BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – HOME DESIGNING BACKGROUND – PRESS/MEDIA
Home Design and Home Building & Home Design Standards - new 165-page E-book [IN 2008, THE E-BOOK BROKE 800 PAGES]
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Cumming, GA. October 7, 2004. “Home Design Standards-Home Building Standards” 4Q04 edition by Before The Architect is a 165-page e-book, including nearly 24 inset illustrations. This is a quarterly publication.
“It’s grown up in 2 years from a couple dozen manuscript pages to a substantial, one-of-a-kind home designing and home building guide,” said a Before The Architect principal recently in interview.
“’Quality by planning,’ is how an engineer and quality home builder mentor describes it,” said the Before The Architect spokesman. “Our ‘Home Design Standards-Home Building Standards’ aims at owners who want a new home or major home remodel designed and built better and aims at home designers and home builders who want first-class home plans and better-built homes.”
This e-book is written in home plan style – clear and comprehensive – with hundreds and hundreds of specifications and stipulations. It addresses common home design and home building issues including home plan layout, jobsite conduct, and quality stick-built standards for materials, foundation, framing, electrical wiring, plumbing, venting, HVAC, and finishing. Additionally, there are sections on suggested readings and a bonus 10 pages on fastening standards to wood, wallboard, new preservative-treated woods, and more. There’s even a handy reference to third-party materials and testing standards of the ASTM, UL, etc.
What makes this e-book different? “Well, for starters, please show me what you think is comparable. Truly, I think there’s nothing else like it available,” said the spokesman for Before The Architect. “It bridges professional disciplines of home design and home building for safety, durability, and convenience. It talks in applied, no-nonsense language to home buyers, home designers, and home builders. To boot, it is packed with my pithy comments on and happy-to-help asides supporting many of the entries – background based on nearly 4 decades of experience at the granite knees of both home design and home building. Taking the both of us, that’s going-on a century.”
He went on, “We use it every day in our work. I literally copy sections of the e-book right onto the home drawing board, and adapt those selections to focus specifically on our work at hand. Our specs can run to 6 big sheets and more of definitive text on materials and methods; our consulting and designs reflect our printed standards. We can take a whole lot of wiggle-room out of builders’ work. Otherwise, they’re out there home designing when they should be building while buyers haven’t a clue about what, how, and why things are built the way they are. It’s tough enough to build well, without home designing on the fly. It’s tough enough to earn the money to buy and own the new-build or bigtime remodel, so why practically give it away in blind hopes you get the home design and home building that you think you ought to.”
From Before The Architect, “Home Design Standards-Home Building Standards” is a download .pdf for $29.95 and a mailed hardcopy for $34.95. Serious home designers can get a Word .doc file of the e-book for $99.95. Payment can be by check or PayPal.
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Before The Architect consults on, designs, and draws home plans nationwide. Ralph & Jean Pressel, Principals. Website: http://www.beforethearchitect.com. Other pubs: “How-to Design Curved Stairs, in 2-D”.
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