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Home Floor Plans for Home Additions
Consider Furniture and Traffic Patterns when
Designing Home Floor Plans
By: Mark J. Donovan
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If you are in the process of planning
a home addition, you can either develop your own set of home floor plans or you
can purchase online a set of generic stock home addition plans. Purchasing home
floor plans online is a great way to get a jump start on your own custom home
addition plans, however they typically require tweaking to meld the home
addition design into your existing home. In some cases you can modify or adapt
the plans yourself, but in many cases you may need to enlist the services of an
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There are numerous online
companies that sell home addition plans. Each offer many types of home floor
plans and home addition plans. There are generic stock home addition plans
for master bedrooms, sunrooms, second story shed dormers, kitchen additions,
and great rooms, to name just a few. Each offers not only a set of
blueprints to build the home addition, but also 2D and 3D drawings and
pictures of the finished home addition from multiple viewpoints.
If you are designing your own
home floor plans you may want to review some of the online floor plans to
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When developing your own home floor
plans first write down how you plan to use the room and what pieces of furniture
you are planning to have in it. You may want to create some scaled paper-doll
type cut-outs of the furniture to place in the home addition floor plans. This
way you can get a better sense of how large to make the home addition.
One key area to consider when
developing home floor plans is traffic flow through the home addition. For
example, if you are designing a kitchen addition it is best to design the
locations of the stove, sink and refrigerator in a triangle layout.
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This type of layout allows you to
stand in the middle of the triangle and be able to easily reach anyone of these
key kitchen appliances.
Likewise, doorways and hallways are
other key items that are often overlooked when developing a set of home floor
plans for a home addition.
The doors should be positioned such
that they open into hallways, or virtual hallways if there are no walls. By
strategically placing doorways and hallways in the home floor plan you can
maximize the use of the new living space in the finished home addition.
With these few simple tips, you
should be able to quickly develop your own custom home floor plans for your home
addition.
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