Tag: interior style
  • How to design your home?

    October 13th, 2008

    What could be more exciting than moving into a new house? What about moving into a new house made entirely of your taste and design? We have prepared some tips, how to light and easy to plan and run your future home.

    1. First buy land if you do not have one. Note whether it is located on equal ground outside corner or that. The qualities and characteristics of the soil are among the factors that will influence the choice of house foundations of the future – that will have basement, outside entrance to the basement, etc. In the first phase of design should take into account and views, trees, as and the yard layout. It is desirable that the face of the house be directed eastwards, towards the sun.

    2. Hire a good architect. It will help you organize your wishes, to beat an outline design and to prepare some preliminary documents and statements as authorization to work contract with the contractor and others.

    3. Determine the size of the house, according to financial capacity. At the same time be aware and size of the plot.

    4. Decide whether the architect you hired will design your home or to get ready plans and will hire a developer who works on them. Finished plans would be cheaper, but the architect on the other hand, will capture the taste and mood as help to get the desired result.

    5. Determine exactly what you want to include your home – number of bedrooms, bathrooms, the interior of the kitchen, garage, etc. What elements should have mandatory and which can be deprived. The plan include the external projects such as porches, gardens and pool.

    6. Note lifestyle of your family – now well into the foreseeable future. Do you have frequent visits from friends in the late hours? Want home office, room to watch movies or shop? If we expect visits by parents or older children, and whether to deploy equipment on the main floor to avoid stairs. All these issues may prove crucial later.

    7. Buy magazines for various interior and books or collect information via the Internet, such as sites like this. Even if you hire an architect for the final draft ready and considered plans could lead to even better ideas. The more you have an idea about how to look your home, the better the chance architect to design your particular house, which dream.

    8. Note the style. Around the neighborhood and take pictures of houses that we enjoy. Gather ideas for colors, fences, windows, doors, roofs and forms of others. Let the architect to speak openly and honestly to your list of ideas about what love and what not. However, hardly want to build a house to remind that of Frankenshtayn, decorated in styles vsevazmozhni.

    9. Be flexible in your ideas. Be willing to compromise. The budget available materials and complexity of the plans will affect the design and the outcome of your future home.