Design Your Own Home

Do you want to design your own home? Actually it's quite simple that you think. Since you are going to use your home it's quite obvious that you should design it yourself. I am not saying that you should learn to create all the technical details about creating drawings and other construction details but you can easily visualize how the form of your home looks.

Everyone is a dreamer, right? so you can use very simple sketches to explain the designer what you exactly want in your home. You can help an architect in designing your home in choosing color schemes, materials, surroundings planning such as a garden or a patio.

Depending upon your likes/dislikes the designer can produce various alternatives of actual home design plans for you. But in order to make this happen you must have a very clear idea of you want to be your home like. You can ask yourself many questions so that your ideas become clear.

Let's see some of these factors in detail.

Factors that affect a home design.

A good home design is a combination of many factors such as function, aesthetics, economics, services and maintenance. If you follow and respect each of these factors it will be easier of the designer to come with a great home plan. You can ask yourself the following questions before designing a home plan.

As a home owner the following questions will have a much higher weight as far as design is concerned.

• How many persons will use the home?

• How many persons in the home are earning members?

• Do you or any of your family members have a special hobby such as gardening. If yes, are you looking for a way to use your home garden to accomplish it?

• What's the monthly income of all earning members combined?

• Do you have a pet as a family member?

• Do you have a special attraction towards a certain kind of color schemes? If yes, can it be used as a "design theme" for your home?

• Are you an antique collector? if yes, can we use it as a special decorating factor for home interiors.

• Do you remember a home you have seen somewhere else which you liked very much, for example at your friends place or in a movie? This can be used effectively to design your own home.

• And much more....

You see, all these questions have one thing in common, they talk about YOU. We have not yet gone into the details of costing and materials and construction technology yet, because that's not really important here. I am trying to make your mind clear about what you want out of your home design. Finally a home is all about your comfort zone, you are going to use it. That's why it is much more necessary to pee inside yourself and look at your likes and dislikes first. When you write the answers to these question n a piece of paper, everything will start falling in the right place. The list of questions and answers you provide will be a great help to create the final home plan.

Remember there is only one thing true here.

Your Home Is Your Reflection

That's why try to get to know yourself first and it will be real easy later to reflect it in your home design.