Before The Architect - Home Building Plans: Before & After, Unique House Plans Detail

Before & After

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HOME BUILDING PLANS

BEFORE & AFTER UNIQUE HOUSE PLAN DETAILS

"They say that the devil's in the details. Hell's bells, details are all there are to good house plans well done." AG '05

WIGGLE-ROOM REMOVERS FOUND HERE

"Wiggle-room" means to AG the latitude given to contractors to design your unique house plan, that is, you get what the home building plan they want to give you. Foundation drainage specs, ceiling and exhaust fan sizes and sites, headers to their specs, doors and windows installed the way they choose, residential lighting design the way they're used to installing, gutters sized and run according to them, and so forth. Wiggle-room is what your unique house plan designer didn't design, leaving key decisions about your home building plans to whomever and whatever works at the moment. This is about unique house plan nitty-gritty of getting your home building plans right the first time.

Details - mostly home building plan aspects of smaller elements and features - and other Schedules are scattered throughout this website and published articles, as below. All remove wiggle-room.

In partially overlapping summary -

	"House Plan Schedules - Extensive, Unique Checklist" http://searchwarp.com/swa142602.htm
	"House Plan Details - Extensive, Unique Checklist" http://searchwarp.com/swa132855.htm

In expanding on residential lighting design - and, especially residential lighting design and aging eyes -

	"Residential Interior Lighting Design for Aging Eyes, Part 1: The Basics and Part 2: The Math http://searchwarp.com/swa124510.htm and http://searchwarp.com/swa124664.htm, respectively
	"Residential Interior Daylighting Design" http://searchwarp.com/swa124855.htm
	"Avoiding Light Flutter: How Ceiling Fans and Ceiling Lights Can Get Along" http://searchwarp.com/swa124855.htm

A fuller presentation of all this home building plan material is in Home Design Standards - Home Building Standards - a guidebook to unique house plans.

You may ask, “Before & After what?”

Glad you asked – working with us.

	“Before” working with us.
	“After” working with us.

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In this area of our website –

You’ll find comparisons of how Before The Architect develops unique house plans and how the other guys develop unique house plans (or good humor to take the place of nothing from the other guys).

Comparisons between Before The Architect and the others – see for yourself –

	Side-by-side comparisons when something around here compares and
	A side-by-side when something comparable cannot be found or just isn't done by the other guys. Some things that Before The Architect does appear unique and you’ll learn why.

Please note that not all these home building plans from Before The Architect require all these unique house plan detail schedules - some do, some don't, some need others. It depends - what's necessary to convey really important aspects of a unique house plans set in more detail than conveyed elsewhere in the home building plans.

	Please note, too, that not all the schedules Before The Architect can do are referenced herein under. many, many others - included in Home Design Standards - Home Building Standards - involve....
	Residential lighting interior design in a breakthrough approach created by AG to line selected science and common sense with retail environment to the ultimate benefit particularly to aging eyes
	An example of a Before The Architect-completed checklist initially presented by a local building authority having jurisdiction, the purpose to which was from the authority's vantage to make sure home building plan set submissions are complete and, from Before The Architect's point of view, to make sure that the authority's job sorting through unique house plan set detail got off to a good start and stayed on track by specific references from the checklist to plan set entries
	A schedule defining trim pieces and their specific physical association to get the look the clients' wanted
	An extensive, one-of-a-kind attic ventilation schedules to promote adequate passive and active attic venting including calculations and keys
	An environmental schedule to delineate essential design standards applied in the plan set and expected to be applied subsequently in materials and methods
	An unusual schedule of structural connectors from footing to rooftop in a seismic Zone 2B to-be-built (still subject to local engineering approval)
	Nearly a dozen-and-a-half real Detail text and drawings on, among other subjects, arches, dormers, several aspects to interior and extraordinary exterior stairway design, Classical style, concealed elevation, etc.

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In its essence, what makes Before The Architect different from the others?

Before The Architect’s principals have been both unique house plan designers and unique house builders for going on 4 decades together.

You can see it in their unique house plans work –

	Respecting owners in attentively designing safety, durability, and convenience functions into owner-desirable forms *and*
	Respecting unique house builders in builders’ own language, taking so much of designing out of contractors’ hands, and directing them to their job of home plan building without a whole lot of wiggle-room.

You get unique house plans that go way past most common house plans standards –

	It takes an extra effort to minimize ignorance, unpleasant surprise, misunderstanding and, worst, even attempt to defend against deceit. Before The Architect house plans can run 30-50 sheets.
	Common house plans standards are not especially informative or disclosive either to owners or home plan builders, leaving contractors to design for you or surprise you about immediate decisions for which you're immediately unprepared.

You hire individuals who have spent most of two working lifetimes with house plans - unique and not no unique - designing, building, remodeling, repairing, consulting.

	Generally, Before The Architect’s principals used to give away unique house plans designs to assess other ways to build or rebuild, to reckon a potential investment’s viability, to do the work they’d designed, to get the job, to explain something or other to someone or other.
	Now Before The Architect’s principals design the unique house plans, letting younger and stronger backs dig and lug and do the heavy lifting.

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