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Designing Home Plans
A Thorough Home Plan Design Increases the
likelihood of a successful Home Construction Project
By: Mark J. Donovan
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Designing home plans is important for
multiple reasons. Home plan designs are necessary for defining your home
construction project, obtaining home construction bids, pulling permits, and for
viewing 2 and 3 dimensional perspectives of the floor plans.
Whether you’re designing home plans
with a home design software package, or simply using graph paper and pencil, it
is important to be as specific and thorough as possible. |
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By including as much detail as
possible in your home design plans you can better visualize the new home or
home addition. In addition, you’ll be able to better assess floor plans and
the building material used in the home construction project.
It is important to note that
designing home plans involves much more than just sketching some rough
images of the new home, or home addition. At a minimum you will need to
include interior and exterior elevations, cross-sectional construction views
of load bearing walls, dimensional information, and planned structural
building materials just to pull permits. |
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However, successfully pulling a new
home construction permit is a far cry from getting the new home or home addition
of your dreams.
A complete home plan design should
include details down to where the bathroom towel rack, for example, will be
located. Without this level of detail, you will ultimately find yourself making
last minute changes to the home plans, and having disputes with your contractor
for implementing and paying for the newly generated home design change orders.
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Do not assume anything when it comes
to a home construction project. Assumptions are the tickets to cost overruns and
schedule delays.
When designing home plans, generate
multiple elevation views of the interior so that you can better visualize the
floor plans. Frequently, after the rough framing is complete, homeowners wind up
asking the framing contractor to change wall locations or the size of a room
because they “didn’t realize how small the room was going to be”. Also include
the specific details such as the locations for wall outlets and switches, light
fixtures, central vacuum receptacles, toilet and bathroom towel racks, dryer
vents, etc. In addition, specify in your home design plans the exact lighting
fixtures, toilet and bathroom towel racks, central vacuum system, etc., that you
desire in your new home. Again, every imaginable detail should be included when
designing house plans.
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If your home construction project
includes a new kitchen, meet with a kitchen designer to develop the exact
specifications for the kitchen cabinets, down to the cabinet material, cabinet
hardware, and dimensions for each cabinet. The kitchen design specifications can
then be integrated into the top level home plan design.
By designing home plans that are
thorough in the definition of your new home, or home addition, you can prevent
incidents such as the delay in building materials arriving days, or even weeks,
late to the job site. Delays in the delivery of building materials of just a few
days can sometimes set you back weeks, or even months, if the contractor walks
of the job and starts another project. By having a complete set of home plans
you help mitigate this type of risk and increase the likelihood of a successful
home construction project.
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