'll entresol where the fireplace is.