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How to Design Your Self-Build "Easy
Peasy" Steps to Self Build Design
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Design Software for Your Computer "Easy Peasy" Steps to your 'Self Build' Green Dream Home With Benfield ATT's new homes it's easy to make changes to the design before the architectural plans and elevations have been engineered and the special structural timbers precision cut to fit your specification. Our professional staff can help with the process of making these changes to any floor design. Or, you may wish to design your dream home and create your own house plans from scratch, in which case we are ready and willing to help with this process as well. Trying Out a Modern Architectural Software Package You may also wish to try out one of the many house design software packages that we have available to help you become the designer of your own new dream home, room in the roof loft conversion, or home extension. Prices have dropped considerably over the years for this type of software, and the skills required to use them have become easier to learn. Now, anyone with the patience to learn them can achieve quite impressive results in a few hours. Additionally, most of these software packages offer 3D views of your home design, helping you really convey how you want your dream home, renovations, or extension to look when built and occupied.
Or Using Simple Old Fashioned, Pencil and Paper! If talk about computer aided design (CAD) software seems daunting, simply just try sketching your home with good, old fashioned pencil and paper. We have provided ‘How to Design Your Dream Home’ guidelines below. Your Guide to Design - a Starting Point If you are considering designing your home from scratch, or making alterations to any of our standard home designs, please keep in mind the following information. If you use this guide to help you create a VERY rough preliminary sketch or doodle, this will provide us with a starting point to help us better understand your thoughts and house design ideas . Begin with Your 'Bubble' 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, "Bed" for bedroom, "L" for living room, "C" for Conservatory, "S" for Sun Lounge, "U" for utility room, "D" for dining room, etc.. Now play around with the 'bubble' shapes. With this 'bubble' technique you can create a very good sketch of the relationship you want between the different spaces in your new dream home. 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.
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 your dream home's floor plans. Take some time to look over some of our pattern book example home plans. Let these give you a better understanding of how each floor is meant to look. Don't worry too much about the dimensions, so long as the rooms look reasonably in proportion to each other. Then write in some of the sizes you want each room to be
Now you have something resembling a rough floor plan and its time to mark on some of sizes you'd like your rooms to be. You should also indicate the location and size of windows, French doors, patio doors, and external doors that you want to be included. It is not necessary to mark on every measurement, just the widths and depths will suffice. However, do make sure you write in the overall width and depth of each floor. This is also a good time to do a rough sketch of how you would like each elevation to look. What
To Do Next You can e-mail these to us at:- or Fax:them to +44 (0)1291 437 050 or Post them to:- Benfield ATT Ltd
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Knowledge ... for the asking Think Timber Frame Homes - think Custom Homes - think self-build Benfield ATT. If you have any questions or queries regarding any aspect of our eco-friendly houses, Timber Framed Houses, Timber Structures, Timber Engineering, Timber System Building Solutions or the wide range of timber frame houses, Schools, Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Hotels, Leisure Lodges, Community and Village Halls, or other buildings we provide, then please feel free to contact us by either calling the number on the site or emailing us. "Easy Peasy" Steps to Self Build Design Architectural Design Software for Your Computer Pencil & Paper Your Design Guide Begin with Your Bubble Change Bubble to Rooms Adding Dimensions What To Do Next All the Information & Help You Need Superior Knowledge Remember Wherever you are ... Whatever you need .... 'Better Build Benfield' "... the sustainable way to build ..."
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