House Plans

GenuineFan

Interested in building own house. Have a site. I am looking online for ideas/plans of storey and a half or dormer houses. Very limited selection. I want to have an idea before I engage someone to draw plans. Any suggestions of websites, etc.

dubbrin

Spot a house you like the look of. Look it up on the council's planning portal. For internal layout etc I find standing in a comparable space helps more than trying to visualise it from a plan.

GenuineFan

thanks .... just trying to get a few ideas.

sydthebeat

do you not think a professional designer will do a better job of design the dwelling that an novice?

GenuineFan

She will be going to a professional but was looking for a few ideas before she arranged the initial meeting. Thanks for your reply.

sydthebeat

GenuineFan wrote: »

She will be going to a professional but was looking for a few ideas before she arranged the initial meeting. Thanks for your reply.

well speaking as a designer...

the best thing to do is to go with a written brief of what you want to end up with.
be as specific as possible with the areas you really want ie we want a corner jacuzzi bath in the en-suite with a low horizontal window which we can look out from etc etc

include loads of pic which show features you like, internal and external pics... specific room pics ie kitchen styles you like.. etc

believe me, whats not a good idea is to go with a predesigned layout.
I have found that when a client puts time into organising a layout they tend to be invested and married to that layout, and find it extremely hard to break away from it even when its patently bad and wrong. And plans can simply be wrong, no other way of putting it...

a great phrase i once heard about describing a clients wish list..
"its not that you know what you want, its that you want what you know"
its practically impossible for a client to want what they do not know ... and its the designers job to put this the client and challenge the client on the brief

the designer has the experience and expertise in designing the layout etc so you should leave them to do what you are paying them to do.

Calahonda52

best 30 euro you will spend
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