Open Plan Home Design
Many clients of home architects request an Open Plan Home Design.
Open plan home design by Rand Soellner home architects. (C)Copyright 2005-2010 Rand Soellner, All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
Rand Soellner home architects is one of the most skilled architects with open plan home design on the planet. 99% of his residential projects feature an open plan home design. Soellner’s spaces flow from one to the other, where they should, in the critical public areas:
Hearth Room (great room)
Informal Dining
Kitchen
Foyer
Outdoor Living Room
Outdoor Dining
Summer Kitchen
An open plan home design is essential to establishing the Outside coming in, and for the Inside going out feeling. Soellner utilizes such techniques as running the wood flooring the same direction outside on a deck as he runs the flooring inside, to carry the texture consistently through and to begin erasing the borders between spaces.
Open Plan Home Design also applies to outdoor living spaces
Open plan home design by Rand Soellner home architects. (C)Copyright 2005-2010 Rand Soellner, All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
Open plan home design is one of Soellner’s specialties. Please come to his office and review several plans with him; you will see for yourself.
Open plan home design is the way that Rand Soellner Architect designs. He was educated this way at the University of Florida, one of the premier architectural design schools in the United States. There, professors train designers to think of SPACE, not just “rooms.” And in imagining how space flows from one area to another, students who become experienced architects, like Rand Soellner, learn to connect the spaces together. In so doing, the projects utilizing open plan home design principles feel LARGER than other designers’ more compartmentalized creations.
Master Suites also benefit from open plan home design concepts
Open plan home design by Rand Soellner home architects in Lake Toxaway project. (C)Copyright 2005-2010 Rand Soellner, All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
Open plan home design requires decades of successful experience to handle properly. Rand Soellner has been designing both commercial and residential projects in this manner for a long time, so much so, that open plan home design is like breathing to him. Clients would actually have to ask him Not to design this way, because his default mode is: open plan home design.
To do this correctly, residential designers have to know what spaces work best being adjacent to each other. Public spaces want to be near to other public spaces. Private spaces do Not necessarily want to be near to other private spaces; rather, they typically want to be isolated for privacy between personal rooms. Oftentimes, public spaces can serve to separate private suites, which is the basis for Soellner’s split plans.
Open plan home design continues into master suites.
And once you are in a private suite, like the elegant custom master bedroom – bathroom arrangement above, you 
don’t stop: open plan home design concepts lead Soellner to provide double doorways that are wider and taller than normal, to create a flow of space between the master bedroom and the master bathroom. Also, Soellner utilized such techniques as 2-way fireplace between these spaces to implement some economies in which you pay for the fireplace once, and get to enjoy it in 2 different rooms. Wanting to have that heat in both a master bedroom and beside a large shower in the master bathroom are also functional aspects of such an open plan home design concept, mastered by Rand Soellner.
Contact for open plan home design :
Rand Soellner AIA/NCARB
Rand Soellner Architect
www.HomeArchitects.com
828-269-9046
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