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BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – DREAM HOME DESIGNING BACKGROUND – UNIQUE HOME DESIGNING

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HOME PLANS DETAILS
By Before The Architect  Copyright 2003-2009

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dream HOME PLANS DETAIL
 

INTRODUCTION
 

    This dream home designer gets all choky when he’s shown other guys’ custom dream home plans details.
 

    There are the usual suspects -

        Interior elevations of bathrooms and other complex spaces

        Rough drawings of home door profiles in elevations, etc.
 

    There are on occasion the usual pretenders – not details at all, but entire-element drawings or something else entirely - notices, boilerplate

        Whole-home section drawing 

        Roof plans in home plan view

        A home door schedule – really a schedule and not a detail
 

    That’s usually it.
 

    However, when it comes to custom dream home plans details, that’s not it.
 

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What’s in a fine custom home plans detail?
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It’s a drawing most often
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Maybe dimensioned

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Maybe scaled

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Maybe annotated

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A fine home plans Detail is usually something small – from getting-your-arms- around-it and downwards in size – but not always

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A custom dream home plans Detail is something that doesn’t generally qualify in a major sheet for drawing (except, selectively, as an inset or annotation), e.g.,
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Home framing a complex partition

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A reference schematic relating several interiors or exteriors home elevations

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Section of a home exterior, concrete stair abutting a framed exterior wall, etc.

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A custom home plans Detail is something you’d better draw in order to get it done right, because either your materials and method are unusual compared to the norm or the subject itself is unusual

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A custom home plans Detail can involve a subject, but not often
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Environmental conditions

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Home interiors' stairway fire safety, etc.
 

THE CHECKLIST OF CUSTOM FINE HOME PLANS DETAILS

 

bulletHere are 25 custom dream home plans design Details, most not seen by this dream home designer elsewhere ever
bulletBefore The Architect uses these regularly, albeit rarely with most all of them in a single, given dream home plans set
bulletMany are one-of-a-kind
bulletThere’ll be more as a specific custom home designing warrants 
 

Stud Wall Reinforcement Detail for Adaptable Fine Home Design

Purpose: To fortify selected walls, particularly in bathroom design, prospectively for subsequent, potential application of grab bars without tearing up walls and other clad after closing-in

Content: Intrabay size and centerline height of blocking, sites of blocking, methods and materials for fastening

 

Rebar Laps Detail in Placed Dream Home Foundation Footing and Home Wall Design

Purpose: To hold corners, intersections, and steps as firmly as possible, especially not overloading interior inflections to fail

Content: Section in home plan view, noting rebar laps
 

Finish Masonry over Masonry Substrate Home Design Detail

Purpose: To sufficiently associate finish clad to substrate for durability

Content: Section in elevation defining material layers of substrate, often with annotations about method and options
 

Classical Order Detail in Designer Dream Home Plans

Purpose: To get an Order responsibly represented when clients are moved to really care, which is increasingly the norm in our dream home designing.   This is standard ops in this dream home designer's home plans presentation when a Classical column of any sort - in this instance, Tuscany - is designed-in.

Content: Section in home elevation, identifying parts and proportions
 

Wall Frame Detail in designer dream home plans

Purpose: To convey method and material for special conditions of wall layout, especially where walls are extensively windowed and doored, and neither the designer nor the clients want to encourage wall wibble-wobble in use, air pressure differential, etc.

Content: Section in home elevation, identifying parts, including fasteners, and dimensions
 

Trim Detail in Dream Home Design

Purpose: To define method and material specifically or in finish carpenter latitude of selected details, most often interior casings to home doors and home windows, but also baseboard – particularly base cap – staircase spindle, or baluster, layout, chair rail and cornice trim parts and association, etc.

Content: Section in home elevation, identifying parts and placement
 

Termite Shield Details

Purpose: To keep out the crawly critters

Content: Detailed text and information including Orkin.com termite identification info and info on protecting your home from these pests.

 

Stairway Study Detail in Dream Home Plans Designs

Purpose: To be sure that all, especially clients, understand the sectional profile they’ve chosen; namely, whether open above or ceilinged [Stair design and stair construction structure is often extremely difficult to get across to clients without such details]

Content: Section in home elevation, defining in table and to-scale the stair construction metrics, including landings and ceiling run-up if any
 

Stairway Headroom Dream Home Plans Design Detail

Purpose: To assure there’s not less than code compliance to stair construction headroom, especially at head landing and upper level overhangs and especially in story-and-a-half designs, and, if not, to make it so

Content: Section in home elevation, paying close attention to head landing and overhangs, especially if unusual adaptation to stair construction structure is required; dimensioned, to scale, and annotated
 

Exterior Stair Detail in Dream Home Plans Design

Purpose: To communicate the necessity of sloping both landing and stair treads and the means and method to abut steps or landing, particularly concrete structure, to exterior of perimeter frame wall, and maintaining tread slip resistance 

