Hill Country Home Design – Texas Hill Country INTRODUCTION In one part of our fruited plain – Texas, especially Texas hill country – there is a home design style – Spanish/Mediterranean – that thrives And it’s Texas hill country where this house is going WHAT’S IN A... ( added 2 years 178 days ago.)

Creative Home Design, River House Redesign With the other guys, you can get the house they sold you. With us, you can get the house you know you paid for. Before The Architect INTRODUCTION This house remodel design plan unfolded in three phases - Phase 1 - Can you... ( added 2 years 180 days ago.)

Garrison Colonial Home Update – Front Of House INTRODUCTION While we're going to work with a Garrison Colonial overall, this is particularly a study in porch design to Front Of House. Garrison Colonials are plentiful across the fruited plain and not so easy to dress up... ( added 2 years 181 days ago.)

Garrison Colonial House Update, House Front Exterior - The Money Shot INTRODUCTION Garrison Colonials can appear puggish and they needn’t The house designer has two choices – Gussy-down, meaning emphasize Garrison’s characteristic L2 overhang feature by unadorning in the true Early American... ( added 2 years 181 days ago.)

Blue Ridge Hill Country Home Upgrade, Exterior Next time you're looking to hire house builders , ask 'em whether the house they're going to build for you will be with the same or better quality materials and methods as they'd use for their own house . . . and watch 'em wiggle. Before The... ( added 2 years 182 days ago.)

Designer Home Window Schedule Checklist INTRODUCTION In a designer home plan A window schedule comes late in the design and drafting enterprise. Dust-ups of all sorts should be settled before the window schedule shows up on the flat-screen monitor, including but... ( added 2 years 182 days ago.)

Victorian Home Plan - Gothic Farmhouse Style INTRODUCTION Time was when Before The Architect reckoned a Victorian house plan for a farmhouse was Victorian Queen Anne style. Shame on us. Our clients had quite different notions, and dialogued with us considerably to make... ( added 2 years 183 days ago.)

Home Foundation Design Details – Concrete Floor Joints, Corner Reinforcement, Slopes, Gas Curb INTRODUCTION Before The Architect takes a rigorous home foundation design position with respect to reinforced concrete slabs-on-grade details. Herewith, we’ll present Designing concrete floor joints with multi-variable... ( added 2 years 184 days ago.)

House Foundation Design Detail - Slab-On-Grade Design Basics, Scored Concrete Supplement INTRODUCTION Before The Architect recognizes no more abused, less well understood subjects in house foundation concrete design, concrete details, and concrete construction than slab-on-grade design, slab-on-grade detail, and... ( added 2 years 185 days ago.)

Unique Home Foundation Detail – Grade Beam Design and Concrete Pilasters Redundancy is Before The Architect’s friend. Before The Architect INTRODUCTION This article is about two apparently unique home foundation details involving grade beam design and concrete pilasters One home foundation... ( added 2 years 186 days ago.)

Unique Home Design Details - Bathroom Fan Design with Kitchen Fan Design Supplement INTRODUCTION Before The Architect is amazed at how little attention is given in anybody’s house plan to such an important subject as exhaust fans. It's honorable mention at best in most A cutesy picture of a whirly-gig sort... ( added 2 years 188 days ago.)

Useful and Safer Home Design Detail Techniques INTRODUCTION Useful and safer home design detail techniques are big deals to Before The Architect and its clients This is a case study of both useful and safer home design based on our actual experience just last week where a series... ( added 2 years 188 days ago.)

Wood Deck Design – Knee Brace A home inspector comes to the house of a past client for whom Before The Architect designed, among other structures, a large deck all along the back of the house. The inspection is for clearing a sales contract. The inspector was supposed to enter... ( added 2 years 188 days ago.)

French Country Home Designs - French Country Style "It's the house I've wanted to build all my life," said the third-generation dream home builder/owner-in-partnership, whose patient participation and unusually high standards of form, fit, and finish made this enterprise worthwhile, memorable, an... ( added 2 years 190 days ago.)

Country French Home Design - Chateau Style Hi, Plan set, articles on brick veneer and [most recent] invoice received. Awesome! Once again, we are sincerely grateful for your hard work, knowledge, skill, creativity, and kind ... . I'll be working on all this today and maybe tomorrow, to... ( added 2 years 190 days ago.)

Home Dining Room Design Details – Dining Space INTRODUCTION Dining room design details relating to dining space seem to fail more often than any other home space design. Now, we’re not just talking about a formal dining room design; we’re also talking breakfast room design and eat-in... ( added 2 years 191 days ago.)

Arch Design Details for the Custom Home INTRODUCTION Arch design details find their way into almost all of Before The Architect's unique home designs. Estate-sized and not-so-estate-sized. Outside and inside. Few limits prevail beyond style propriety and header or beam height. ... ( added 2 years 196 days ago.)

Home Design Consultant: An American Period Style Home Gem, Garage Design Addition How did I get started? When I was young enough to go down the street alone, I'd go down the street and visit residential and commercial building sites. The older I got, the farther down the street I went. Before The Architect PREAMBLE:... ( added 2 years 200 days ago.)

Home Design Standards - Home Building Standards, 2Q07 Ed. by Before The Architect: E-Book Review Q: WHAT’S THIS ABOUT? A: Home Design Standards - Home Building Standards, 2Q07 Ed.: Custom Home Design Guide and Custom Home Construction Guide by Before The Architect, 570-page how-to e-book. It’s offered as a one of a kind design/build... ( added 2 years 205 days ago.)

Designer House Plan Schedules - Extensive, Unique Checklist Design standards are what ought to be built, not what must be built. Before The Architect INTRODUCTION The term "schedule" in a designer house plan - Generally applies to tables of information herein under (as opposed to "details,"... ( added 2 years 226 days ago.)

So You Want an Adaptable House for Your Golden Years? Introduction This custom house designer prefers this term for custom house design respectful of the aging process - “adaptable" design. Still, there’s a forest of nomenclature through which to wend your way, including but likely not limited to –... ( added 2 years 242 days ago.)

The State of Residential Design and Construction How would I characterize the house designing and house building business today? These are not the good old days, mortgages aside. People can search hard, travel far for good design and construction, find less, and pay more. Do it yourself or... ( added 2 years 255 days ago.)

Designer House Plans – Environmental Standards Schedule INTRODUCTION The Environmental Design Standards Schedule has Grown like Topsy in Before The Architect’s Designer House Plans Probably to grow some more An Environmental Design Schedule of some sort, is A general requisite... ( added 2 years 257 days ago.)

Custom House Plan Details - Extensive, Unique Checklist INTRODUCTION This house designer gets all choky when he’s shown other guys’ custom house plan details. There are the usual suspects interior elevations of bathrooms and other complex spaces rough drawings of house door... ( added 2 years 264 days ago.)

Before The Architect - Granite Knee Chronicles, Part 3 From the granite knee of life experience down all the years More words of wisdom from Before The Architect Wise words that keep on giving . . . . . . . . . Serve and satisfy. That's the outcome of design. Serve a function. Satisfy a sense. The... ( added 2 years 266 days ago.)