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Posts Tagged ‘dream home plans’
Friday, April 30th, 2010
When you decide to draw up some mountain home plans, KADTEC is the expert in the field you should come to; we know the subject inside and out. You might think that all you need is a good architectural drafter to draw up some plans, but there’s a lot more to it. Building in a mountainous region has some unique aspects to it, and we know how to deal with all of them.
First off, many people building the area for the view. Mountain view luxury homes are very popular. When you’re able to look out a window and see the Rocky Mountains or a mountain lake, that’s one incredible view. The air and water tend to be cleaner, and rustic mountain home plans can add to the natural beauty of the area.
Once you settle on a location, you need to consider several aspects of your site before getting mountain home plans drawn up. Is your land very steep, which is common? We can handle grading the property so that rain water doesn’t cause erosion. Once your dream house is built, and the landscaping laid out, you don’t want a thunder storm to wash everything away! Now, you can build any sort of dream home you want: a Victorian home design, any one of some great contemporary home designs, and even something with German architecture. But if the ground you build on is very steep, you may want to consider a split level home, or the house design may require a retaining wall. These are the sorts of things our staff of civil and structural engineers can help you with.
The members of our staff are experts at custom home design. We can create an architectural 3D rendering of any home blueprints we create for you. An architect is sometimes needed to sign and seal construction plans, but we can create any mountain home plans you need. Then we can coordinate with the architectural drafter to create the plans needed for the building permit.
While we’re not landscapers, we have a number of excellent ones – who know mountain home plans, and they are experts at creating landscaping plans for any type of terrain. This can be important because you want hardy plants that can survive in the mountains, and not die during your first winter.
Another thing that appeals to people about mountain home plans is the idea of incorporating eco-friendly products and green house plans into the design. We can help you go low-tech – like some passive solar home designs, or maybe a full solar house design. The idea of green mountain homes has a lot of appeal, and we can help you with every aspect and help you design your own house. No matter if it’s wind power, solar, energy efficient home plans, or green appliances; we’re the experts to help you create the perfect mountain home plans for your dream house.
Tags: design your own house, dream home, dream home design, dream home plans, eco-friendly, energy efficient, luxury home, mountain home plans
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
KADTEC is a company of skilled architectural drafters and civil engineers. We can handle all aspects of civil and structural engineering, from drafting services using the latest in architectural drawing software to structural and civil calculations. If you need one home designed or an entire subdivision, we have the staff and expertise to handle it.
Our company is dedicated to give our clients the very best in residential home blueprints for any client – from the individual to a large commercial developer. Our people know mountain terrain and can handle split level homes, adverse drainage situation, and poor soil conditions. If you’re a person looking to design your own home, we’re the people for you. We can walk you through the entire process, from picking the right spot on your property for your home, to selecting the style that’s right for you, and then coming up with the home blueprints. Don’t worry about the building permit process and the myriad of paperwork needed to build your dream home; that’s what we’re here for, and we’ll handle all of it.
While we don’t have landscapers in-house, we know the right sorts of people to help you realize that perfect garden you’ve always dreamed of. If you’re going to build a coastal home design, and want plants tough enough to resist wind, sand and salt air, we know the landscapers to help you. On the other hand, if you’re going to build a mountain luxury home, and don’t want your prize flowers dying in the first winter freeze, our landscape consultants know what to plant in your garden.
When it comes to home styles, you pick one out, and we’ll design your dream home plans around it. How about looking at some cottage home designs? Or, do you want an eco-friendly house that has German architecture, but is a full solar home design? Here again, our people know how to handle that sort of design. We use the latest computer software to generate architectural 3D renderings so you can see your dream home design before the plans are ever printed. Want to go over some home office design ideas or consider a home theater room design? We can add one wherever you want.
If you’re worried that you need an architect to handle your dream house plans, don’t. We can create everything from contemporary home designs to a Tuscan home design or maybe that mountain home plan you’ve always dreamed of. So, check out some of the services our firm has to offer; you’ll be glad you did. No matter what interior house design you have in mind; our firm can help you turn your dreams into reality, and give you that home you’ve been dreaming of.
Tags: contemporary home designs, design your own house, dream home design, dream home plans, home blueprints, home theater design, passive solar, solar home designs, Tuscan
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Sunday, March 7th, 2010
When looking to create your dream home, there are a ton of different home design ideas to consider, and KADTEC is eminently qualified to help you deal with all of them. Starting with ideas about where you want to build, we can handle coastal home designs, rustic mountain home plans, and everything in between. If you have some home landscape designs and ideas, we can refer you to great landscapers that we work with on a regular basis.
