How to Choose a Floor Plan for Your New Home in Utah
How to Choose a Floor Plan for Your New Home in Utah
Article by Jayson Gibson
Utah is presently a real estate buyer’s market. Mortgage rates are at record lows, and there are a number of quality new homes for sale at a hugely discounted price. If you want to have your house built from scratch, that can easily be done, too; it can be very fulfilling to have a hand in the design and layout of your house.
Make sure, however, to design your floor plans well. There are a lot of residential plans available and it can be difficult deciding which to choose. Here are some tips to help you choose a floor plan for your new home.
Think about your needs first; who and how many people are going to live there? Will the plans and the facilities meet all your needs? Would you be comfortable living there? Prioritize function over form; otherwise you’ll end up with just a house-something for display-and not a home.
Consider the space that you have available. Work on what’s available rather than on what you think there should be. No matter how small the space, you can maximize it by making it multi-functional. Some floor plans can even make even small spaces look big, such as open space floor plans that use interior views to make a room seem larger than it really is.
Factor in the personalities of family members. Each member of the family has particular needs that should be taken into consideration when deciding on a floor plan. Parents, for example, may want privacy and choose to put the master suite away from the other bedrooms. Some windows could be made to look out into the garden for those who love nature; a big kitchen could be allotted if the family considers it important, and for those who love to party, the new home’s floor plan should allot space for entertainment and activities.
Based on the design, make sure that there is a smooth traffic flow through the different parts of the house. There is nothing more off-putting than a seemingly disorganized house, in which you have to go through one area in order to get to another. Make sure that everything flows in a logical way, which will create harmony and avoid inconvenience or frustration for residents and guests.
Once all important elements have been discussed among the family members, a professional architect should be consulted to make the final design. He or she will take into consideration all of the things that you find important, and can advise you of the feasibility of the design with regards to form and function. Both you and the architect can then decide on the final draft of the floor plans together.
Of course, there are a lot of pre-designed floor plans available in the market nowadays. There are also customized ones that you can help create. The bottom line, regardless of which type you choose, is to select a floor plan that will not only meet your and your family’s needs, but will also satisfy your idea of a dream home.
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Question by : Why does Ryan Homes has 50 pages of blueprint for one house?
When I built my small house, it only need three pages of blue print. First pages is exteriors layout, second pages is interiors floor-plan layout, third page is foundation lay out.
If you has a bigger homes, you can have up to seven pages of blueprint because huge homes require a bigger display images so it create a lack of space per pages to add more than one layout.
For Ryan home, why need 50 pages of blue print? When I look through the whole 50 pages. It has details that aren’t going to be at the site where house will be at.
Like they display four different version of garages from same house, two car front garage, two car side garage, three car front garage, three car side garage. Of those four lay out, it take four pages of blueprint just over garages issues when there will be only one of them will be choose at the site where house will be at.
Other example is kitchen lay out, there is eight different options of version over locations of cabinets. It took two pages of kitchen only pages. At my house, it part of interiors floor plan include kitchen that already been use when my house is being built.
Also they include plumbing detail and locations. Also HV-AC detail too on one pages. With my house, don’t need blue print of those utilities, just only use building permit and then inspector check to ensure they are to code before approve it without even need blueprint of utilities.
As for Rayn Homes, why 50 pages per house? It’s take a huge a lot of papers to waste. When Ryan Homes developed a 100 different homes at that community, it going to take five thousands pages of blue print. Really it only gonna need 300 pages at the whole community if house is small in that development, maybe 700 if big homes. It waste of papers and costs to print those papers.
Why 50 per house pages of blueprint. Maybe you know answers.
Can’t builders adjust the features into only 3 pages of blueprint? Like eight different options of kitchen, just create one blueprint with the one customer choose for their house? Like bay window, builder can modify blueprint to include bay window? No mistake will happen if they know what this house will have before it build just control the blueprint. Like if this customer want 3 cars garage on this house, just make a blue print with 3 cars only just only for this house. Not put all 4 pages of blueprint over garage issues.
I don’t see how error can happen if they make special blueprint just only for this one house for only this customer.
Best answer:
Answer by Ed Atun
You are correct that it seems like a waste of paper to use so many pages. Especially when they could just post them on a website for everyone to use. When the builder offers so many options, they take the chance that the carpenters or the foreman will make a mistake. Forgetting to install a bay window might cost them $ 4,000 when an unhappy customer complains…. they paid for the window and they want it. With the bay window (or garage or kitchen) info easily available to every subcontractor, the builder thinks that the mistakes will be reduced. None of the subcontractors has to guess. Any sub who steps on the property has to have all 50 pages.. it is a requirement.
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