That is a good thing, by anyone’s yardstick. We have heard that the Nation’s economy is improving and from the activity we are beginning to see, that sounds right to us.   We tend to be conservative about the implications of certain activity.   However, good solid design work on our part for individual couples wanting nice retirement houses and for speculative builders pre-selling our designs on lots bodes well for the housing construction industry.  You have to have a design before you can build it and sell it live in it.

So while what we are experiencing are modest projects right now, we have also had inquiries about possible other more ambitious efforts as well.  Like what?  Well, a 200,000 sf 5-story castle on an island, accessed from a causeway for one.  That was an inquiry from overseas.  For another, we have been asked about creating a combination mountain-themed nature center with hotel, restaurants, office buildings and other features.  Those last two were inquires, mind you, not actual contracts yet, but at least it is a good sign of a healing economy to have investors and speculators proposing such things.  That was missing during the last year, and now we are hearing about them more often.  That has got to be a sign of an improving economy.

We are enjoying working on smaller “real” projects lately, and we are very glad to have those clients.  Some people call us and sheepishly ask if we would consider creating houses of 1,800 square feet (sf), 2,500 sf or 3,000 sf.  Our answer is always the same: Sure!  Yes!  We are happy to help clients, no matter what the size of their desire residence.

We’ll get back to you all later, to check in once in a while and let you know the perspective from a residential architect.  Right now, I would say: things are improving.  I urge those of you who have the means, to engage your house architect now, get your residence designed, and price it out to your local builders (we can help you do that, too, and do so all over the Country).  Now is probably once of the best values you will experience, perhaps for the next 50 years.  Take advantage of this golden opportunity.

Housing in the 2,500 hsf (heated square feet) to 3,500 hsf seem to be the demand more often these days.  In the mid-decade (2003-2008) 4,500 hsf was the average, with more houses in the 6,000 hsf range and bigger.  Recently, I have had two different clients from different places in the USA, moving to the Carolinas, and wanting 2,800 hsf to 3,000 hsf or so.  This appears to be a trend.  Another client is having us modify their 6,000 hsf previous design direction to become more like 2,500 hsf.

The key to this emerging trend is developing more compact footprints with design approaches that FEEL big.  That’s where the architectural artistry comes in.  I used to work for one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s main apprentices and that is where some of the open space planning philosophies came from.  Wright’s designs look very different from mine, but they share overlapping open plan space concepts, which serve to expand the visual environment in a house.

I have also developed sliding interior doors for certain multi-functional spaces, like seldom used bedrooms, that are more typically part of a recreation room or part of a great room.  But we are here to serve the needs of the mansion clients and the cozy compacts; all are welcome.

We often receive phone calls or e-mails with people sheepishly asking if we would consider designing a house for them of only 2,500 hsf +/-.  Our answer is always the same: YES!  WE have actually designed ultra-compact in-law living quarters as small as 393 hsf.

I recently conceptually designed what I call the “Firefly Cottage.”  It is a 2-story bungalow of 912 hsf, with 512 hsf on the main floor and 336 hsf on the loft level above.  The loft level is the master suite, complete with His and Her closets, room for a seating area  or modest home gym equipment, stair, AHU (Air Handling Unit) and a really nice bathroom.  The main level has another full bathroom, substantial Kitchen with a decent island, living area, dining area and Home Office area (that uses the dining table as the conference table), with an 8′ or 9′ tall Grand Canyon-Dor (our trademark giant sliding glass doors) and a modest entry porch, and coat closet.  Pretty good for such a compact plan!

To see these and more, please contact Rand Soellner Architect at 828-269-9046.

This is beautiful music to the ears of home builders, residential architects, American economists, politicians, and generally anyone that is affected by the design, furnishing, construction, and sales of houses in the United States.  One of piece of information comes from an old high school chum of Rand Soellner’s in South Bend, Indiana.  He happens to work in the Chemistry Department of Notre Dame and he mentioned to Rand the other day that the RV (Recreational Vehicle) industry in Elkhart, Indiana is apparently one of the secret indicators of the health of America’s economy.