After that, there’s the layout of the lot. It doesn’t matter if you’ve got a flat lot or one that’s very steep, KADTEC has home design ideas that can help you grade it so that a flat one drains properly, and a steep one doesn’t get a lot of erosion from too much runoff. Sometimes, a steep lot requires a retaining wall to support your dream home. If that’s the case, KADTEC has structural engineers that can handle the calculations and permitting.
When it comes to the interior, you name the feature, and our design team can use 3D interior design software to draw up anything you like. Do you want to go with something classical – Tuscan home design, Victorian home design? If you want a southwest home design, northwest, a ranch home design, contemporary, French architecture, Spanish style, minimalist architecture, ultramodern, or even an eco-friendly home; we can work with you on home design ideas for your dream home design. If you want something completely different, we can even do a round house design.
In terms of home interior design ideas, there are a plethora of add-ons we can help you with. Do you want that perfect rec room, home office design or library you’ve always dreamed of? Do you have some home theater design ideas, complete with the latest sound system? If you want to stay fit, we can add a home gym design. Whichever member of the family loves to cook, we can layout the home kitchen design to be perfect for you.
And, let’s not forget the environment. Lots of people are concerned about Global Warming these days. Also, if you build out in a remote location, getting standard utilities can be problematic. So, you can incorporate many types of energy efficient home designs into your house design ideas. That can mean everything from a solar-powered hot water heater to a full solar home design and energy efficient home designs. When it comes to eco-friendly products, recycled building materials, and green home building techniques, we know how to make use of them all. So, no matter the home design ideas you’ve got, we can handle them.
Tags: dream home, dream home design, dream home plans, home theater design, interior design, landscape design, rustic, Tuscan
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Sunday, December 27th, 2009
These days, people love the idea of going over their own small home plans, getting them just the way they want. Well, at KADTEC, we’ve got you covered. Utilizing the latest in 3D CAD software, we can create a 3D architectural rendering of any home you can imagine. Why look at flat, boring blue prints when you can take a virtual walk through any of the efficient home designs you can conceive of?
It doesn’t matter if you want a big home or a small home design; the key to KADTEC is that we specialize in unique home designs. These days, small modern house designs have many benefits. Given the state of the financial system, small home plans are easier to build; they are more affordable, and they can give you a mortgage that is easier to handle. Also, if you do your own small home design with an eye to the future, to expanding, you can have your efficient house design, and still build it for a reasonable price. Down the road a piece, when you can afford it, you can add on those additional rooms.
KADTEC can handle the civil drafting for your small home plans. A small home design also has the virtue of being faster and easier to build. The bigger and more complex your dream home design is, the longer it’ll take to build. Also, you want to keep the future in mind. What sorts of energy efficient house plans are going to be coming available? A large house could take extensive renovation to make use of any breakthroughs in energy technology. Along those same lines, small home designs are more energy efficient. Right now, the future is very uncertain. You don’t want to get yourself into your home only to find it’s too expensive to maintain. You want to make sure that your utility bills are manageable. Going with an energy efficient home design, you can save money over the life of your home.
For that matter, there’s the simple issue of architectural styles. How many times have you looked at a home and instantly known when it was built because of the tacky style of the place? Home styles are like fashion styles – they change. What’s stylish today may be downright hideous in five years, and then home remodeling becomes an issue. A large home presents the problem of being hard to change and update when styles change. For that matter, you can change your mind about your home. The layout you love today, you may find it really doesn’t work for you, as you settle into your dream home. Even if you don’t want to expand your house, you may find that you want to remodel certain aspects of it. With small home plans, they are also easier and cheaper to implement.
When building a house, keep this in mind: it’s not like a haircut! If you don’t like your small home plans, it won’t grow back. That’s why getting a good design right from the get-go, viewing the home in a 3D rendering, and keeping the layout small and simple is the best way to get your dream home.
Tags: dream home, dream home design, dream home plans, eco-friendly, energy efficient, modern, small home design
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
The idea of log home designs has a lot of appeal for some people. Maybe it’s the idea of going back to nature, or you’re thinking of how Abraham Lincoln grew up in one. They can be beautiful, but they also have problems associated with them. Rather than going with a log cabin home plan, there are great mountain home designs available that are much better.
