“Lot (fate) cannot be blot” goes a famous saying. I am not an expert on fate but I can tell you with conviction that property lots, if chosen with care, won’t require being blotted. On the other hand, they would add to your sense of accomplishing something. Let me share with you a few tips here- after all, prospective homeowners can do with any amount of advice. They love it.
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elegant home design Archives - Page 14
10 Avoidable Floor Plan Mistakes
Here, in my opinion, are 10 floor plan mistakes which homeowners are prone to make. Of course, there can be kind exceptions to the rule but these are the ones I have invariably observed in my professional years.
Insights into Housing Design Using Environmental Psychology
Winston Churchill couldn’t match Mark Twain but he could match almost anyone else with his razor-sharp wit and his wise leanings. Think twice, may be thrice about this sentence “We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.” What is there in it which arrests us, completely soaks us and asks us to initiate introspection into the concept of “person-environment fit”?
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Maximising The Benefits Of Sunlight For Your Home
If you aren’t new to the planet earth, you already know Mr Sun and his beloved Miss Rosie Sunshine. Welcome the ‘little miss’ and she will bless you with sheer profundity of warmth.
There is a definite reason why designers chew carefully on the orientation of a home. After all, they want to be doubly convinced that homes make maximum use of the Sun. Read More
Three More Major Home Design Mistakes
Earlier I wrote an earlier article about three cardinal sins of home design. Here, I want to touch upon 3 more home design mistakes which should be avoided at any rate. Expecting that my readers have already gone through the previous article, I would number these mistakes as 4,5, and 6.
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Avoid these three major home design mistakes
“A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines”. Home design is there to stay unless you have enough in the kitty to demolish and re-establish several times. Thus, you must not indulge in home design mistakes, especially those which are avoidable.
Let me take you through three errors which should never occur and yet keep occurring. Read More
The True Value of Good Home Design
“Good design” was a notable absentee among the list of must-haves which a home buyer or a developer prepared in the last decade. It is only befitting that ‘good home design” has got its place at the very top of the list today.
There is no doubting the need for strategic location, high capital growth, and council approvals but good design is another key aspect which buyers and builders both factor in while buying or building a home today.
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Minimise The Risks Of Your Home Building Project
Home building projects entail various kinds of development costs. There is immeasurable satisfaction in building your own home under the Sun but you must also be aware of the traps in the process. Let me take this opportunity to discuss what development stage pitfalls you must be wary of when you decide to design and build a house.
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