HOUSE DESIGN & HOUSE PLANS
TIPS & TRICKS
Throughout this website, there are plenty of webpages to focus directly on practical applications of our knowledge and experience. Here are some of them.
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 house design and construction 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 house design and so physically imposing, that the design project became one in which the house 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 residential 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 residential exteriors, not the style's dark and darker interiors. Here, the AG lays out as never before the indicators of the Craftsman Style in residential exteriors not only from a designer's point of view but also a 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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