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Is Your Home LEED Certified? -
 - Joe Samson (16)  
If you have ever been involved in the construction or sale of homes in the past few years, you may have heard about LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. This voluntary Green Building Rating System promotes the global adoption of sustainable green building and... ( added 1 day 5 hours ago.) |
Australian Vernacular Residential Design - Home Design Review -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)     
INTRODUCTION
Before The Architect (BTA) has been commissioned to design a roof system atop two nearly-joined residential buildings in Australia . This e-article is taken from a consultative design review with the clients.
The design style of the residence under major remodel is... ( added 1 year 185 days ago.) |
Home Design Hardware, Home Design Software - House Design Tips and Info -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
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, that is, rarely after 6AM and sometimes much earlier... ( added 1 year 206 days ago.) |
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Concrete Foundation Design - Spread Footing, Spot Footing -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
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 are sited on substrates of reasonable bearing... ( added 1 year 215 days ago.) |
Concrete Foundation Design - Strip Footing Foundation, T-Wall Foundation Properties -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
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 strip footing and the continuous, placed (or... ( added 1 year 219 days ago.) |
Interior Home Planning Reference Library - American Craftsman Style Home Interior Design -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
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 can be assembled for interior or exterior... ( added 1 year 230 days ago.) |
Book Reviews Online - Home Design Standards - Home Building Standards 2Q08 -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
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 home.
Q: How can you be so bold as to say "better"? ( added 1 year 235 days ago.) |
Custom Home Design Program Series – Roof Plan Design Pictures & Text -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
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 designer's opinion, if it's not drawn in 3 dimensions... ( added 1 year 238 days ago.) |
Home Foundation Design - Anchor Bolt Installation -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
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 Bolt Installation
For wood stud wall... ( added 1 year 240 days ago.) |
Home Foundation Design - Foundation Plan, Slab-On-Grade and T-Wall -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
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 technically difficult custom home plan designs are the... ( added 1 year 240 days ago.) |
Home Plan Designs - Electrical Plan Design, Lighting Control Plan Design -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
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 the firm works. The Electrical Plan is detailed... ( added 1 year 241 days ago.) |
Home Design Program Series - Home Floor Plan Designs -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
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 and potential confusion from a welter of dimension... ( added 1 year 244 days ago.) |
Custom Home Design Program Series - Home Elevation (Exterior) -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
INTRODUCTION
This e-article is about designing a home elevation
It's part of Before The Architect's program series on custom home design . . . . .
ABOUT DESIGNING A HOME EXTERIOR ELEVATION
( added 1 year 246 days ago.) |
Custom Home Design - Site Plan Design -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
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 plan, including, among others
Overview - ( added 1 year 247 days ago.) |
Overview of Home Plan Designs – About a Realistic Home Plan Design Program -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
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 SAMPLING
( added 1 year 258 days ago.) |
Craftsman Style Custom Home Exterior Design Tutorial -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
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 others show you how to build. Now, you're going to... ( added 1 year 259 days ago.) |
Custom Home Foundation Design – Modified Grade Beam Design Detail -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
INTRODUCTION
This e-article extends others in the Searchwarp.com library regarding house foundation design and construction, now to include a modified grade beam design and construction. ( added 1 year 260 days ago.) |
Interior Design Ideas – Wood Trim Designs, Bringing a Craftsman Home Interior Together -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
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 home designer prefers to present Craftsman Style for... ( added 1 year 261 days ago.) |
Craftsman Style Interior Detail - Wainscot -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
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 responsibly and authentically as could be without... ( added 1 year 262 days ago.) |
Stone and Brick Masonry Watertables – Custom Home Design Tips -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
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) –
a horizontal, projecting, (usually of)... ( added 1 year 285 days ago.) |
Planning a Radon Mitigation System For a Custom Home – Radon Mitigation System Design and Construction -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
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 mitigation plan, for a to-be-built in Knoxville... ( added 1 year 285 days ago.) |
Stud Wall Design Standards -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
INTRODUCTION
Almost everybody’s got ‘em – stud walls.
They’re the bones of almost all houses in the US . Building them is mostly regarded as commodity work.
Did you know that the design of wood stud walls can vary widely – to the benefit or bane of owners? ( added 2 years 142 days ago.) |
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Home Lighting - Interior Design Case Study #3, Advanced Applications -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
INTRODUCTION
This is the third of three case study articles on the interior design of home lighting as uniquely presented in Before The Architect custom home plans
This advanced applications article may better be appreciated by first studying Home Lighting - Interior Design Case... ( added 2 years 145 days ago.) |
Home Lighting - Interior Design Case Study #2, Advanced Applications -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
INTRODUCTION
This is the second of three case study articles on the interior design of home lighting as uniquely presented in Before The Architect custom home plans.
This advanced applications article may better be appreciated by first studying Home Lighting - Interior Design... ( added 2 years 149 days ago.) |
Home Lighting - Interior Design Case Study #1, Basic Application -
- Ralph Pressel (48,218)
INTRODUCTION
This is the first of three case study articles on the interior design of home lighting as uniquely presented in Before The Architect custom home plans
This article starts up slow and easy
The other two articles crank it up in their address of two of the... ( added 2 years 153 days ago.) |
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