Step 1: - House Design Bubbles!
Believe it or not this is how many Architects learn to design. On a blank piece of paper, mark North, South, East, and West along the four sides. Then draw bubble shapes for all the major living spaces. Identify each room e.g. "K" for kitchen, "B" for bathroom "L" for living room, etc.
Now play around with the 'bubble' design. Ok so your drawing doesn’t look much like a house design yet but this is a great way to start thinking about the relationship between the rooms without getting too bogged down with the final design.
It can help if you also think about which direction you would like these living spaces to face. For example, if you want the morning sunrise to stream into your kitchen it should have windows that face towards the east.
Step 2: - Make the Bubbles square! Your house design starts to take shape
When you have a good idea of how you want all of the living spaces in your home to interrelate with one another, change your 'bubbles' so that they are more representative of a house design. Square them up and you will start to get something that looks like a floor plan.
It may be useful at this point to look at a few house plans and think about how each room is used in relation to the next - you don’t want your dining room on the opposite side of your house to your kitchen!
Don't worry too much about the dimensions, so long as the rooms look reasonably in proportion to each other.
Step 3 – Design & plan your room sizes
Now you have something resembling a rough floor plan it is time to mark on some of sizes you'd like your rooms to be. At this point you should also indicate the location and size of windows, French doors, patio doors, and external doors that you want to be included.
This is also a good time to do a rough sketch of how you would like each elevation to look.
Fantastic! You now have a really clear idea of what you want and guess what? You’ve drawn your very own house design. Of course this is just the first step towards your new home but what a great start!
Now you’ve got a starting point it is worth getting them drawn up by a professional. This will allow you to make design changes far more easily once you have spoken to your Local Planning Authority.
Send your sketches to the timbertecs team and we will turn them into a set of electronic drawings for just £245*
* Please note that the drawings will be an exact copy of what you send us in an electronic format. No changes will be made without additional charges.
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