1st Timers Guide To Cost Efficient House Design

so that they are considering building your own dream home? Most people build their own houses are often caught off guard about the project budget, and it always results in a really unpleasant experience for the first time builder.
Be aware of budgeting can save you a lot of headaches during the building process and can eliminate most of the unpleasant surprises. Here are a few pointers to keep in mind when designing and budgeting for the proposed home:

SIZE
The first thing to consider is to build a single storey or double storey home. Factors that will influence your decision may be, inter alia: Stand size, soil, views, and of course price. Cost of double-storey building is not necessarily more expensive than the cost of a first floor floor plate may cancel a large percentage of the cost basis and treating the ground floor and ground floor slab especially if soil conditions are poor quality.

masonry
The first time builders are planning and designing their new home they often try to save on the wall and is often a compromise between comfort and aesthetics of the house. Usually a wall in the home construction project is only about 8-10% of the total project costs and therefore makes no sense to try to reduce costs by cutting the brickwork. One can of course argue that all these walls should be finished with plaster and paint or other finishes, but for the most part it does not really reduce the cost of the rest of brickwork.
Remember, great design can make a very cheap only using brick features or niches inside and outside the home.

Zidane FORM
One thing one might want to consider the form layout. If you really need to save the wall, there can be substantial savings in line away from the long rectangular or complex shapes with many changes of direction. Where possible, try to keep the shapes as square as possible and eliminate unnecessary interior walls and direction of changes in the walls.
As a guideline, consider the following: 10x10m square shaped house is 100sqm using 40m from zida.20x5m rectangular house is 100sqm but also the length of the wall used to create the same area is now 50m.

ROOF MATERIAL
Different roof materials may be considered one of the following approximate descending order Price: waterproofing concrete slabs, straw, clay tile, metal, concrete roof tiles. Other roofing materials such as natural slate tiles or sheet copper are available as well, but rarely used and expensive.
In South Africa, double Roman concrete roof tiled roof at 26 degrees of tilt can be one of the most cost effective roof. Using metal roofing add between 20-80% of the cost and concrete slabs or thatch roof can be as much as three times the expense.

ROOF FORM
When designing your home and keep the shape of the roof in the back of your mind. If you are looking to build a double-field roof, there are a lot of unnecessary valleys and ridges as apposed to a very simple roof can work as much as double for the same area of the roof. Thatch roof, making much more of a freeform in its construction, much more complex designs can be designed without being significantly more expensive than it relates to rigid krova.Betonska tiled roof panels can be expensive, but it would be almost no restrictions on forms that can be made ​​in the plan, without affecting costs. With concrete roofing size is directly proportional to the price.

PLUMBING & ELECTRICAL
These two items can be the most overlooked cost items for the first time builders kući.Instalacija and labor cost, and without the shackles can be as much as 15% of the total project cost depending on the complexity of building design and the number of points for fitting supplied.
When designing bathrooms and kitchens to try to put them together as close to the point of sewer connection as possible but do not let this control your overall design.

TREATMENT
The choice of finishes in your home will significantly be a dominant factor in overall project costs. If you are really aware of the costs for the first time builder or developer may, this is where most savings could be made, but be careful to take it outside where it begins to compromise the re-sale value of the house.