Want to talk briefly about hiring a draftsman or designer who is not a registered Engineer or Architect. There are many very excellent designers who are very capable in training, experience and natural talent to design you a beautiful home. I want to be on the record stating that I endorse this action and think…
Let there be — DESIGN. Before Construction, before the permit drawings, before any real action in the physical world, there comes the design. This is the purely creative part of the process and, by far, the most fun. This is the period of time when dreams take form into reality, a time when the potential…
Is your home a bit obsolete? Do you need more space; perhaps another bathroom?; a larger kitchen? A new family room or porch? As home owners we have generally solved this by selling our home and looking for and buying another. The market has usually supported that. Sometimes we have purchased property and had that…
Consider that you have just had a home designed. You look at the plans and elevations, maybe a few perspectives, and struggle to fully understand what it is that you are studying. Consider how nice it would be to be able to, at your own computer, in your own home, with software that you can…
As Engineers, we get requests from people, from time to time, to stamp a set of plans that they produced. “I’ve had architectural training” is a common mantra; “anyone can draw a set of plans;” they’re just plans; a few lines.” While a can-do attitude is most admirable, (this IS America), and saving money is…
This is a subject about which I have grown passionate. Was on a very nice website the other day. It is owned by a national company that sells pre-drawn house plans. I want to comment upon many of their sales points: They cited 6 reasons why one should go with a pre-designed stock plan…