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To design a house I want to make clear that it is best to consult an architect, master builder or interior designer. But here I will show you the basic steps to design or rather pre design your own house, to consult a professional when you clear the house you want and your own well-defined spaces.

Step 1 Choosing Land or plot

First to choose the terrain, leaving aside the economic conditions. You should try that parcel of land has chosen a proper solar orientation, ie to promote your home with solar path suitable for addition to being sunny daylight has most of the day in the spaces we inhabit mostly.

It is important to take note of the elements present in the plot as a great tree, or natural slopes also find the address of the direct sunlight, wind, etc..

With respect to the orientation, it is always better than the back of the house this sunny, and also to enjoy the sun in summer. In order of priority, the north is an excellent orientation to the bottom, then the northeast, and northwest. Thus the gallery, usually located towards the front against, have protection from cold winds from the south and southeast. If the location of your land and the house is in the southern hemisphere.

We must also take the natural environment as the existing trees, especially if very high, as some species are losing leaves all year round. They can also cause unwanted shadows.

Step 2 Quantity of spaces necessary

Before starting the design of the house drawing record the number of environments that the house will contain. This includes dining room, kitchen, bedroom, relative number of bathrooms, kitchens, bedrooms, garage, or garage, parking spaces for a small garden or a landscaped to your liking. This will help you organize the layout in terms of extension of the house within the plot is concerned.

Step 3 Family composition and customs

Record the number of persons occupying housing or people who compose the family. Also take note of their age group, lifestyle habits such as he likes to do to each member, if you work at home or away, few, hours, etc.. this helps to create special rules for special purpose functions. For example if the homeowner is a “master of Yoga”, then you might need a different room with external access that does not disturb the privacy of the other rooms.

Step 4 of the preliminary design or drawing

The above three steps will reveal valuable information to you regarding the type of habitat that want to design. It also follows from these three steps if you must go only one level ground floor flat or a house with two floors.

Create some sketches on paper by hand or if you prefer you can use computer software, as there are several and are easy to use, you can even use it online, try to use alternatives that will solve the first three requirements to the maximum.

Define the architectural style, look at photographs, revisit home and interior design, search the internet, walk the neighborhoods where the houses are really like, create your own style!

Step 5 Materials, Facilities and budgets

If you have set the basic plan and architectural style, begin to choose building materials should be as natural and available near their future home and meet certain requirements of sustainability and are organic. You can also try to address the needs of various household services such as electrical, water supply and drainage system, rain water, solar energy, waste treatment, heating, drainage system etc..

Based on these 5 basic starting points as you see, but very important so you can easily finish the design house of your dreams. This type of study and careful analysis will save you time and money in the long run because you can try to advance the real problems and possible solutions that will undoubtedly appear in the next stage, we construct itself.