Content: Section in home elevation: to scale and dimensioned; checking off home elevation levels at abut to structure and at outside, upper edge of landing and stair treads relative to the interiors' home floor level; and layering of materials between steps, particularly concrete steps, and other structure
 

Stairway Frame over Framed Foundation Dream Home Design Plans Detail

Purpose: To be clear about the physical relationship – particularly on the vertical – of wall frames on abutting levels or stairs atop one another or both (the stack stair instance being a matter of considerable confusion from time to time in order to line up stairwell walls on the vertical)

Content: Home elevation in section, showing alignments on the vertical (or plan view in section, showing alignments on the horizontal), usually scaled, always annotated, being careful to define parts’ abutters and space gaps for unabraded moisture barriers or construction wiggle-room in very tightly designed spaces
 

Compared Elevation Dream Home Design Detail

Purpose: To provide a collective reference to one and all when designer home plans develop several different home elevations – landings, decks, patios, lofts, principal levels, step-ups, step-downs, exterior finish grades markers, etc.  Squeeze out doubt and misunderstanding with details such as this one relating relative differences in elevations before the walls came down.

Content: Clearly labeled and dimensioned schematic in home elevation
 

Major Wall Remodel in Dream Home Building Construction Plans

Purpose: To visualize the “after" version of a remodel where interior walls are removed of themselves or to make way for additional space, in either instance newly opened to longer views. . .Too much home design change to leave to common sense and chance.

Content: Section(s) in home elevation; scaled, dimensioned, and annotated
 

Dormer Differences Detail in Dream Home Building Construction Plans

Purpose: To visualize and, to an extent define for home construction, the physical relationship of a roof dormer either to its own parts or to proximate rooflines and interiors' space or both.   Not all dormers are created equal, even on the same home.  Detail differences in design just can't always be represented well in whole-property floor plans and elevations.

Content: Section in home elevation or isometric either in wireframe or partially shaded, defining major lines of roof eaves, roof ridge, roof overhangs, type of roof dormer ceiling layout, home window well if any, rooflines, etc.; scaled, dimensioned, and annotated
 

Dormer Trim Dream Home Design Detail

Purpose: To make sure that certain specifics about roof dormer trim are clearly expressed, e.g., physical relationship of roof dormer eaves to roof eaves, extent of facing roof overhang, recess if any, home window well physical relationship to roof dormer and surrounding rooflines, etc.

Content: Section in home elevation or isometric in wireframe or partially shaded, drawn as clearly as possible the crucial physical interrelationships of studied parts
 

Coffer Ceiling Fine Home Design Detail

Purpose: To settle on a coffer layout or optional layouts, paying particular attention to irregular corners, sizing, symmetry, and siting pendant luminaires

Content: Home plan view, scaled, dimensioned, and annotated, including as needed specifications for home light, particularly pendant luminaires, and home ceiling fan siting
 

Home Arch Detail in Fine Home Plans Design

Purpose: To convey arch type(s), springlines, and minor axes between arches of varying major axes, in order to visualize intended design of appearance, consistency or determined differences

Content: Home elevations, scaled, annotated, and dimensioned
 

Dining Area Dream Home Building Construction Plans Detail

Purpose: To get a dining table properly sited and offset and to determine latitude in dining table sizing as required (sometimes the table determines the dining space, sometimes the other way around)

Content: Home plan view, scaled, annotated, and dimensioned to identify dining table centerpoint, dining table extents, and extents of unobstructed space for diners and perimeter traffic
 

 Attic Indoor Air Quality Detail

Purpose: To be clear about the nitty-gritty of attic venting

Content: Detailed text
 

Motor Courtyard Detail

Purpose: To prospect aspects of a motor courtyard to respect the land it encompassed and the home it abutted and, to an extent, introduced

Content: Detailed guidelines in text and a heavily annotated plan view presented with concision
 

Exterior Trim Detail

Purpose: To cool the jets of an anxious Architectural Review Board.

Content: Section in elevation, scaled, dimensioned, annotated heavily.
 

Reinforced Wall

Purpose:  Design a big wall.  Open it up with a big hole for doors and windows.  See and hear it go wibble-wobble for years to come.  Not.

Content:  Section in elevation, scaled, dimensioned, annotated.
 

Finish Trim and Clad Detail

Purpose:  Communicate unequivocally the looks that you want and expect.

Content:  Specific, succinct text.
 

Stair Ceiling Comparison Detail

Purpose:  Right from the get-go, the clients couldn't fathom parallel versus open ceiling staircases until these detail drawings came in sight . . . immediate recognition.

Content: Sections in elevation, scaled, dimensioned, annotated.
 

Adaptable Wall Tiling Detail

Purpose:  Provide a durable wall tile application, preparing for the possibility of eventual accessibility.

Content: Detailed text. 

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