Log cabin home designs look quaint and pretty from the outside, but they’re fraught with troubles. Termites are everywhere, especially out in the wilderness. Unless you want to go to the expense of getting the logs for your log home building and cabin treated, those little buggers can literally eat you out of house and home! And, if you do treat the logs, now you’re putting chemicals into the environment, not very eco-friendly. Then there’s properly sealing the log home designs so you get a nice tight seam between the logs. Yes, modern chemicals and sealing compounds are good, but getting the log cut so that they fit together close enough for a firm seal is labor-intensive, and expensive. And finally, there’s the issue of getting through those walls. A plus of log home architectural design is the insulation that the logs provide. But, that’s a double-edged sword. Anytime you want to run a utility line, a pipe, or anything else in and out of the house, you have to do some serious drilling!
Instead of log home designs, take a look at the great mountain home designs that KADTEC has to offer. Step one, meet with the staff to look over our portfolio of previous works. From them, you can get some ideas as to the perfect dream home for you. If you have an architect already lined up, our staff can coordinate with them in your mountain home design. If you don’t have an architect, KADTEC can help you find one. Also, the company is in the process of getting its architectural license. No matter what services you need to design your home, we’ve got you covered.
Once you have a basic layout, KADTEC can advise you on making your rustic mountain home plans as eco-friendly as possible. These days, there are lots of green home construction methods available. How do you know which ones are right for you? The staff at KADTEC are experts at green house design, and can guide you in the process of selecting the best elements to work into your mountain home plans.
So, before you let some builder talk you into a log home building plan; check out the better alternatives that KADTEC has to offer. Remember, this is your home, the place you’re going to want to stay in for a long time. Log home designs may seem quaint, but you want the best design possible; that’s what KADTEC can do for you.
Tags: dream home, dream home design, dream home plans, eco-friendly, green home, log cabin, log home, mountain home plans, rustic
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Getting your home designed the way you want it is really only half the battle; you’ll want home landscape designs and ideas to finish it off. We at KADTEC don’t do landscaping, but we have a great bunch of landscapers that we work with regularly. When you find just the right lot for your dream home design to be realized, you’ll want to get a good home landscape design to go with it.
Landscaping can be as varied as the styles of homes that we can design for you. These days, there are landscape and home design software programs that allows you to review a plethora of home landscape designs and ideas before you ever stick a shovel in the ground. That’s an important feature of any landscape architecture design. As we’ve all seen from recent events, times are a bit tough these days. You do not want to waste time and money on a lot of different full sets of blue prints, only to find just the right home landscape design. That’s the virtue of landscape architect software; you’re landscape architect can create a variety of virtual layouts for your home, and then you can select the one you like.
You have a number of issues to consider when reviewing the home landscape designs and ideas for your dream home plans. First off, where are building? Are you planning to on a coastal home design, or maybe a mountain home plan? Each of these is a unique environment that will impact your home landscape design. A home built near the beach means that the soil is sandy, and the air is very salty. Plants that are very sensitive to salinity won’t thrive in such a situation. You need to be sure that your landscaper knows about such things. If you’re building in a northern clime and/or the mountains, you’ll want to avoid tropical plants. If your landscaper doesn’t think of that, your plants will wilt in the first winter’s frost. Then there are what are known as invasive or nuisance spices of plants. If your landscaper has home landscape designs and ideas that include such spices, your landscaping plan won’t be approved! Those kinds of plants are damaging to the environment.
Then there are other home landscape designs and ideas related to green home plans and being eco-friendly. It’s no secret that, these days, more and more people are concerned with the environment. That concern can extend to your garden and landscaping. A really good home landscape design can incorporate hardy plants that don’t need a lot of care. Desert plants can survive on much less water and fertilizer than other plants. For that matter, you can get a garden composter so that you use organic matter to create natural compost and fertilizer. If you can avoid putting chemicals into the soil, the local environment will be that much better for it. For that matter, if you or any of your neighbors use well water for drinking, you’ll want to minimize dumping chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides into the water table.
Tags: dream home, dream home design, dream home plans, eco-friendly, green home, landscape design, mountain home plans
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
When looking to build a new home, green roofing products, and other materials can yield a great dream home design. And, don’t worry that using green appliances are going to bust your budget. These days, you have a plethora of products to choose from, and many are very reasonably priced. In some cases, the government even gives you a tax break for using green roofing products and other similar materials in your house design plans.
