BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – HOME DRAWING
HOME DESIGNER FLOOR PLANS
Basement Remodeling
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You can visit this basement remodeling in other ways by visiting —
Cross-Section Home Drawing, Carpentry Plans, Coffer Ceiling
Detail Home Drawing, Carpentry Plans, Ceiling Coffer
Schematics, Household Electrical Wiring Diagram
And,
Model Home Drawing, Basement Remodeling.
It would also further your understanding of basement remodeling to read the AG's selective overview on the subject —
Model Drawing, Basement Remodeling Tutorial.
What's important for lighting is emphasized in these basement designs. The spaces are dimensioned and the sizes of things, e.g., a table, the doors, the kitchenette are noted. Known task areas and focus areas are pointed out. Obstructions, e.g., the coffers and doors, are included for consideration. The abutting of things, their proximity is defined as best can be done this early in the process of home designing. The trained eye can easily spot problem spaces and opportunity spaces from these views alone. Can you? The Autocad Granddad will help you along.
The three areas of basement remodeling are addressed individually. This approach to room addition building plans gives us a chance to get up close to see what's going on and where.
Let's look at the kitchenette and bath areas for starters in these early-version basement design home drawing.
The surprise to this view is all the leftover space in the kitchenette area. Wonderful! Home designing to be done.
We must arrive at a clear purpose to the open space, in order to light it – and possibly amend its structure – before the hard ceiling goes in. Yes, a hard ceiling. Now can you reckon the intensity in the Autocad Granddad's pursuit of the right lighting right the first time? With a suspended ceiling, you can change out and shift around with, at most, minor upset. But not with a hard ceiling.
The other home designing concern raised elsewhere in regard to this space was the line-of-sight to the bog. The appearance is much tamer than imagined and expected. The off-center physical relationship to the bath door pleases the Autocad Granddad. Still, we can obscure that view more, if the owners choose.
On to the entertainment area home designing. (Really, this term gets to the AG. Entertainment area. Entertainment room. Seems to the old guy that functions morph in today's home design world. Entertainment room designing is really home designing a family room addition to physically emphasize a big TV. The home design issues are the same in either case, and the latter is simply a matter of physically orientation.)
To a large extent in this space, the coffers will direct the lighting by site, style, and size of the coffers themselves. More coffer ceiling? Home designwise, no problem. Structurally, no problem. We're down to style, time, and money.
And the extraordinarily elongated space to the room! How to lay it out? Spaces to define. Illumination to select. Can you see a quiet corner? Notice the imbalance to the long walls: on the one side, all cased opening and double doors; on the other, continuity punctuated by only two small windows. There's only about 8'-0" of all on the right side, and that wall is split about evenly in two. Challenges abound.
As for the sewing area . . .
Home design complexity, thy name is the sewing room. The lighting expert's job is easiest in here: the spaces are already fairly well staked out; what goes where is generally understood. We're only confronted with tactics — the "what" and "how" of it, i.e., what materials (fixtures and bulbs and rings and filters and what-all) to use, and how to use them, i.e., where to site them, how many to apply, etc.
From these three simple basement design home drawing alone, you can grasp the power of plan views to feed the mind the wherewithal to visualize, to conceive of that over which to ponder and prevail.
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