CUSTOM HOME DESIGN & CUSTOM HOME PLANS, TIPS & TRICKS
Home Design Standards-Home Building Standards: (serious) Tips & Tricks for building and remodeling homes better. Better than what? Better than you'll get from anywhere else the AG's laid eyes on. These are the AG's and Mrs. AG's pearls of wisdom in home design and home building that they've lived and learned. Some pearls come from codes not always respected to no good end. Some pearls come from the literature - seminal works and periodical publications. Some pearls come from been-there, done-that and finally got it right.
Circular Stair Layout. Stair layout demands conformance to rules which aren't always easy to apply. This goes triple for curved stairs, or nonlinear stairs. Herein, the AG shares his own client-based experience in laying out stairs so important to the home design and so physically imposing, that the house design project became one in which the home was designed around the stairs themselves.
Roof Design Tips & Tricks. Whether you're working on your first rooflines or roof design is a way of life for you, chances are excellent that you'll find something eminently useful in the tutorial.
Autocad Tips and Tricks straight from the old AG's desktop. How he does it, and what he does it with.
How-to understand home design today. Here you get the essentials: an historical perspective; a realtime overview.
The markings of Craftsman Style. Call it by another name - Arts & Crafts, Bungalow Style, etc. - lots of folks find the Craftsman Style appealing. Almost all this appeal respects home exteriors, not the style's dark and darker interiors. Here, the AG lays out as never before the indicators of the Craftsman Style in home exteriors not only from a home designer's point of view but also a home builder's point of view.
Basement buildouts, the true story. This is a private collection of how to get it right and how to screw it up.
What you didn't know about dog house dormers. No kidding.
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