Building Planners' Guide to Residential Design

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Building Planners' Guide to Residential Design by Charles Talcott, Don Hepler and Paul Wallach

Now anyone can create professional quality designs for building the house of his dreams. With this step-by-step guide you can be the architect who designs the rooms, interior structure, lighting, and landscaping to fit your individual needs and tastes. Even if you can't draw a straight line, this unique do-it-yourself guide will show you how to get professional architect's results.

Written in clear, simple English, with essential technical terms fully explained, this book is the key to designing the perfect home to meet your specific needs. Nine easy to follow chapters teach you how to:

• Read basic floor plans and designs
• Determine what you need and want in your house, and keep within the framework of your budget
• Choose the best building site
• Design rooms for different functions, and decide on the best size, shape, and location of the rooms
• Position windows, doors, storage areas, fireplaces, fixtures and appliances
• Use professional design skills such as scale, dimensioning and sketching
• Alter existing home plans following a dos and don'ts system for avoiding costly pitfalls of plan alterations
• Adapt elevation styles for a consistent home design that won't have that amateurish 'tacked-on' look.

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1986

ISBN: 0070283060, 9780070283060