BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – DREAM HOME DESIGNING BACKGROUND – UNIQUE HOME DESIGNING
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HOME PLANS DETAILS
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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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THE CHECKLIST OF CUSTOM FINE HOME PLANS DETAILS
Here are 25 custom dream home plans design Details, most not seen by this
dream home designer elsewhere ever
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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
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
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
Purpose: To cool the jets of an anxious Architectural Review Board.
Content: Section in elevation, scaled, dimensioned,
annotated heavily.
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.
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.
Purpose: Provide a durable wall tile application, preparing for the possibility of eventual accessibility.
Content: Detailed text.
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