Desert Contemporary Style: Form Follows Function It has been written that form follows function. For house plan designers, function is the result of life and form is the result of design. Take all the names folks give to the oh so many different ways in laying out, sizing, arranging, appointing... ( added 2 years 281 days ago.)

French Country House Plan: How to Get It Right and How to Screw It Up INTRODUCTION French Country is a popular architectural house style nowadays, both exterior and interior. In this article, Before The Architect addresses the French Country architectural house style on the exterior. ..... WHAT'S IT ALL... ( added 2 years 281 days ago.)

Design Characteristics of a Craftsman Style Home, A Tutorial Introduction You, too, can design your own custom house, remodel, house renovation, house addition, or building plan change with characteristics of a Craftsman Style home, especially Craftsman Style home exteriors . Bob Vila and an army of... ( added 2 years 281 days ago.)

Quality Control Tools - Layout Design Standards INTRODUCTION This article is about quality control tools at work as layout design standards in custom home designing Any custom house design from our shop undergoes changes, changes, and more changes the best of plans surprise with... ( added 2 years 282 days ago.)

Designer House Plans - Kitchen Plan Design Standards Introduction A kitchen plan design is central to designer house plans. It's the spiritual hearth of the home, the ultimate gathering place, the source of physical nourishment, a source of fundamental satisfaction. Before The Architect house... ( added 2 years 282 days ago.)

Home Building Materials, Framing Lumber Material Design Standards It's sort of crazy making enemies of home building products. You know? But if those home building products have cost you bigtime, hurt you bigtime, failed you bigtime, then just disliking is too good a word for 'em bigtime. “Famous Quotes," Before... ( added 2 years 282 days ago.)

Designer House Plan Lessons Learned At The Granite Knee: Part 2 Designer House Design Rules: Would that it were ever thus Do it right the first time. Designer house plans that are quickly roughed up for preliminary viewing are house drawings susceptible to retaining errors throughout a designer... ( added 2 years 297 days ago.)

Designer House Plan Lessons Learned At The Granite Knee: Part 1 Do you know a swell way to ruin a good day on a house construction jobsite? I do. I’ve witnessed it in the making or underway tons of times: screw up the designer house plans. There are 3 dimensions to designer house plan failures: Poor... ( added 2 years 297 days ago.)

Designer House Plans and Age-Old Proportion, Harmony, Pattern Language INTRODUCTION Before The Architect suggests that there’s a place in designer house plans for age-old Western notions of unity, harmony, order, proportion, even Classicism. Noteworthy, virtually all of these means and motives potentially... ( added 2 years 298 days ago.)

Home Fire Safety - Interior Stairway Design Fire Safety Guidelines Introduction As to home fire safety in home building plans, much codified ado is made of fire-blocking wall and floor structure. but not much at all on stairway design and stairway construction. Comment: This codified ado even sort-of... ( added 2 years 298 days ago.)

Home Fire Safety - Home Elevator Design, Fire Safety Design Guidelines Introduction Sure did surprise Before The Architect: Home that elevator design seems not to involve a shred of home fire safety code to be had across the fruited plain far as this house designer can tell so far. (Now, there is a U. S. elevator... ( added 2 years 298 days ago.)

Home Lighting Design - Interior Daylighting INTRODUCTION Home lighting design policy for most any house these days: let the daylight in. . . with qualifications – maybe not too much, not too little, depends on where, depends on how, how about when, depends what it’s... ( added 2 years 299 days ago.)

Home Lighting Design For Aging Eyes. Part 2: the Math PROLOGUE Please note that this is the second part of a two-part series on Home Lighting Design For Aging Eyes - this and the first part, on The Basics at http://searchwarp.com/swa124510.htm . [Hang on mathphobes, this stuff boils down to... ( added 2 years 300 days ago.)

Home Lighting Design For Aging Eyes. Part 1: the Basics INTRODUCTION This is about a home lighting design guidance system to light home interiors for aging eyes, the aim of which is to tailor home lighting design practically, not only sensitive to its occupants, but also easily specified and readily... ( added 2 years 301 days ago.)

Home Lighting Design, Avoiding Light Flutter: How Ceiling Fans and Ceiling Lights Can Get Along Together Light flutter comes from fan blades interrupting a view of light rays – natural or mechanical source. This is about mechanical source interruption and its avoidance by home lighting design. Light flutter can be divided in two categories –... ( added 2 years 303 days ago.)