I don’t have a piece of land and I’m not ready to build, but I have been dreaming of designing a home for years. Can I hire an architect to help me design a home for my future use? if so, what is the cost of the designing process?
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Architectural plans generally go through 3 principle [...]
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This the fifth and final in a new series of articles intended to help you flesh out and add detail to the work you did while reading the earlier articles entitled “New Home Design 101 - The Very Beginning“. When you are finished with these new articles you will [...]
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This the fourth in a new series of articles intended to help you flesh out and add detail to the work you did while reading the earlier articles entitled “New Home Design 101 - The Very Beginning“. When you are finished with these new articles you will have a [...]
Learning by example sometimes requires looking at bad examples. According to the builder, Green Homes, this house won 2nd place in the 2006 Tulsa Parade of Homes. It must have done so in spite of the entry. It is a small, dark cramped space that cannot comfortably fit a small goup of adults entering or [...]
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This the third in a new series of articles intended to help you flesh out and add detail to the work you did while reading the earlier articles entitled “New Home Design 101 - The Very Beginning“. When you are finished with these new articles you will have a [...]
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This the secondin a new series of articles intended to help you flesh out and add detail to the work you did while reading the earlier articles entitled “New Home Design 101 - The Very Beginning“. When you are finished with these new articles you will have a detailed [...]
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This the first in a new series of articles intended to help you flesh out and add detail to the work you did while reading the earlier articles entitled “New Home Design 101 - The Very Beginning“. When you are finished with these new articles you will have a detailed [...]
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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.
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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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 [...]
