From House Plan to Dream Home

From House Plan to Dream Home

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A Great House Plan Resource

COOLhouseplans.com is a great resource for finding a great luxury house plan. With 2000 house plans that meet the design characteristics for a luxury home, you’re sure to find a great home to build. In fact, when you do find a home that you like, why not get it modified just the way you like it?

6 Steps to a Healthier Garage

Garages were originally small, simple structures designed to house and protect a car from the elements. They were always separate from the home. Today, however, garages for multiple cars are attached to houses and often are the most pronounced feature at the front of a home. more

Popular Roof Types for Residential Homes

Gable: The gable roof is a very popular type of roof. The gable roof is easy to build, sheds water well, provides for ventalation, and is applicable to a variety of house shapes and designs.

Hip: The hip roof is slightly more difficult to build than a gable roof, but is still a popular choice. It does not provide for ventalation as well as some other roof designs and increases the chance for leakage due to the hips and valleys.

Flat: A flat roof is the most economical roof to build, but does not add much to the design of most houses. It requires a "built-up roof covering rather than conventional shingles. A built-up roof consists of layers of roofing, felt, tar topped with gravel. Actually, most so-called flat roofs are pitched 1/8 to 1/2 in per foot to aid in drainage. The flat roof is popular in warmer areas of the country where wide overhangs are desirable for shade and where little or no snow falls.

Shed: A shed roof is similar to a flat roof, but has more pitch. It is frequently used for additions to existing structures or in combination with other roof styles. A built-up roof is generally required unless the roof has a pitch of over 3:12 ( three feet of rise for each 12 feet of run)

Winged Gable: The winged gable is a standard gable with each end drawing to more of a point. It serves the same purpose as the gable, just slightly different in appearance.

Mansard: The mansard roof is gaining in popularity after being used infrequently for several years. Originally it is a French design and is more difficult to build than the hip or the gable

Gambrel: The Gambrel roof is sometimes referred to as a barn roof, because this type of roof is primarily used on barns. It provides additional headroom needed for the Dutch colonial.

Dutch Hip: The Dutch hip is similar in design to the traditional hip with the exception of what looks like a gable on top. This provides for increased ventilation.

A-frame: The A-frame provides not only a roof but the walls as well. Originally, it was used for cottages, but in recent years has been applied to homes, churches, and other structures.

What makes a luxury house a luxury home

This week I will be focusing on the larger grandiose home, also known as a Luxury home. Before we scrutinize different aspects of the luxury house, we most first know what a luxury home is. In proper architectural terms, a luxury house plans will be deemed luxury according to it’s square footage. As a general rule, a home that is 3500 square feet or above, would certainly carry this the title.

Is there any one particular style of home a luxury home would categorized under?

The Cool thing about the luxury home is that it can conform to just about every home style you can think of, with the exception of small, or cabin of course. So the European home-style lover can build a luxury European home, just as the individual that is partial to the ranch home can build a luxury ranch home.

A great example of a house that really exceeds the square footage qualifications for a luxury home.



This home offers the following amenities of a luxury home

• 5 Bedrooms
• 8Bathrooms
• 6462 Sqaure Feet

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