Home Design

Matching your house to your lifestyle begins with an exploration of your needs and wants. Most home designers will have some type of "discovery process" that will help identify the basics for your home design. It will start with the configuration of your lot and proceed through items such as privacy requirements, work areas, outdoor spaces, etc. Although this process is critical to your project, it rarely drills down enough to transform your design into a home that will serve your needs for a lifetime.

Here are two keys of good home design that must be addressed up-front: a) assessing the homeowner's current needs; and, b) anticipating the future needs of people living in the home. Before you say "Yeah, yeah...I've heard this all before!" let's take a closer look at what "current needs" entail.

Almost all "discovery processes" used by home designers focus on the use and space requirements of the rooms in the house. This is good, but too little attention is given to the personal needs of the people actually living in the home. Without performing a comprehensive assessment of the client's functional abilities, identifying areas of the home where modifications are necessary is often overlooked.

Home Design

Matching your house to your lifestyle begins with an exploration of your needs and wants. Most home designers will have some type of "discovery process" that will help identify the basics for your home design. It will start with the configuration of your lot and proceed through items such as privacy requirements, work areas, outdoor spaces, etc. Although this process is critical to your project, it rarely drills down enough to transform your design into a home that will serve your needs for a lifetime.

Here are two keys of good home design that must be addressed up-front: a) assessing the homeowner's current needs; and, b) anticipating the future needs of people living in the home. Before you say "Yeah, yeah...I've heard this all before!" let's take a closer look at what "current needs" entail.

Almost all "discovery processes" used by home designers focus on the use and space requirements of the rooms in the house. This is good, but too little attention is given to the personal needs of the people actually living in the home. Without performing a comprehensive assessment of the client's functional abilities, identifying areas of the home where modifications are necessary is often overlooked.

Small Home Design

Our inventory of the small designs of house (which we define as houses in less the sf of 1.800 of alive space) continues to develop, just as made our collection of small plans of fuselage and small plans of house. We work now with a certain number of architects who are known to create small exceptional designs at the house. The small designs at the house can be ideal for people on a tightened budget, or which it need less space than their current house provides. A thing that all our small house envisages have in common is an effectiveness of the space, which often means plan of open space.

Small Home Design

Small Home Design

Design House Brings Green to Misa

Started by David Wax and his partner Ben Uyeda, FreeGreen is making green home designs free for everyone. 2005's Solar Decathlon blew us away, but we are fascinated by the amazing Solar House from Cornell University. This team brought home a beautiful zero-energy to the mall in Washington, DC, and has just launched ZeroEnergy Design, home design firm focused on zero-energy design. Continuing their momentum as green home design teacher, two of the Cornell Solar Decathlon team has just launched a new effort that aims to bring green design to the masses through a special innovative business model called FreeGreen.

FreeGreen provides a selection of green home design for free, with a variety of styles from traditional to modern. While the basic design for free, homeowners can take the process further and customize their designs with the cost (and very reasonable) extra. The cost of the design process, and free house plan, kept to a minimum through partnerships between FreeGreen and green building products manufacturer - paid placement from product manufacturers.

As homeowners consult with FreeGreen to design customized, they are introduced to healthy, energy efficient, sustainable products that sponsor FreeGreen's eco-companies. This is a collaborative win-win-win that introduces people to the principles of green building and products and allows consumers on any budget to have a custom-designed, green home.

In the end, FreeGreen is about providing people with options and knowledge to make decisions. Green building products are widely available, but sorting through various options, or even know where to look, is a daunting task for most new homeowners. Freegreen solving this problem by offering a very good green building consulting with little cost to the consumer. According to founder, "is the goal at FreeGreen not produce environmentally friendly home possible but rather to provide a variety of different home plans that allow people to create homes to suit their lifestyles in a responsible and fair."

FreeGreen launched this month began with several great designs including our favorite, The Loft Suburban, modern home suitable for all climates. Marked with an open floor plan and loft ceiling space, this design will be available in various sizes to meet a lot of lifestyle and landscape.

We think FreeGreen is a great idea and a wonderful way to bring information, innovation and green design options for everyone - We are very excited to announce the launch of FreeGreen "because green design should be accessible to all." [Via]

The Beauty of The White House

The Beauty of The White House

The Beauty of The White House

The Beauty of The White House

Clean your house white floors, many houses in the world wearing a red floor model suitable for large or small house. What should you do if your house white floor you should always keep the floor clean of dirt and dust, as if your child playing on the floor clean. You should always keep your house clean look that appears clean and comfortable for your family

House with Large Glass Batches at The Forest Edge

Villa Nielsen is designed by Willa Nordic. It’s located at the forest edge and features large glass batches that not only frame awesome nature views from the inside but also grants the house a majestic look. The dramatic exterior also features generous terraces that help to catch as much Nordic light as possible. The golden brown color theme blends very well with the nature that surrounds the house. The interior continue the theme but with addition more modern white color. Thanks to that it feels very cozy and classic but looks as a modern one. It’s always filled with natural light that highlight stylish furniture. During summers the boundaries between indoors and outdoors disappear and the family is able to enjoy holiday-like lifestyle.

Modern and Clean Dream Family House Design

This stunning house is designed by Willa Nordic for Turo family. They created the house with using interesting materials and their combinations. It become a house of dreams for the family with great views of the lake near by. Even though it is designed in modern and clean style, natural materials makes the place cozy as inside as outside. The raw concrete alternate with natural wood everywhere in the interior and their combination looks quite interesting. The furniture is relatively simple and adds minimalist touch to the interior. Although there is everything necessary for comfortable living.