The owners have two problems with the house:

1. Visually dull curbside appeal;

2. Too small inside for them to enjoy the pleasures of home ownership and babies to come.

By the time the Autocad Granddad was first called into the unique home design plan, the owners had already started their homework on local costs of house remodeling, and had set their minds on the nature of the house additions they wanted:  on the front face,  a foyer addition small in area – about 6'x5' – to almost double their existing 6'x5' foyer, but large in height — 2 stories, in order both to improve the look of the front face; and on the back face, an addition to enlarge the kitchen area, add a master bedroom and a family room — 16'x40'.

In other words, this house will be changed dramatically — a major home remodel.  The owners have good reason to see what it might look like ahead of reconstruction.

Before any remodeling changes, let's take a unique home design Conceptual Drawing, 2D home design look at the structure to be remodeled.  These pictures show outlines in wire frame, i.e., lines drawn to outline the building to be remodeled.  (The front roofline overlaps the back line in drawings to follow, because the home building design plans were well along before Autocad Granddad was inspired to make a website to show and sell his services.  There was no gain in turning back the drawings.)                                                                                                     

Front face.               Back face. 

Now, we'll look at the same structure in 3d wire frame, i.e., showing 3d home design elements in outline. 

Front left.      

Wire frames are often optically illusory.  Distractive.  To enrich, or further objectify, the visual cues, we can mask wire framing and get a more solid sense of building structure.  Again, the same structure as before — no remodeling, now in a mass or solid presentation. 

Front left.                         Back right.    

There you have some before-any-changes exterior elevations and perspectives.  These view offer a simple, conceptual basis for custom home building  design and remodeling.

Next, come the footprints — before and after changes.  Land boundaries, decks, and the chimney chases are omitted by choice.  So are any indications of design elements and amendments, e.g., doors, windows, walls, overhangs.  In this case, you see an unadorned comparison of dwelling outlines.                                                                

Footprint, before.             Footprint, after. 

Whetted by a look at the new footprint, let's look more closely at what's been added.

--> In the front, the foyer room extension is new space, ultimately dimensioned by the constraints of windows flanking the front entrance area.  Note in the footprint, in front of the foyer room addition is a decked landing and a wide stairway construction to accommodate the split-level foyer entry.  (You'll see this decking in Unique Home Design Model Drawings.)

-->In the back, the upper-floor living area is almost doubled in this unique home design.  Seen in the 3d home designs, the posting supports the multi-room addition, the posting's cant at its footings respects the natural grade along the house face; the majority of the backside grade is at the lower floor's floor level, running up steeply about midpoint.  (Postponed construction additions to the backside include a hot tub spa at upper floor level and extensive decking.  Indeed, when we get to wall framing, we will make a door frame to the hot tub spa area, and then wallboard it over for later rediscovery.  Along with the postponed side addition of a garage; early additions will be well balanced-out later on.)

Herewith, the room additions along with the existing, in 2D home designs.  (In some 2D home design drawings, you can see through to the other end of the structure, and it can disorient.  For example, in the Front drawing, four vertical lines appear at the lower-floor level.  These lines are the simple representations of the posts supporting the backside addition.  Or in the Back drawing, the foyer room addition easily confuses the eye.)                                                                                                       

Front.                         Left.                        Back. 

Then, in 3d home design, with the existing structure masked and the room additions wire framed.                                                                                         

Front left.                     Back right.   

Finally, let's mask old and new in three dimensions for a sense of what the structure will look like when completed.

Front left.                     Back right. 

CONCLUSION.

These unique home design Concept Drawings didn't happen all at once.  The Colonial home designs are the end-result of several passes by the owners and the Autocad Granddad to get what the owners wanted out of their house additions – room addition by room addition – in terms of look and use and roughly estimated cost.  

From a consulting and Autocad drawing standpoint, there are about 15 hours of billable time to get this far (at a time when the AG would have been billing by the hour), split about 40/60, consulting/drawing.  Subsequent graphics work took a few hours more.  Unique home design Concept Drawing time would have been longer had the owners not previously talked over between them not only what space they wanted in the house, but also what space they needed.

The Autocad 2006 shocker in this page of unique home design Concept Drawings is that all 26 home plan design pictures came from a single drafting, one basic 3d home design drawing.

Now, we can move on to Unique Home Design Model Drawings, the next step.

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