Also, you don’t have to worry that you can only use green roofing products and the other building materials on some mountain-man looking cabin. No, you can create a modern house design in any style you want. If you love minimalist architecture or want a truly unique house design, we can help you do that. Do you want some really contemporary home designs, or maybe a rustic mountain home plan? We can help you create them. Green roofing products can be used on all of these styles of homes; and we can help you do so much more.
In terms of eco-friendly products and green appliances, there plenty to choose from. A hybrid vehicle is a good start, and then maybe a garden composter to help you fertilize your garden and landscape areas naturally. The less chemicals you dump into the environment, the better. You also don’t have to spend a fortune as you strive to help save the planet. Something as simple as a passive solar home design can incorporate thermal window panes, orienting windows to maximize winter exposure and minimize it during summer can be very helpful.
It’s important that you find a green architect who understands such things. While we don’t currently have an architect in-house, we work with plenty who know how to properly design a green home. they will design a home in whatever style you like, and make use of green roofing products and other alternative house designs to make your home as green as possible. Yet, we can also keep an eye on the bottom line. You want to do your part to help with Global Warming, pollution, and the depletion of natural resources, but you also want an affordable green home.
If you feel that a passive solar system isn’t enough, and want to explore different types of alternative energy, we can help with that as well. There are solar home designs available, and we can work with you and your architect to make your home as energy independent as possible. Using green roofing products and other green building materials can be just the first steps in creating a truly green home. Depending on where you live, wind and solar power can augment or even replace making use of power from your local utility. By trying to build a green home, you can do your part to protect our fragile ecosystem, and KADTEC can help you do it.
Tags: contemporary home designs, dream home plans, eco-friendly, energy efficient, green home, green roofing products, minimalist, modern, mountain home plans, passive solar, rustic, solar home designs, unique house design
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Friday, October 16th, 2009
There’s no denying that we live in “interesting” times, shall we say? Making sure that you have energy efficient house plans is of critical importance these days. Gas prices vary widely, and sometimes getting enough home heating oil is tough, especially if you live in a remote location. This is where energy efficient home designs are vital.
There’s a lot of debate as to the causes of Global Warming, but no one can deny that the world is warming up, and greenhouse gases are the driving force behind it. So, if you want to reduce your carbon footprint, energy efficient house plans are the way to do it. Maximizing your insulation, putting good shingles on the roof, and installing high efficiency appliances can be the key to achieving all of this. Many times, the construction methods used by the builder can be critical. It’s important that, when building a green home, it gets built right. Here’s one example: some builders will cut a notch out of the wall insulations when installing an electrical outlet. Each of those notches is a tiny hole in your insulations. If they do that for every outlet, it can add up to the equivalent of an open window in lost energy! Do you want to leave a window open all winter and all summer? What affect is that going to have on your energy efficient home design? Not only is your money essentially billowing out the window, but you’re pumping still more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. This is where KADTEC can help you by insuring that the energy efficient house designs outlined in your home blueprints are carried out properly.
Today, there are a variety of energy efficient house designs you can choose from when laying out your dream home plans. It doesn’t matter what architectural style you want: a Victorian home design, some cottage home designs, and even something as different as German architecture. All of these types of homes can benefit from eco-friendly products. Building a green home doesn’t mean having to sacrifice anything, if your engineer knows about all of the green architect resources available.
Energy efficient house plans can incorporate something as simple as passive solar home designs – the windows oriented to get plenty of the winter sun, and little of the hot summer sun. Then there are full solar home designs you can look into that will give you maximum energy efficient house plans. There are solar hot water heaters, and solar panels to go on your roof to supplement your electrical system. Depending on where you live, your energy efficient house plans could include a windmill. Placed in the right location, one of those can generate a lot of electricity. You can also check with your local utility, and see if they have a buy-back program with people who generate their own power. Some municipalities require their electric companies to buy power people generate themselves. As a result, if your energy efficient house plans prove very efficient, you may end up selling your excess power!
Tags: cottage, dream home, dream home plans, eco-friendly, energy efficient, green home, passive solar, solar home designs, Victorian
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Saturday, September 26th, 2009
Do you want to design you own dream home? For some, it’s a Victorian home design or a little gingerbread house nestles amongst some maple trees. For others, it’s a luxury mountain home with the Grand Teton Mountain Range (or some other range) as the view out their master bedroom window. Or maybe you’ve always dreamed of a little beach home design in the Florida Keys or on the Pacific shores.