Also, one of Rand’s clients happens to own a steel company and he echoed this information, saying that Elkhart is home to the 5 largest RV manufacturing companies in the United States.  The owner of this steel company said that they have had multiple conversations and meetings with these manufacturers.  Evidently, it is true that America’s economists monitor the sales of these companies closely.  When sales are down, as it has been for the previous several months, it means that Americans are not spending money and the economy is going to be sluggish.  When orders for RVs improve, as they are right now, it is a sign that Americans feel good about the economy and that things are improving and that they can be more liberal with discretionary funds.  So, those who have the means to make such a substantial purchase as a Recreational Vehicle are placing orders right now.

This, according to the steel company owner and others (including Rand Soellner’s high school chum) said that this is an indicator of an improving economy.  So, that is one good sign.

Here’s another: Rand Soellner HOME ARCHITECTS ^TM website recently went to #1 for a few days, then just slipped back to #2.  This normally happens when the website is in the process of being ranked up to the next level.  There are a number of factors affecting this, including website traffic, but according to website traffic statistics, it appears that the Soellner website is experiencing healthy traffic, indicating that people who are thinking of hiring residential architects are looking at his firm’s website.  This is a good sign of a healthier housing economy, too.

And here’s another one: Soellner was recently engaged to design a custom residential project in the Carolinas.  That is verifiable, actual new business, which is always the best sign of a healing and restoring economy.  Also, his company is receiving more inquiries (for both commercial and residential projects) in the past several months, all of which points to a renewed interest in the hearts, minds, and pocketbooks of businesspeople and hopeful homeowners, and that is a good thing.

While these 3 indicators might seem like tiny blips on America’s economic radar, they certainly are not negative.  They are positive in anyone’s estimation of what a resurrecting economy should have.  So many people dwell on the gloomy side of what can happen; we thought you might appreciate some good news, grassroots as it may be.

What does this mean to you?  Well, if you are planning on having your dream house designed and built in the next year or two, you might want to give some serious consideration to starting now.  After the residential market is healed, prices will likely begin returning to pre-recession levels and the low mortgage rates and low construction prices that you can enjoy today will be gone.

People in the residential construction market have taken it on the chin during this downturn and they are not going to be disposed to allowing that to happen to them again, so do not look for today’s excellent low prices to continue indefinitely.  Once prices for housing return to normal levels, they may stay there for a long time, as least as long as the vivid memories of today’s developers and builders.  So: take advantage of the remaining few weeks and get started as soon as you can.

An architect, however, has been trained for a minimum of 6 years at an accredited major University, if they have a Master of Arts in Architecture, like Rand Soellner AIA (who actually has about 8 years of college and graduate school training).   Architects also typically have about another decade of apprenticeship under the scrutiny of senior licensed architects watching their every move.  Architects also are professionals licensed in various states throughout the USA.  Draftsmen usually have no licenses of any sort and are not required to know anything in particular.  Architects have to take CEUs (Continuing Education Requirements) every year, typically at least 12 hours for most state jurisdictions and 18 credit hours for the AIA (American Institute of Architects), which means that architects are up to date on what is going on in the world of design, energy conservation, building codes, and just plain good design.

Now that we know that a real architect is licensed, has a degree equaling the University training of a medical doctor, has passed through a grueling apprenticeship, AND is required to update their knowledge continuously; can someone please tell me what an architect does for their client?

Sure.  Here are just a few of the key things this highly skilled design professional does for you, for a residential design project of your house:

What an Architect Does (Partial List):

1.  LISTENS: An architect listens to you and notes what you want for your project.  This is how he learns about your lifestyle needs, wishes, and desires for this very important step in your life– your dream house.

2.  STUDIES THE PROPERTY:  With an eye for architectural enhancement he analyzes the best views, the slopes of your topography, the geology, how water flows around your ground, how your vehicles might best access your land, what views to avoid, how utilities would enter your grounds, possible methods of view clearing (limbing-up (pruning), topping, or outright removal of certain vegetated areas), reasonable possible locations for the various aspects of your project, and many other considerations.

Locations he takes into consideration include your main house, the garage (if you want one), backup space from the garage, other vehicular maneuvering space (it takes a lot), your home entry point(s), guest entry location, the view to and from your home from the access street, the views from your home to the best natural features, cost implications of your foundations relative to the site slopes (this has a huge impact on your construction costs), best locations for outdoor living areas, and best apparent locations for well and septic (if not tied to other sources).

