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Creating House Floor Plans
The Modern House Floor Plan Design Focuses on
Home Technology and Comfort
By: Mark J. Donovan
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House floor plans specify the shapes
and sizes of rooms and hallways, as well as provide the backbone to your new
home construction project. From your desired house floor plans you can determine
the style and shape of the home that needs to be built to support it. Today’s
house floor plans are more about functionality than about large layouts. Modern
home floor plans focus more on supporting the creature home technology comforts
of today’s society than just the physical size of the room. |
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For example the necessary living
spaces for home theater systems, security systems, spas, and high end
appliances.
Today’s modern house floor plans
are also about creating warm and comfortable living spaces, and that utilize
green building techniques to save on energy requirements.
When designing house floor plans
you can use paper or pencil, or one of the latest home design software
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The home design software packages are
great for providing fast 2 and 3 dimensional views, as well as elevation views
of a house floor plan. They also allow for the easy integration of paint colors,
flooring types, appliances, and furniture into the house floor plan so that you
can get a real sense of the finished rooms.
Whether you are using a home design
software package, or paper and pencil, it is important to include dimensional
information for the overall size of the new home, or home addition, and every
room in it.
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In addition, every wall, door, and
window opening should include dimensional information. Also, every aspect and
feature of each room should be included in the house floor plans. For example,
in the bathroom you should include the location and size of the bathroom vanity,
toilet, tub and shower unit. Likewise, in the kitchen you should include the
location and size of all kitchen cabinets, appliances and even sink sizes. In
addition, finished wall surfaces such as the use of wainscoting should be
identified. By including this level of information, for example, the framing
contractor can determine where blocking between wall studs is required.
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Another must have in your house floor
plans is the location of electrical outlets and switches. By specifying the
location of these items you can make sure that they are appropriate for the home
technology you have planned for each room. Who really wants to see that TV
cable wire dragged along the edge of a wall because you forgot to specify the
location of the outlet box in your plans? I know I personally don’t, yet I live
with it in my current home, because I forgot to consider where the TV would be
located when originally developing my home addition house plans.
By creating house floor plans to this
level of detail you are less apt to forget something in your new home. In
addition, this level of detail is critical for getting accurate contractor bids
for your new home, or home addition.
Finally, it is important to recognize
the fact that designing house floor plans takes some time and effort. Don’t be
surprised if you find yourself spending many evenings and weekends massaging the
house floor plans. However by taking this upfront time, you will be much more
likely to get the new home of your dreams. In addition, you will reduce the risk
of causing cost overruns and schedule slips due to making last minute, or after
the fact, change orders.
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