Well, it doesn’t matter if your dream home is a Tuscan villa, German architecture, a ranch home design, or an eco-friendly minimalist home design; KADTEC can help you design you own dream home. We have the technology – 3D home design software, and other programs that will allow us to guide you through the process from conception to construction of your dream home plans. With our knowledge in engineering, you can focus on the layout and design of your own dream home, and we’ll take care of the calculations, plans, and permits.
Once you’ve selected the location for your dream home, you need to consider how you want to lay out the property. Is your land very steep? If so, you may have trouble with erosion when it rains. We can grade your lot to prevent that. Do you want to design a dream house that’s a split level home? That may require a stemwall or retaining wall; we have structural engineers in-house who can handle that, and help you design your own dream home, and then pass the home design on to your architect. We also have a number of excellent landscapers that we work with regularly. They can use landscape architect software to give you a veritable Garden of Eden on your property, yet make it something easy to maintain with a good sprinkler system and a little tending by you.
These days, many people want unique dream home plans, especially given the concerns about Global Warming. So, if you want to design your own dream home to include solar home designs, green home plans, biofuels, and the latest in energy efficient home designs, we’ve got you covered there as well. We can design an eco-home that
Everyone has ideas about the sorts of rooms they’ll have in their dream home. Whether it’s a home gym, home theater, library, your own private office, rec room or workshop, we can work with you to create the perfect layout for you. Do you want a master suite with walk-in closets and separate bathrooms? We have the knowledge and expertise to create that. Also, it doesn’t take an architect to create house plans; we can handle all aspects of the layout, and then take care of the permitting for construction.
Tags: beach home, dream home plans, eco-friendly, energy efficient, green home, luxury home, ranch home, Victorian
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
There’s an old joke that Henry Ford used to tell customers buying a model T that they could have any color they wanted, so long as it was black! Well, those days are gone, in more ways than one. Here at KADTEC, we can walk you through the entire craftsman home design process to create just the perfect dream house. The key for you is deciding which style you want to build. So, let’s look at some of the many styles available.
Rustic mountain home plans are our specialty. These homes generally have a covered front porch and a large rear deck, and high ceilings throughout the home. As the mountain home designs are often built on a steep slope, we can handle the design of a stemwall or retaining wall to properly support your foundation. Mountain home plans also lend themselves to green home construction. You can go with a timber frame design, or make it a stone mountain home.
Of course, we can handle any craftsman home design you want. Gingerbread house designs are beautiful, and feature lovely scroll woodworking incorporated into the porch railings, posts, and the house eaves. Often the home’s sidings are wood shingles, and you can have them carved into geometric designs and patterns. The island of Martha’s Vineyard is famous for its gingerbread house designs, and their web site has many pictures to give you ideas. One caveat though, these homes can require a lot of maintenance; so keep that in mind.
If you’re interested in the southwest home design, your craftsman home design can have a distinctly adobe and Spanish flavor to it. Those homes usually have tile roofs, wrought-iron railings, and mono-color walls with an earth tone. When you landscape such a home, you generally go with desert flowers and vegetation – lots of cacti. Now, you can go with contemporary home designs of a southwest home. The design preserves the classic style, but the homes tend to have sharper lines, recessed lighting, and an overall modern look.
A lot of times, the environment where you’re looking to build will influence the craftsman home design you settle on. French country home designs lend themselves very nicely to warm climates. They feature a timber frame home design, wide porches, lots of French doors (naturally) for ventilation, and few interior hallways. If you want to minimize your use of air conditioning, and you find halls a waste of space, this is an ideal craftsman home design for you.
Some people prefer a home all on one floor, especially if they or a family member is handicapped. In that case, ranch home designs are the perfect craftsman home design for you to consider. They’re snug, efficient users of space with few interior walls and large windows. This is great for taking in the view. The emphasis is on open spaces, and minimal decorative details. This can be ideal if you want to design your own dream home. Over time, you can add little personal features to truly make the house your home.
Don’t think that these are all there is when it comes to craftsman home design; there are many more styles to choose from. Get in touch with us, and we’ll walk you through the entire design process.
Tags: contemporary home designs, craftsman, dream home plans, green home, Kadtec, mountain home plans, ranch home, rustic, southwest
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