Planning an addition or expansion to your house or property? Renovating? Follow the solid and fundamental rule of the building trades that no addition should be planned, implemented or started before the entire house or property has been studied.
All in all, and overall as a truism that a good addition should revitalize all areas of your present home and overall make living more comfortable and indeed enjoyable.
First things first.
Make an inspection trip throughout your home or property.
List your comments on a piece of paper, notebook or a document in an office program on your computer or laptop.
In bedroom areas make notes about the adequacy of closets, room for children to play or students study, play areas, amount of floor space, furniture needs, and window and lighting fixtures.
Add anything else to your list and notes that you consider relevant or timely.
As well check the bath while you are in the bedroom areas.
Next in line take in to consideration and consider what might be called "secondary "shortcomings, which might not come to mind immediately.
These secondary shortcomings, if anticipated by planning and foresight, can usually be overcome if not solved, if time and attention is taken with thorough overall planning and indeed sometimes what might be considered "work a round".
Secondary impediments in initial construction or layout can be overcome, and even worked with in the construction or addition planning processes to end up with a whole that is even nicer than its parts.
Its certainly a challenge to work with preexisting layouts or features or an architectural layout that in its time - say the 50s or 1960s was avant-garde but now is rather dated or even hardly functional.
As examples consider that you can often plan a whole wall of closets when you change interior walls.
This can be done successfully by a good and thorough planner - even with the help of an architectural drawing - all with very little cost and overall loss of floor space.
Indeed a new front entry that is more dramatic and serviceable can be a successful byproduct of your rearrangement of interior space and spaces..
Also a different placement of interior doorways could eliminate existing traffic jams in your home or residence and as well aid convenience and appearance.
Pleasant and enjoyable planning on your home or property upgrade, renovations or additions.
All in all, and overall as a truism that a good addition should revitalize all areas of your present home and overall make living more comfortable and indeed enjoyable.
First things first.
Make an inspection trip throughout your home or property.
List your comments on a piece of paper, notebook or a document in an office program on your computer or laptop.
In bedroom areas make notes about the adequacy of closets, room for children to play or students study, play areas, amount of floor space, furniture needs, and window and lighting fixtures.
Add anything else to your list and notes that you consider relevant or timely.
As well check the bath while you are in the bedroom areas.
Next in line take in to consideration and consider what might be called "secondary "shortcomings, which might not come to mind immediately.
These secondary shortcomings, if anticipated by planning and foresight, can usually be overcome if not solved, if time and attention is taken with thorough overall planning and indeed sometimes what might be considered "work a round".
Secondary impediments in initial construction or layout can be overcome, and even worked with in the construction or addition planning processes to end up with a whole that is even nicer than its parts.
Its certainly a challenge to work with preexisting layouts or features or an architectural layout that in its time - say the 50s or 1960s was avant-garde but now is rather dated or even hardly functional.
As examples consider that you can often plan a whole wall of closets when you change interior walls.
This can be done successfully by a good and thorough planner - even with the help of an architectural drawing - all with very little cost and overall loss of floor space.
Indeed a new front entry that is more dramatic and serviceable can be a successful byproduct of your rearrangement of interior space and spaces..
Also a different placement of interior doorways could eliminate existing traffic jams in your home or residence and as well aid convenience and appearance.
Pleasant and enjoyable planning on your home or property upgrade, renovations or additions.