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| Sheathing A Roof & Sheathing A Wall on Exterior and Interior INTRODUCTION
This is about sheathing a roof and a wall of a home, that being the first structure and most often the only structure covering either roof frame or wall frame for Before The Architect (BTA) home design
Comment: For more on... ( added 13 days 14 hours ago.) |
| Home Design Hardware, Home Design Software - House Design Tips and Info INTRODUCTION
This is about Before The Architect (BTA) home designers' custom house designer tools and related info.
WHO, WHERE, AND WHEN
BTA operates in cyberspace from early in the morning until late afternoon - mid-evening... ( added 15 days 1 hour ago.) |
| Home Roof Construction - Roof Framing Details
INTRODUCTION
This e-article is about construction of a home roof, notably details of roof framing as home design standards
The principal focus of this writing is hand-framing, or stick frame construction, of a home roof... ( added 17 days 14 hours ago.) |
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| Shear Wall Details - Home Design and Construction Details
INTRODUCTION
This e-article is about shear wall design and construction details
Before The Architect (BTA) doesn't design shear walls; engineers design shear walls
The hitch: ( added 20 days 22 hours ago.) |
| Concrete Foundation Design - Spread Footing, Spot Footing
INTRODUCTION
This e-article is about a concrete foundation spread footing
Identity
Design
Construction
Comment: Before The Architect (BTA) assumes that these footings as with all other footings... ( added 23 days 20 hours ago.) |
| Concrete Foundation Design - Turndown Footing, Turn Down Slab INTRODUCTION
Among concrete footings, turndown footings have the biggest identity crisis they're known by many names
Turn down, t urn-down, turndown, turned down, turned-down each of itself or in various combinations with footing... ( added 25 days ago.) |
| Concrete Foundation Design - Strip Footing Foundation, T-Wall Foundation Properties INTRODUCTION
This e-article is about designing a concrete foundation footing, which is a way of saying it's about designing t-wall foundation properties
More properly, this article is about a continuous, placed, reinforced concrete... ( added 27 days 14 hours ago.) |
| Inside Home Design – Accessible Systems, Pocket Doors
INTRODUCTION
This e-article is about interior design of accessible systems in a home; namely, home plan design and construction of accessible pocket doors
BACKGROUND
Before The Architect's (BTA's) majority custom home... ( added 34 days 21 hours ago.) |
| Interior Home Planning Reference Library - American Craftsman Style Home Interior Design INTRODUCTION
This e-article is about behind-the-scenes sources of information to design home plans, sort of like this custom home designer's private reference library relevant to a specific custom home design
Such reference libraries... ( added 38 days 16 hours ago.) |
| Book Reviews Online - Home Design Standards - Home Building Standards 2Q08 INTRODUCTION
This e-article is a book review about the e- book Home Design Standards Home Building Standards 2Q08 Edition
REVIEW
Q: What is this e-book all about?
A: How to better design a home and how to better build a... ( added 43 days 21 hours ago.) |
| Custom Home Design Program Series – Roof Plan Design Pictures & Text
INTRODUCTION
This e-article is about designing a custom home Roof Plan, including pictures and text
ROOF PLAN DESIGN PICTURES & TEXT
Comment: Nothing confuses and confounds more than a roof plan. In this custom home... ( added 46 days 14 hours ago.) |
| Home Foundation Design - Anchor Bolt Installation
Introduction
This e-article is about installing anchor bolts in designing a home foundation
Guidelines to follow are an accumulation and amalgam of the literature and work at the granite knee of life experience
Anchor... ( added 48 days 15 hours ago.) |
| Home Foundation Design - Foundation Plan, Slab-On-Grade and T-Wall
INTRODUCTION
This e-article is about designing a home foundation, specifically a foundation plan for slab-on-grade and t-wall placement
FOUNDATION PLAN Comment: From this custom home designer's vantage, the two most... ( added 48 days 17 hours ago.) |
| Home Plan Designs - Electrical Plan Design, Lighting Control Plan Design INTRODUCTION
This e-article is about Electrical Plan Design and Lighting Control Plan Design in designer home plans
Comment: Before The Architect designs an Electrical Plan along with a Lighting plan for each level of each custom home... ( added 50 days ago.) |
| Home Design Program Series - Home Floor Plan Designs
Introduction
This e-article is about how to layout home floor plan designs
Pics To Ponder
Comment: This custom home designer most often splits up really complex floor plan designs into 2 sheets, in order to keep down the clutter... ( added 52 days 15 hours ago.) |
| Custom Home Design Program Series - Home Elevation (Exterior) INTRODUCTION
This e-article is about designing a home elevation
It's part of Before The Architect's program series on custom home design . . . . .
( added 54 days 15 hours ago.) |
| Custom Home Design - Site Plan Design
Introduction
This e-article is about a custom home design page of a home plan set how to design a Site Plan
Comment: Please note that there are plenty of other e-articles hereunder that present other aspects of a custom home design... ( added 56 days ago.) |
| Do You Know What's in Your Home Plan? INTRODUCTION
This e-article is about custom home plan cover sheets
Either you're taught early-on that you cannot tell a book by its cover or you learn it for yourself later on ( added 62 days 15 hours ago.) |
| Overview of Home Plan Designs – About a Realistic Home Plan Design Program INTRODUCTION
This e-article is mostly about how not to go about developing a house plan and ways you can tell that you're in trouble. The point: avoid this stuff and you're advantaging successful home design program.
JUST A SAM ( added 66 days 13 hours ago.) |
| Craftsman Style Custom Home Exterior Design 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 67 days 15 hours ago.) |
| Custom Home Foundation Design – Modified Grade Beam Design Detail
INTRODUCTION
This e-article extends others in the Searchwarp.com library regarding house foundation design and construction, now to include a mod ( added 68 days 14 hours ago.) |
| Interior Design Ideas – Wood Trim Designs, Bringing a Craftsman Home Interior Together This e-article is about an interior design idea that Before The Architect can pursue with clients: bringing a home interior together with wood trim designs.
Whereas, any interior style can benefit from this interior design idea, this custom... ( added 69 days 16 hours ago.) |
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| Craftsman Style Interior Detail - Wainscot INTRODUCTION Before The Architect added this Craftsman Style interior detail text on wainscot to a plan set's D5 [5th sheet of cross-referenced details], after recognizing that design guidance could be formative, and ought to be identified as... ( added 70 days 16 hours ago.) |
| Stone and Brick Masonry Watertables – Custom Home Design Tips This e-article addresses watertables in context of both custom home design and construction.
DEFINITION ( IN EXTREMIS )
A watertable (this custom home designer's spelling preference; a/k/a: water table, water-table; offset, rarely) –
... ( added 93 days 14 hours ago.) |
| Planning a Radon Mitigation System For a Custom Home – Radon Mitigation System Design and Construction
INTRODUCTION
This article addresses practical aspects of radon mitigation design and construction in a custom home plan.*
SETTING THE STAGE
Before The Architect (BTA) was chosen recently to develop a custom home plan, including a radon... ( added 93 days 18 hours ago.) |
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