Small Home Architects
Small Home Architects create cottages and other modest residences for their clients.
Lake Toxaway Cottages designed by small home architects Rand Soellner. (C)Copyright 2004-2010 Rand Soellner, All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
Rand Soellner home architect’s company qualifies as small home architects because, in addition to designing larger facilities, they also create some very compact houses. For instance, one of their cottages is only about 393 hsf (heated square feet). It is an open plan Living – Kitchen – Sleeping area with a partitioned bathroom/closet. It is on a 2nd floor above a 2 car garage, up in the attic area. there is a stair going up from an exterior door and interior landing that accesses both the garage and the exterior. It functions as a mother-in-law suite, on the same property as a main house.
This type of arrangement can be very appealing, particularly in family village estates where multiple members of an extended family reside on the same property. Small home architects can provide as many smaller structures as are necessary to house people on the site, as long as it makes sense aesthetically and functionally.
Small home architects can save their clients money with economical planning approaches
Creekside Cottages designed by Rand Soellner Architect, Cashiers-Sapphire NC. (C)Copyright 2005-2010 Rand Soellner, All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
As small home architects, the Soellner firm has also master planned “diffused hotels” wherein he creates mutiple cottages of 1 or 2 stories and scatters them about a trail or road or around a courtyard, rather than assembling them into a large hotel block, which would be many times more expensive in terms of fire protection, construction type, fireproofing, additional area required for hallways, stairways, sprinkler systems, alarm systems and other aspects. This is an unusal approach that small home architects can use to arrive at “homier” and less costly solutions for even multi-family situations.
Small home architects are in demand and are hard to find
Small home architects Rand Soellner designed this compact cottage as a guest house, on the same property as the client's main home. (C)Copyright 2006-2010 Rand Soellner, All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
Small home architects are in demand. It is harder to design a functional and beautiful compact residence than it is to design a larger home. There have been books written about the virtues of smaller houses, some of them by architects. Sometimes a homeowner might want their main residence to be down-sized from a larger estate house in which they have been living for decades, and now that they have become empty-nesters (children grown and gone), they want a smaller house to take care of with less maintenance. Other people want the spaciousness of a large main house and then desire a guest cottage on the same premises, which is often popular in vacation resort areas. Small home architects can make it happen.
Rand Soellner Architect has designed a number of guest cottages and gets a kick out of how interesting a design he can make them. One of his designs is a 2BR/2Bath guest cottage of around 1,000 hsf. This results in a design that Soellner says seems full-featured, even though it is in a smaller package. Small home architects know how to get a lot of bang for the buck.
Contact for small home architects :
Rand Soellner AIA/NCARB
Rand Soellner Architect
828-269-9046
www.HomeArchitects.com
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