BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – GUIDANCE

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DREAM HOME PLAN OVERVIEW

"Educate.  Entertain.  Inspire.  It's all I can do on a good day.  It's all that I look for in others on their good days."  AG

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How?  Yes, how do people communicate about dream home building plans?  

It does not matter the design.  It does not matter what is to be built.  Buyers and custom house builders must communicate. 

This is not chicken-and-egg time; the builders' language rules in dream home plans. 

This website is for folks who don't know much about dream home plans and designs and commercial building design plans . . . and for those who do.    Here is where specific notions of architecture and dream home building become intellectually accessible.  Here, you can learn the what and why of building.

Here are some lists to demonstrate just how very seriously, how very important are custom home design style, space, and type to us -

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Now, before you ever contact Before The Architect, read this . . . . .

Important:  Whether you are remodeling or building new, please put the Autocad Granddad to work productively.

What's here for dream home plan drawings are examples of what you can buy from the Autocad Granddad.  The related words – explanations, insights, comments, rationales – demonstrate the thinking, the experience put to work in creating the drawings.  The ideas are for-free.  It's only the drawings that'll cost you.

DREAM HOME PLAN DESIGN Concept drawings, 

DREAM HOME PLAN DESIGN Model drawings, and

DREAM HOME PLAN CONSTRUCTION drawings.

DREAM HOME PLAN DESIGN Concept drawings:  At the earliest stage of things to be built — that's where dream home plan design Concept Drawings come in.  (architects call this "massing".)  These are the first efforts at visualizing, objectifying, get right with proportion and placement.  Dream home plan design Concept Drawings take gobs of guesswork out of planning and building.  Most building projects benefit from dream home plan Concept Drawings, and most projects pass them by.  And you wondered why building things can be so difficult!  In Concept Drawings, you'll see block shapes of what's already there, and what's to be added or changed.  No windows.  No wood.  No details and dimensions.  Just basic shapes of things done and things to come.  These are both 2d and 3d design presentations. 

DREAM HOME PLAN DESIGN Model drawings:  Model Drawings are representations of finished projects before the specifics are worked out, that is, before the dream home plan Construction Drawings.  Most often, structural additions and other major changes demand dream home plan design Model Drawings.  Autocad Granddad draws models in simple elevations, in 2d and 3d home and commercial designs.  Building professionals are used to working with 2d building design drawings.  Others – notably homeowners and business owners – often can grasp building concepts and concerns much more quickly with 3d design perspectives.   

Dream home plan construction drawings:  These are the pictures with which custom house builders and other contractors work.  These are the drawings most commonly associated with building and redesigning houses and light commercial structures.  Here we're talking about all sorts of drawings: plan views from rough to finished; interior and exterior elevations from rough to finished; cross-sections of almost anything to show how things go together; schematics of what major utilities, such as wiring, go where; and details of things necessarily to be built in a certain way to avoid confusion, work delay, or misapplication.

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These neat categories – Concept, Model, and Construction – are not always so neat categorically.  There's plenty of gray area to go around all of them.  A Concept Drawing can easily morph into a dream home plan design Model Drawing — just add a few details.  A dream home plan design Model Drawing is sometimes better off understood as a dream home plan design Concept Drawing, even when it has a lot of elements, simply on the basis that you're not sure where exactly you're going with it.  More to this room? Add that room? Not a standalone, but attached?  Not one story anymore, but two? Where will the fireplace work best?  Look best?  And dream home plan Construction Drawings of Details can be Cross-Sections at the same time, and vice versa.  A Schematic is often only a step or two away from a full-blown plan view.  Some Elevations are more easily worked as Models, even Concepts.  There are several such cross-over drawings on this website.  The moral?  It's not what you want to label it; it's what you need it to be.

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Here are odds and ends on the site, too.  There's our hero the Autocad Granddad's bio and a few of his Quotes.  There's the nuts and bolts of Getting In Touch with him, and what it'll cost you to put him and Mrs. AG to work for you.  You can read and revel in Frequently Asked Questions, or FAQs.  You can even brush up on the hundreds of Abbreviations custom home designers, draftsmen, and custom house builders use in the Lexicon to stay on the same blueprint page and get it right the first time, along with a startup, somewhat irreverent Dictionary.  And there are the requisite Links.

Here are odds and ends on the site, too.  There's our hero the Autocad Granddad's bio and a few of his Quotes.  There's the nuts and bolts of Getting In Touch with him, and what it'll cost you to put him to work for you.  You can read and revel in Frequently Asked Questions, or FAQs.  You can even brush up on the hundreds of Abbreviations home designers, draftsmen, and custom house builders use in the Lexicon to stay on the same blueprint page and get it right the first time, along with a startup, somewhat irreverent Dictionary. 

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