Elegant Simplicity
Elegant Simplicity
One of the biggest challenges and expense you will have in your life is having a home built for you.
This process, and your new home, can be very rewarding and something of great pride.
A vital decision is whether to choose a custom designed home or a project home.
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Families generally do a lot of good research when planning their new home. It is essential that you bring along all the ideas that you have into the design of your home floor plan. This includes elements that you have either decided upon or are interested in for your family’s needs now and into the future.
The best strategy to ensure you achieve a great floor plan is to maintain an open mind when discussing your ideas with your designer. Here are my seven top tips that I usually consider when looking at home floor plan design.
The best home designs are the ones that grow with your family. Anticipating your family’s needs ahead of time will help you arrive at a great home design. A solid home design is a fabulous investment. It will also help you save on renovation costs in the future.
There are key elements to designing a family home. If you take these into consideration in your extension and renovation design, you and your family will be able to enjoy your home at present and even as you grow and change.
It is every good home designer’s goal to design a home that’s for today, tomorrow and the future.
A conservatory and sunroom are structurally quite different yet similar in that they bring sunlight into the home.
A conservatory is very popular in Europe and especially in England. Whereas a sunroom is an Australian and North American phenomenon.
In our Australian climate of mild winters and hot summers, there are very few opportunities to have a conservatory. This is mostly due to excessive heat.
If you live in a cold-climate highland town or rural area in Australia, you may consider a conservatory. As long as you have the space. In metropolitan Northern Sydney, you are most likely to find sunrooms in homes that have the ideal northly aspect to accommodate them.
Let’s take a closer look at their respective histories, similarities and differences.
Many homeowners have faced this dilemma, “It all looked good till I moved in and now it just doesn’t work. Where have I made mistakes?”
The most likely answer is the floor plan!
Irrespective of whether you are house hunting or sitting with your home designer contemplating your renovations or new house plans, you must give this aspect of home design some thoughtful consideration.
I have lined up for you 18 of the most avoidable mistakes you can commit with your floor plan. This includes that one single mistake that will make the biggest difference to living in your home. Read along to know about it and avoid this right from the start.
An efficient way to gain more floor area and living space to accommodate your growing family’s needs is by adding a second storey to your home. This is especially the case if your property already extends to the boundary set-back lines.
Adding an additional floor to your home can really open-up your floor plan. It also lets you maximise space and tends to capture much better views.
Find out what significant issues you should be aware of before proceeding.
When building a house or adding an extension to your existing home, you may excitedly think about all sorts of things — the theme, the fixtures you want or simply the extra living quality. But it is very rare that people think about the shadows in home design. Shadows that their new home or home extension may create.
For me (and you), shadows in home design play a critical role in every building and renovation project. Let me explain why and give you a few tips to keep your neighbours as friends.
Your home is a very important place – much more than just the place where you eat and sleep.
Homes should do more than just reflect your design aesthetic, or likes and dislikes. It should address your personal and practical needs. It must be functional as it is beautiful–and that’s easier said than done.
In my experience there are three common fundamental design problems in Sydney homes today. Let me share them with you and elaborate on how I tend to go about fixing each.
