Archive for July, 2009

House Plans, Floor Plans, Home Plans: What Are They?

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

Custom House Plans, Luxury Residential Designs:

What Do They Mean?  What Are House Plans? What Is It That Your Residential Architect Actually Creates?

There is a lot of slang used to describe what it is your architect creates for your home.  Some people refer to them simply as “plans.”  Others say floor plans or house plans.  Rarely does anyone say what the legal description is: Schematic Design, Design Development & Construction Documents, per the AIA (Amercian Institute of Architects).   That is a mouthful, so I guess it is no surprise that the public at large has invented shorter phrases to describe what it is architects do when they create the design and construction documents for a home.

Drawings are usually produced on computer these days.

Drawings are usually produced on computer these days, regardless of whether you call them house plans or construction documents, and it takes a lot of skilled human design involvement.

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House Plan Design: Myself or an Architect?

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Should  you attempt to create your house plan design yourself?  Or Hire a Pro?

House Plan Design and Your New Home

I have had several clients that have come to me and confided that they have spent the last year, two years, or even three years trying to get around the expense of hiring a competent, legitimate actual licensed architect to create their house plan design for their custom home.  They usually say something like “I had a prefabricated home company create a house plan design for me for “free” during the last couple of years…” (more…)

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Best Home Architects

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Looking for the Best?

(C)Copyright 2006-9 Rand Soellner, All Rights Reserved Worldwide. Photo by Megan Miller. Falcon Cliff Lodge Designed by Rand Soellner Architect

(C)Copyright 2006-9 Rand Soellner, All Rights Reserved Worldwide. Photo by Megan Miller. Falcon Cliff Lodge Designed by Rand Soellner Architect

If you are looking for the best home architects in the world, this press release may be of interest to you.  While there are various firms to consider, this release focuses on one particular custom residential architectural company, and mentions another firm and their stylistic trends.  Rand Soellner Architect is one of the best home architects on the planet, per Internet page rankings.  This ranking changes daily, but Soellner can almost always be found on Page 1 of Google search results under a variety of home architect terms.   Why is this?  Rand Soellner Architect really enjoys what he does and people like the attention to detail he gives each project.  Custom house plans are his specialty (not just mountain designs).  His work always appears timeless, yet is somehow fresh and interesting, which is why so many people believe he is among the best home architects.  Rand Soellner’s designs capture the spirit of the mountains of the Blue Ridge-Appalachians, the American and Canadian Rockies, the Andes, the Himalayas and Bavarian and other European terrains.

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