3.  CREATE A BETTER DESIGN: This comes in response the the previous two items listed.  If you have been simply plunging in with a draftsmen and skipping necessary steps, of course the results will be less than satisfactory.  A real professional makes sure that what he/she creates has the substance of your wishes and your site’s parameters as the warp and woof of the very fabric of his design.  Of course, being a trained and highly experienced person, an architect also has decades of experience to guide his creation for you.  He has walked this path before and understands the implications of the infinite variety of choices and, quite often, their cost implications.  The plans arrived at through the filter of this trained pro will be much more fulfilling than other approaches.

4.  COST IMPLICATIONS: While only your own choices and your builder determine the actual cost of your project, your design professional does realize the implications of your decisions and what might be more expensive than something else. So, you should listen to him when he mentions that your choice of wanting an all-stone house, for instance, could likely result in a budget-blowing result.  Stone is labor and material intensive and costs much more than exterior materials like wood siding and many other options.  His counsel can help you stay on track.

5.  BIDDING: If you wish, Architects will gladly provide you with assistance in finding qualified, licensed general contractors to bid your project.  Keeping builders’ proposal formats in one understandable “apples to apples”  format, is worth its weight in gold.  Without the Architect providing a level playing field for all the bidders, it is a free-for-all, with each builder offering up his pricing in whatever format and whatever options he chooses to present you.  It can be a bewildering experience for you.  How can you possibly compare Contractor A’s price to Contractor B’s price, when neither one has priced the job the same?  That is one of the reasons you want your Architect helping you.  He will provide the necessary forms that require all builders to present their quotes in the exact same format and exact same line items.

6.  CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION: Your design professional is typically pleased to provide you with construction administration services, in which he will periodically observe the progress of your builder and prepare a progress report with a copy to you and your builder, alerting all parties to what appears to be going correctly and what appears to be out of sync with the approved construction documents.  Your architect can also manage your contractor’s pay requests, having them be first reviewed and approved by him, before you are required to pay them.  This will provide you with one more safeguard for a properly run project.  Builders are more careful when they know the architect will be reviewing their work and approving their pay requests before they receive payment.  Architects can also review and approve contractor’s submittals during construction, verifying that what they are intending to use is in compliance with approved drawings and specifications.

There are a host of other things your architect can do for you. Above have been broad brushstrokes just to acquaint you with some of the factors in this very important decision.  The suggestion presented here is: hire an architect to design your house– the benefits are many.

The clients want mountain – themed timber frame / post and beam design approaches.  For the timber frame shop, the client has also asked Soellner to create some exterior appearance renovations for the surrounding industrial structures to refresh a 12 acre manufacturing grouping of buildings into a timber-framed themed cohesive public image.

While Rand Soellner’s website is strong on residential architecture, if you look on the right side menus for PROJECT INDEX, then once there, look for Mountain Resort Architects, that will give you some idea of the Soellner firm’s commercial timber capabilities.  Or click here: mountain resort architects .  There is more information about commercially related post and beam design work on the Multi Family Housing selection on that Project Index page.

Also, if you look in the Popular Design Services portion of the right-side menu of the website, click on “Timber Frame Architects.”  That gives some general background on that specialty.  Or click here:  timber frame architects

Rand Soellner has been designing, managing, detailing, specifying and working on post and beam projects for a long time.  He was the architect of record on about half of Jurassic Park in Orlando.  That project had a great deal of large timbers, timber trusses, special post and beam arrangement and special conditions to suit that world-class theme destination.  Click here: recreational architect to see images and read more information about that amazing project.  Project cost was between $50 million to $74 million.

The information being conveyed here is that Soellner designs much more than post and beam houses.  If you are a developer or land owner, or are looking for a commercial timber frame architect to create a special project for you, Soellner may be the architect for whom you are looking.

Or, give Rand Soellner a call: 1-828-269-9046 from just about anywhere in the world.  He would be glad to discuss your project.

What’s the difference between an anchor bolt and a hold down?  An anchor bolt, as defined by the International Residential Code: anchor bolts resist lateral forces that could cause a building to lift or slide off the foundation.  Anchor bolts must have sufficient embedment to resist pullout and must be spaced properly to secure the sill in place.  Washers must be capable of distributing a load across the sill without it cracking or splitting.

