Custom Construction:
For those of you that have the space , a room addition is a great concept to increase your living space, add value and comfort to your property. Whether your adding a bedroom, living room, family room or guest room, you are trying to reinvent the character of your existing space. Any one who can evaluate and get familiarize with limitations such as city or county building and zoning regulations, budget, desire for creating and perhaps capturing more lights, comfort and value in addition to providing more upscale space, need to understand that custom construction becomes an obvious choice.
Planning
As you are developing your building plan, you need to have a great sense of the way you want to define your new living space. After you finalize your design either by your own definition or through consultation with an architect or interior designer, you should decide on maintaining the traditional or contemporary look by carefully analyzing both the exterior elevation in reference to location of interior space. Then you need to plan and schedule your preliminary approval, construction drawings, final approval and pulling permits. (Continue below)
Design & Build
There are many challenges that you may experience in any type of addition, problems such as structural, electrical, plumbing, roof line, existing chimneys, existing foundation that may need to consider prior to final design. By hiring an experience and knowledgeable architect ,engineer or interior designer you can be rest assured that they will take care of all your addition details and come up with construction drawing to help you build your new space. Drawings should include details of elevation, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, structural, interior finishes such as, paint colors, carpet, tiles, doors, windows, lighting and window covering.The problem is some homes have uninteresting layout or flow, but have charming elements that worth retaining rather than demolishing. Your designer should be able to match your style
with your interest. For example, things like location of windows, type of windows, size of addition, architectural look, interior finishes, carpet, hardwood floor, lighting system, skylights and so on. (Continue top right)
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Wish list
In your initial consultation with your designer, it's important that you create good and clear wish list. Things that are important to you, things that you need to have in your new space. It is also crucial that you be able to communicate with your designer at this stage as what you really like to achieve, what your desires are, your time frame and understanding of your budget.
Try
to keep finish details simple, but elegant. Try to devise a floor plan that opens up cramped spaces, by adding high ceiling and lots of light to help small places more spacious. The ceiling plan through out the house is important part of design strategy. Try to pay attention to all details like, molding and caseworks, they blend your place into a pleasant environment. For example MDF (Medium Density Fiberboard) is a great natural choice for trims, its easy to trim and dimensionally stable, but creates lot of dust and is heavy to carry around when you work with it. Look at some design magazines, get ideas from other designers and try to add them to your wish list then communicate that with your designer.
Colors
Color defines personality. The advantage of a colorful home with brightly painted colors represent different feeling like, warm, bold, playful, overpowering, excitement or subtle. Choosing a combination of right colors and trims is very important to the final finish of your project. Remember an addition has to fit in, it must add to original, not just to be added to it. Addition has to be appropriate to the house and shows respect to the homeowner.
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