Traditional House Articles
How two homeowners decided between old & new looks for their home addition.
Charlestown homeowners Dan and Heather Beliveau wrestled with the question of how their addition would look from the outside. Our architect, Jack French, drew up a rather traditional scheme (top pair of drawings), in which the existing building's shingled mansard roof was continued onto and around the new addition. In the contemporary scheme (bottom pair), however, the addition was clad in copper and sports a striking quarter-round "light scoop" to bring daylight into the bathroom.
Homeowners Wrestle With the Traditional vs. Contemporary Debate
Stock house plans offer something very important to new homebuilders - Value!
Did you know that a custom blueprint by a house designer or architect would cost upwards of $2.00 per square foot? That’s $3,000.00 for a custom 2,000 square foot house plan. Did you also know that the average stock house plan only costs approximately $550.00? Certainly the savings are worth considering a stock house plan over a custom one. Furthermore, most of our stock house plans can be modified at generally half the cost of getting a new house plan drawn from scratch, so you still make out!
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The best of modern and traditional designs converge resulting in a new classics style.
Elinor and Robert Turkel's town house in Tampa, Florida, contains a rarified meeting of icons--traditional and modern furnishings so stellar that they serve as shorthand for their design schools. "Our very first piece was the Barcelona table," Elinor says. That fabled design of modernist architect Mies van der Rohe is still in their collection. But instead of teaming up with others of its kind, it's joined by traditional furnishings of equal rank.
The Sum of its Parts
When Building a House - Give Serious Thought To How You Layout the Bedrooms
In a traditional house floor plan the master bedroom is located on the same side of the house as the other bedrooms. Most home owners think that this grouping of bedrooms is more practical, as they can have more control over children rooms. This type of layout can serve both as an advantage and disadvantage depending on the home owner’s personal view point.