We would also add that anchor bolts help resist vertical suction loads as well, such as during heavy winds.  Many of our projects are in mountainous wind zones of between 110 mph to 130 mph.    We would also modify the definition of the washer at the sill plate to primarily distribute a compression load across the wood plate.

Hold downs are essentially the anchor bolt’s big brother and are typically required to be installed adjacent to several studs, typically called a “studpack.”  The hold down is a premanufactured item out of heavy gauge galvanized steel and its anchor bolt rod typically extends down all the way into the footing.  The main purpose of hold downs are to secure the wood stud walls in the structure from dislocation during seismic shaking and wind.

We typically look at our floor plans and evaluate where the structural engineer would likely want to see shear walls.  We normally accomplish this with manufactured wood sheathing panels securely attached to both sides of stud walls that run perpendicular to our “View Walls.”  Because the view walls normally have large amounts of windows and glass, we look for every opportunity to brace these “normal” to their geometry, to strengthen them against horizontal wind and earthquake movement.  According to what the contractors and building officials tell us, our designs normally have more bracing for wind and earthquakes than most home design plans coming through their offices.  This is because we are architects and want it done correctly.

Within the shear walls, we locate the hold downs, near ends and at structural discontinuities like windows and doors, fireplaces and the like.  Therefore, our hold downs brace the already panel-sheathing-braced shear walls, which results in a super-secure arrangement making the houses we design more solid than most in the United States and the world.

Once again, perhaps this does not sound very glamorous, but if you are sleeping and up gusts a high wind or a little tremor, you should be able to continue sleeping comfortably, knowing that your structural engineer and architect have resolved these issues.

Contact for:  properly braced residential design:

Rand Soellner, AIA/NCARB  1-828- 269-9046
rand@HomeArchitects.com
www.HomeArchitects.com

This is a perceptual art, refined by Soellner over decades; since his days working on his Master’s Degree in Architecture at the University of Florida.  He also has a minor in Environmental Psychology, in which he researched people’s reactions to space.  Soellner also designed projects for one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s main apprentices, Nils Schweizer, FAIA.  Wright was a master of overlapping spaces in residential design.  Soellner learned this while studying the buildings at the Florida Southern campus and designing for one of Wright’s main proteges.

Soellner has created an assemblage of compact plans that are just about unbelievable, in terms of features and rooms, when compared with the square footage.  For instance, he has a Cardinal Camp Cottage series that has a 3-story design with 2 stories over a walkout basement.  It has 5 bedrooms (one an optional den/home-office), and 3 bathrooms.  It is a very compact 2,472 hsf (heated square feet).

That also includes: a recreation room in the walkout basement, a laundry room (yes, with the large washers and dryers of the 21st century), a mechanical space, a pantry closets, walk in closets in bedrooms, ample large door areas facing views and exterior living area porches, a larger than normal gourmet kitchen with a center island AND another bar for pull-up stools, a 48″ wide gas range, dining space on the view, a great room/living area with a fireplace, a foyer, a master suite with its own fireplace, a master bath and master walk-in closet, an optional pop-out luxury master bath, a sleeping porch, an outdoor living room, outdoor dining with summer kitchen, stairs, a front porch, an optional garage (2 car oversize standard), an optional powder room, an optional shop in the garage, an upper loft level with loft/bridge overlooking the great room below, a bathroom for 3 people at once, and double doors to the upper loft bedrooms.   Yes!  All of that in under 2,500 hsf!  Seem impossible?  Soellner himself would have thought so, until he created it.

Be among the first, few lucky homeowners to experience this luxury in such an affordable package.  Just recently, clients visited Soellner to review these schemes with him and were delighted by the affordability, luxury, and functionality offered by these amazingly spacious arrangements.

Soellner has created about 7 main optional arrangements, with scores of options for each plan, to allow people to tailor a custom house for each family. “People are special,” said Soellner, “Everyone is unique and has particular needs, desires, and dreams for their house.  Consequently, each design for each client develops their signature on it.”  The method developed by this custom residential architect is to allow people from all over the USA and the world to come and visit him in his studio, where he will enthusiastically display his designs, discussing the direction that new client might wish to pursue.  Then, when contracted, Soellner creates the scheme appropriate for each client’s wishes.

