New Home Design: Tricks and Ideas for Efficiency

There are many ways to improve the design of the house without increasing the size and hence cost. Using logical and multiple use of space technology, you can increase the efficiency of a house plan and still keep the building costs in the budget.

How do we define the space

area should define how we use it ... Not only are the dimensions. Some rooms have volume rooms and dining rooms, while others are linear rooms such as bedrooms. Still others are combinations such as large rooms. Definitions used in rooms based on the way rooms are used. Taking it a step further, the use of rooms shall be based on the furniture put into it. Let me explain.

is the volume of the dining room, dining room table because so kaže.Stol in the middle of the room with little need for prostora.Spavaća room wall is a linear space because there is furniture to the walls. The linear space require prostor.Velika room wall is a combination of space because it is both the way the furniture area.

Multiple use the same space

There are several ways you can use the same space for multiple functions. In a previous article I used the example of a lower level and that the completion of this space properly can actually save on construction costs. Although this solution may not be applicable to all design, it is for many.

One of my favorite other examples can be found in the main bedroom. I like to use what are called "master bedroom lobby" to combine the traffic patterns in that room at one place. Part of the reason it works so well is to understand the traffic patterns of all the rooms ... In this case, the main bedroom. If you divide the traffic patterns, to save space ... and costs. In the master bedroom, you have 4 traffic patterns. Do you enter the apartment, the entrance to the room, the entrance to the bathroom and the closet door (s). That many designs, you'll see in the bedroom and the apartment will be the starting point of the same door, but then the rest are separated. This means that the space and from these exit points are as dysfunctional as effective in their use. What I do is place the apartment door approach that I call the foyer of the master suite. This foyer will have a WIC (i) above, and bath and bedroom on either side, so all surfaces will be the same. This will save you a lot in the area and make the design more effective master suite. Keep in mind, the space is defined as the use of the area, as described earlier.

Walk-in Closets, take up less space than linear

is the spinoff to the use of walk-in closets, cabinets, instead of linear. I always try (really, really hard) to do all my designs. Why? This is an excellent example of effective use of space. Take a typical floor plan with linear closet about 8 feet in length. That could mean about 6 feet in the door and unusable area in front of them. Doors cover the whole wall space, so you need more wallspace placed on furniture. Now, move a wall cabinet with doors on it in room (which is the actual room dimensions less ). It gives you the WIC .. and pick up all the wall space wasted by the closet door ... and have more closet space too. By making room less you are actually creating usable space in the room more . Room then functions as a larger room, at no cost.

did not cost a lot to say? Wrong. If this room is located on the 2nd floor, in order to accommodate 3 ft. dresser in the room with the linear closet, you may need to make a room more ... and rooms in the floor beneath it, ... and the ground underneath it too. This could turn out to be quite expensive salon.

Do not forget the golden rule (s)

to follow the money. This applies to their design decisions throughout.