Concepts
We encourage the client to be an active participant in the design of their new home. Our job is to bring out your best ideas and highest priorities, to organize them and to facilitate your vision of your dream home. A well designed home fits the site and the needs of the client while minimizing hindsight and second-guessing.
We'll ask you to clip magazines, collect images, and to remember favorite places and rooms. These clues will let us see and understand your vision of a home and landscape. We have a large library of images plus our previous designs that can be reference for your project. We enjoy talking to prospective clients. Here's some ideas and concepts we'll discuss at our first meeting.
Requirements
- Rooms
- Bedrooms
- Living Spaces
- Primary Residence
- 4 Seasons
- Vacation
- Transitional home
- Lifetime Home
- 5 Year Plan
Site
- Unique Amenities
- Views
- Privacy
- Solar Orientation
- Slopes and Grades
- Drainage
- Restrictions
- Zoning
- Wetlands
- Shoreline Issues
- Septic Sites
- Utility Locations
Wish List
- Lifestyle
- Unique Features
- Size
- Privacy
- Linking Spaces
- Pattern of Living
- Entertaining
- Family Patterns
- Exterior Materials
- Interior Materials
- Interior Furnishing
- Existing/New
Reality List
- Project Budget
- Site Cost
- Site Development
- Building Budget
- Design Process Time
- Construction Time
- Occupancy Date
- Architect Services Budget
- Previous Building Experiences
Recommended Source Books
- The Not So Big House
- by Sarah Susanka, Kira Obolensky
- The Place of Houses
- by Charles Willard Moore, Donlyn Lyndon, Gerald Allen
- A House for My Mother
- by Beth Dunlop
- New Cottage Home
- by Jim Toplin
- The New Family Home
- by Jim Toplin