“Part of the secret to accomplishing these compact houses that live big is to use Wright’s principle of overlapping spaces in open plan arrangements,”  said Soellner, “this is something I studied decades ago and have used in my designs since I was a young designer.”  Soellner explained that his new compact residences still have internal views as long as 34′, a distance not expected within smaller housing.  The secrets as to how this architect accomplishes this is revealed to those new clients who visit him and have one created just for them!

You and Home Designs

You look and look and look but you never find that floor plan that seems to suit your exact needs.  You might have found a style or “look” that appeals to you, but the exact plan just doesn’t seem to exist.  Why?  Because you are unique.

A floor plan is the graphic layout of one particular client’s desired lifestyle and response to their specific property’s characteristics.   Let’s say that again: any and ALL of the floor plans you are reviewing on the Internet were conceived for other people, not you.

This means that the layouts you see in the existing floor plans suit the people who paid the architect to create that house design for them.  You are looking for free, aren’t you?  Floor plans and architectural design is a very complex activity, created by skilled professionals carefully listening to the dreams and functional requirements of clients who pay them to create a design that satisfies their programmatic needs and responds appropriately to their property as well.

So, you spend weeks, then months online in your leisure time, hoping against hope that you will find a floor plan that works for you and your site.  Well … here you are, still at it after months and months or possibly years later and you still haven’t found that perfect plan, have you?  You won’t.  Why?  Once again: because you are special.  So are the people who paid that architect who created those plans for them.  But you just want to take plans you find online and use them, right?  Just because they are posted on the Internet does not mean that they are free.

There is the U.S. Copyright Act, which is very real.  It protects the work of musicians, composers, singers, architects, artists, photographers, and others who create a work of intellectual property.  Common law copyright protects any work of intellectual property automatically.  However, many architects also indicate a “(C) Copyright 2010 Rand Soellner, All Rights Reserved Worldwide” notation by their designs so that you and others know that it is copyright protected.  Penalties for unauthorized use can amount to $200,000 or more.  It is not worth it to attempt to use an architect’s work without their permission and payment for their work.

It is far easier, cheaper, better, and more ethical to contact the architect whose work you like and pay them to create a floor plan and a house design just for you that suits your every need.

And let’s think about how valuable your time is.  How many hours, weeks, months,or years have you spent trying to find something “for free” that suits your needs?  Think about how much you earn at your job per hour.  Multiply that rate times the amount of time you may have spent looking for “the perfect plan” online.  You will probably be shocked to see that you have spent tens of thousands of dollars of your leisure time looking for something that does not exist.  That’s not free.  Your time is valuable.  Wouldn’t you rather do something more enjoyable with your time?

So instead, why don’t you try this:
1.  Do look on line for designs whose appearance you like.
2.  Contact that architect.
3.  If they seem like interested, responsive professionals, arrange to meet with them.
4.  When you meet with them, review the floor plans for the house whose style you liked, and talk with the architect how those plans might be modified to suit your needs.
OR: consider starting a design for your lifestyle and your site from scratch.
5.  After you have contracted the architect whom you wish to work with, have them meet you at your property and walk it together, taking special note of desired views and other situations that can affect placement of your residential design.
6.  Proceed, with the considered opinions of your architect.

A house architect has likely spent decades designing custom residential designs for people similar to you.  He/she has the skills necessary to turn your words and dreams into functional three-dimensional reality at your site.  Even if you think you have found a plan that works for you before finding your architect, you may discover that there are things about it that will cost you much more for the construction or that may not be very pleasant, than if you had allowed your architect to adjust arrangements to best suit your specific needs and your site’s characteristics.  In other words: listen to your architect.  Their advice is valuable and helpful.

If you are going to be spending hundreds of thousands of dollars (or possibly more) for the construction of your dream house, don’t you deserve to have it designed to suit your personal wishes, needs, and land?  Do yourself a big favor and hire your own architect who you are paying to listen to you to make a custom residence design to make you happy.

Home designs for me contact:

Rand Soellner HOME ARCHITECTS ^TM
1-828-269-9046
rand@HomeArchitects.com

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Entities to know and listen to today are Harvard University, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Warren Buffett. In particular, what these entities have to say with respect to the United States housing economy is important to us all here in the USA.

