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New Home Design 101 - The Very Beginning - Worksheet

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I have now developed a worksheet that follows the 3 articles in the series “New Home Design 101 - The Very Beginning”.  This worksheet helps you document the initial stage of developing the program for your new home.   It is available in a printer friendly PDF format here.

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Printable versions of the Home Design 101 articles are online now

I have reformatted the Home Design 101 posts into an article in PDF format for easy printing.  These articles are available HERE‘

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Home Design 101 - The Very Beginning - Part 3

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 Successfully designing a home requires a synthesis of :

personal vision, (read this first)
needs and desires, and  (read this second)
constraints.

Everything you do while designing your home involves integrating, balancing and compromising among these three parameters.
Constraints
There are two fundamental constraints on the design of a home: budget [...]

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Home Design 101 - The Very Beginning - Part 2

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 Successfully designing a home requires a synthesis of :
 
 

personal vision,      (read this first)
needs and desires, and
constraints.

Everything you do while designing your home involves integrating, balancing and compromising among these three parameters.
 
Needs & Desires
 This is a really big topic and in future articles we’ll have more to say about [...]

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Home Design 101 - The Very Beginning - Part 1

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 Successfully designing a home requires a synthesis of :
 

personal vision,
needs and desires, and
constraints. 

Everything you do while designing your home involves integrating, balancing and compromising among these three parameters.
Personal Vision
This is your “big idea”.  It can be aesthetic, emotional and general.  For example, I recently had a client whose vision was “To [...]

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