Considerations When Designing Your Own Home

Designing your own home is a gratifying way to ensure that you get a place that is exactly what you want, and there are a lot of online programs to help you come up with that perfect design. Whether you are customising kit homes or starting from scratch, the possibilities are endless. Keep in mind, though, the following considerations to ensure that your new home ends up being everything you’ve dreamed of.

Size

This is probably the biggest decision when designing your home. When deciding on the size of your new home, consider what you currently need as well as possible needs for extra space in the future. If there is space on your lot, having room for a kit home granny flat can be a huge benefit, as you can use it for your family’s needs right now or even rent it out until you need it further down the line.

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If Celebrities Designed Their Own Kit Homes

The great thing about designing kit homes is you start with a blank canvas. Kit home manufacturers now offer so many design options, you can have virtually anything you want, as long as it can be manufactured in kit form, is structurally sound and conforms to local building codes.

So imagine if someone like Lady Gaga decided to design her own kit home; perhaps a weekender in the Hollywood Hills. It would most certainly be eye-catching and undoubtedly bizarre; perhaps a series of rooms built around a central recording studio, with a pink mushroom-capped tower from which she could count her trucks full of money on their way to the bank far below.

Or what if Clint Eastwood designed a kit home? Would he have sawdust on the floors and a hitching rail on the front verandah?

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Totally Unique Homes

When you build your own home, you want it to be unique, to have your own personal stamp on its design that says who you are and how you like to live.

To achieve this in a cost-effective manner, you could build a kit home. With a practically infinite number of design options, kit homes are the perfect way to express your individuality.

Or you could do what these pioneering souls have done … gone to extremes to show the world their uniqueness.

In 1948, The Shoe House was built by Colonel Mahlon Haines, the self proclaimed ‘Shoe Wizard’ who owned forty shoe stores in Pennsylvania and Maryland USA.

Built largely as an advertising gimmick, the Shoe House is a giant replica of a boot, quite liveable, if a little on the cramped side. It is 25 feet high and 48 feet long and features 5 levels, stained glass windows, a staircase, plumbing, a shoetop observation platform and even servants accommodation.

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Trends for Home Design in 2011

2011 has signaled a range of different home design trends as people are becoming more aware of environmentally friendly products and items that offer a unique artistic edge. Kit homes and customisable design that’s easy on the eyes and on the environment is what it’s all about:

Artistic flair

Home owners with an artistic flair are cheering with the new trend of decor that gives preference to one offs rather than prints of famous works by well known artists. Decorate your home with one off pieces and experiment with creating your own artworks.

Classic colour palettes

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