So, when is the best time would be to have your dream house designed and built.  The answer: right now.  Why?  Because the new residential construction market has been at a virtual standstill for the last couple of years.  This is what needed to happen, because America had been building 2 million new houses a year when it really only needed 1.2 million per year.  That means that about 800,000 of the new residences a year built during the last 2 to 3 years was an ‘over-supply’, beyond what the normal demand could absorb.  Kind of unbalanced, wasn’t it?

Much of this oversupply of new housing was from ambitious investors, trying to ride the residential price bubble and make a substantial profit.  Unfortunately, when the oversupply of new houses began to just sit there on the market, unsold, it took other ambitious investors too long to understand the big picture of what was wrong and why they really should not have built at that time for strictly investment purposes.

So what has been happening during these skimpy construction years, beginning around 2008 and continuing through 2010?  According to Warren Buffett, people are gradually buying the oversupply of houses, at bargain discount prices.  This is an obvious consequence of the oversupply.  So, while America’s housing market waits, this oversupply is being consumed by bargain hunting buyers.  The big question is: When will the oversupply be sufficiently absorbed to allow people to return to normal housing design and construction?

All of the sources indicated above have reported, in one form or another, that the 3rd quarter of 2010 will show the first increase in housing spending since the end of 2008, and that the 4th quarter will show even greater housing spending.  Mr. Buffett said in his February 2010 letter to his shareholders that the current housing situation “should largely be behind us by this time next year.”  Which means that his information and research tells him that by February 2011, the housing market should be back to normal.

We all know that things of this magnitude do not happen over night, so Harvard’s statistical forecast about the 3rd and 4th quarter upturns in housing in 2010 make perfect sense.  Understanding this, what can any of us do with this information to benefit our circumstances?  Especially if we have been waiting on the fence, ready to have our new dream house designed and built?

Well, it appears that right now would be a prudent time to engage your residential architect to prepare the design for your proposed new house, then have your contractor price it and then begin construction as soon as possible.  Why?  Because when the housing market has fully recovered, what do you suppose will happen to prices?  Right: they will increase.  They are at record lows right now.  If you want to take advantage of the current low prices, it would seem to make sense to put your design and construction on a fast track, before correcting market conditions erase the current economic advantage that you presently enjoy.

The time has come to design and to build.

Contact information for design and building of your proposed new dream house:
Rand Soellner HOME ARCHITECTS ^TM
rand@HomeArchitects.com
1-828-269-9046
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Rand Soellner’s work can be authentic or conventional + hybrid timber features, as you wish and as your construction budget permits.  He will help you get what you want for your next house in Oklahoma, or wherever you happen to be located.

Timber Frame Architecture in Oklahoma

Why are we talking about Oklahoma timber frame architecture?  Because some of Soellner’s clients are there and others have made inquires.  Broken Bow, Eufaula, Oklahoma City, and other towns and counties have been very interested in Soellner’s work in timber frames.

Please let us know if we may be of service to you.  We also service Arkansas, Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Louisiana and other parts of the USA, no matter where your land happens to be found.

Rand was having lunch recently with a provider of timber frame trusses, beams, and posts.  The manufacturer’s representative made an interesting comment about when people might decide to have their dream home designed and built.  The representative became philosophical and commented that “None of us are going to live forever.”  His point was the sooner someone gets started having their wonderful residence designed, the sooner they can get it built, move in, and start enjoying life there the way they have always wanted.  And they can do so for a longer period of time if they don’t keep putting it off.

Why do you keep putting it off?  There are many convenient things to blame: the economy, your nephew’s graduation, wanting to earn an arbitrary amount of money before proceeding with your dream house.  Sure, any of these reasons seem valid at the time.  However, in the grand scheme of your lifetime, getting what you really want to make you happier then you have ever been before really should become a priority, shouldn’t it?  The payback to you is in how many years to get to enjoy your dream residence.   Every year you put it off means another year you won’t be able to enjoy it.  That is irretrievable.   Only you can adjust things in your life to allow you to proceed with the best house of your life.

That’s where Rand Soellner HOME ARCHITECTS ^TM come into the situation.  They can help you program, design, and assist in administering the construction of your special home.

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