Whether you're looking to design a new house or wanting to play with the furniture layout in your current house, creating room layouts is a fun thing to do and an important step in understanding the...
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The house on a hill. It has great connotations: great views; overlooking your lands; impressive when seen from below. If your wanting to build a house atop a hill or on a sloping site it's...
One of the biggest concerns in designing a new home is making mistakes you'll have to live with if you don't notice them beforehand. Below are 25 common design mistakes for houses. I'm...
North America is unique compared to most of the world because their houses are built using light-weight wood framing as opposed to masonry or concrete. Houses in the U.S. are built of wood due to...
Drawing plans by hand is the simplest means of creating something that describes your ideas into a format you can share with others. Plans are the universal format to discuss houses and buildings,...
Floor plans are the primary representation of a house. Plans are used to describe how spaces are positioned in relation to each other, the proportions and sizes of the spaces, and the components that...