Posts Tagged ‘small home design’

Design Your Own Home

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

When you want to design your own home, what’s the first thing that pops into your head? Probably a good architect; after all, you generally need one to do the layout of your custom home design, draw up the blue prints, and get the place looking just the way you want. While an architect is key to helping you design your own home, he or she is not the first or last step in the design process. Whatever type of home design you are looking to create, you need a qualified engineer to help you in every aspect of your home’s creation.

First off, when you start unique home designs, you have to settle on a style of architecture. Do you want something classic – a nice Tuscan home design, maybe early Colonial? Maybe a nice contemporary home design or Spanish home design is what you’d like. Maybe you want that luxury home design that you’ve always been dreaming of, or an eco-friendly house with solar power. Well, it doesn’t matter if you want to look at coastal home designs or rustic mountain home plans; KADTEC can take your dream home from concept to turn of the key.

Once you decide on the style for your home design, you need to consider the size. How much home can you truly afford, and this is an important point. Look at the state of the economy and banking system just now; the last thing you want to do is design your own home that’s too big for you to afford. So, sometimes it’s best to go with small home designs that you can afford, and layout the floorplan such that you can add to it later. No matter the size of your home design, our skilled design staff are experts at using 3D home design software. They can create a variety of home designs for you to consider, tweak, and settle on.

If you like the idea of some eco-friendly landscaping; some plants that require minimal water and fertilizer to thrive, we can help with that. Another thing that many people want to consider is a green home design. We can incorporate solar power, biofuels, and any other alternative home design methods and materials you want to make use of.

Many people think only an architect can create the plans for their dream home, but that’s not the case. Very often, a qualified Civil Engineer can help you design your own home. Also, you often need a structural engineer to sign and seal the plans if your home design incorporates a steep slope and/or a retaining wall. No matter the permitting process, KADTEC can help you through the paperwork, the permit fees, and all the necessary calculations involved in helping you design your own home.

Small Home Plans

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.

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