BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – HOME DESIGN GUIDE, HOME BUILDING GUIDE
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HOME DESIGN OVERVIEW
"Educate. Entertain. Inspire. It's all I can do on a good day. It's all that I look for in others on their good days." AG
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You have to pay attention to what you're doing, where you're headed, plan, and pass it along . . .
How? How do people communicate about home building plans?
Home buyers have to know what's being built.
Home builders have to know what's to be built.
It does not matter the home design. It does not matter what is to be built. Home buyers and home builders must communicate.
This is not chicken-and-egg time; the builders' language rules in home building plans.
This website is for folks who don't know much about home building plans and home design and commercial building design plans . . . and for those who do. Here is where specific notions of home designing and home building become intellectually accessible. Here, you can learn the what and why of building.
Here are some lists to demonstrate just how very seriously, how very important are home designing style, space, and type to us -
Home plan types (with a few commercial plans, non-US plans, and whimsy thrown in)
Defined space (or even space size, you now, large this, small that, long, narrow, high, low, up, etc.)
Home building type
Now, before you ever
contact
Before The Architect, read this . . . . . Important: Whether you are
remodeling or building new, please put the Autocad Granddad to work
productively. What's here for home drawing are examples of
what you can buy from the Autocad Granddad. The related words – explanations, insights, comments,
rationales – demonstrate the thinking, the experience put to
work in creating the home drawing. The ideas are for-free.
It's only the home drawing that'll cost you.
MODEL HOME DRAWING, and
Concept
home drawing: At the earliest stage of things to be built —
that's where Concept Home Drawing come in. (architects call this
"massing".) These are the first efforts at
visualizing, objectifying, get right with proportion and placement. Concept
Home Drawing take
gobs of guesswork out of planning and building. Most
building projects benefit from Concept Home Drawing, and most projects pass them by.
And you wondered why building things can be so difficult! In
Concept Home Drawing, you'll see block shapes of what's
already there, and what's to be added or changed. No windows. No
wood. No house plan details and dimensions. Just basic shapes of things done and
things to come. These are both 2d and 3d home design presentations.
Model
Home drawing: Model Home Drawing are representations of finished
projects before the specifics are worked out, that is, before the Builder
Home Drawing. Most often, structural additions and other major changes demand
Model Home Drawing. Autocad Granddad draws models in
simple elevations, in 2d and 3d home and commercial designs. Building
professionals are used to working with 2d building design home drawing. Others
–
notably homeowners and business owners – often can grasp building concepts and
concerns much more quickly with 3d design perspectives.
BuildER home
drawing: These are the pictures with which builders and other contractors
work. This is the home drawing most commonly associated with building and redesigning homes
and light commercial structures. Here we're talking about all sorts of
home drawing: plan views from rough to
finished; interior and exterior
elevations from rough to finished;
cross-sections of almost anything to show how things go together;
schematics of
what major utilities, such as wiring, go where; and house plan
details of things
necessarily to be built in a certain way to avoid confusion, work delay, or
misapplication.
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These neat categories – Concept, Model, and
Builder – are not always so neat categorically. There's plenty of gray
area to go around all of them. A Concept home drawing can easily morph into a Model
home drawing
— just add a few house plan details. A Model home drawing is sometimes better off
understood as a Concept home drawing, even when it has a lot of elements, simply on
the basis that you're not sure where exactly you're going with it. More to this
room? Add that room? Not a standalone, but attached? Not one story
anymore, but
two? Where will the fireplace work best? Look best? And Builder Home
Drawing of House Plan Details can be Cross-Sections at the same time, and vice
versa. A Schematic is often only a step or two away from a full-blown plan
view. Some Elevations are more easily worked as Models, even
Concepts. There are several such cross-over home drawing on this
website. The moral? It's not what you want to label it; it's what
you need it to be.
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Here are odds and ends on the site,
too. There's our hero the
Autocad Granddad's bio
and a few of his
Quotes. There's
the nuts and bolts of
Getting In Touch with him, and
what it'll cost you to put him and Mrs. AG to work for you. You can
read and revel in
Frequently Asked Questions, or
FAQs. You can even brush up on the hundreds of Abbreviations
for home
designers, draftsmen, and home builders use in the
Lexicon
to stay on the same blueprint page and get it right the first time, along with a
startup, somewhat irreverent
Dictionary. And
there are the requisite
Links.
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