Completely agree about the missed opportunities with the windows! Unfortunately, completely redoing the plan is a bit outside our scope. When we moved in, we thought it was Ingrid Wallberg who designed it, because a realtor had claimed that in an old ad, but I managed to decipher the signature on the drawings to Gotthard Gillermo!
The simplest thing is to (re)open the blocked door niche; then you won't even need to submit a construction notification. Be a bit cautious though and check if the opening is really load-bearing, and note if the arch "wants" to settle a bit when you tear it down (temporarily support it in that case). The blocking may have become a bit "unintentionally load-bearing" over time, so there might be cracks in the plaster when the arch loses any potential support, but the wall won't collapseA Andreaseas said:
.But it's certainly possible to create an opening closer to the façade, with an associated structural engineer, load distribution, and construction notification according to my post #9.
Haha, no, I haven't imagined that eitherA Andreaseas said:
But that kind of "experience"-reasoning and light and sight lines felt relevant anyway, since you're planning to create various openings in the apartment. And this was a good example of thinking "spatially" more than "visually." There are more fundamental qualities in good architecture than just looking nice.
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There you go! It is likely the taste of the respective client that decided it. But in line with the above: it is still just an appearance. Without having seen his floor plans, we don't know at all if this house is "better."A Andreaseas said: