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How to Design Your Own Home
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Tags: Design Your Own Home, Building a Home, Purchasing a Home
This planning scenario takes you through the steps required to gather the information, resources and examples necessary to enable you to design your own home. You will develop all the required knowledge that goes into the planning of the home of your dreams. Whether it's building a new home or remodeling an existing one, both processes are exactly the same. Remodeling folks have additional burdens of starting with a box that limits them, but hopefully this will help!
| | Getting Started: Planning Your New Home is the most critical moment of the process, the most fun and the magical inspiration every project needs to make a house, a home - yours! Enjoy these early beginnings, capture the lightning-in-the-bottle that motivates you in the first place to design your own home. Write it all down, keep a scrap book, bookmark pictures in books, take pictures, whatever your preferred method - most importantly Get Started |
| | Get Organized: You need documents that contain information you've gathered which serves to direct your planning efforts. Accurate documents focus attention on facts. Basic information eliminates "Pie-in-the-Sky" dream scenarios which waste time, effort and people's patience. Start with a Requirements List. Make a Wish List separately so that you can add it to your design later, as you find you can afford. Spend approximately 30 days to 6 months on this part. |
| | Find a Scheme: You'll want to consider several different designs to find the scheme that best fits your needs. Schemes are freehand sketches drawn to capture the essence of a plan under consideration. They can be as simple as paper napkin sketches or professionally illustrated drawings. All are valid tools and each serves the purpose to convey a concept. This should take you about 3-6 months. |
| | Develop the Design: This is the phase of the process where dimensions are added to the drawings. Everything must be made to fit at this phase. You will develop your scheme into a completely dimensioned drawing. With a Conceptual Design roughed out, scheme chosen, a theme decided upon and problems on the site ironed out, you are fitting all the pieces of the puzzle together in this step. You know you are done here when you have located on paper the location of every door and window in the house. This should take you approximately 2 months. |
| | Draft Plans: The takeaway from this step is a fully detailed set of plans that the city and construction workers will use to build your home. You will need a professional draftsman and registered engineer at minimum. This is the best point to bring an architect into your process, if you are so inclined. This exceeds our scope for the purposes of this wiki. |
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