For me designing the house is the most important step in building one. This will be your guideline or goal in making your dream house. Designing your own house will benefit you greatly specially if you are not relying on a contractor because let's face it, hiring a contractor to build you your dream house is really expensive.If you want to build your own house in a budget be a contractor.
The easiest way to design a house is by a computer program known as google sketchup it is free to download and it is very easy to use. if you don't have any idea how to operate this program. Search youtube videos for sketchup tutorials there are thousand of tutorials out there. You don't really need to be expert at it you just need to learn house to use the tape measure the push and pull tool and a couple more functions and you're done. I learn to design using sketchup in half day and made my house plan in that same day.
For me sketchup is very important when you are building a house because you can just design whatever you want and just show it to the carpenter and you don't have any problem explaining to them what you want because it is there, you showed them what you want and the measurements are exact so that is as close as the real thing. I will show you what I did so that you will have an idea how I made mine.
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| This is the sketchup interface. Don't be afraid it is easier to use. |
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| this is the google sketchup logo |
JUST INCASE YOU WANT DO DOWNLOAD THE FREE VERSION OF THE GOOGLE SKETCHUP JUST FOLLOW THIS LINK: http://www.sketchup.com/download
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| Here is my final design it is a lowcost minimalistic design |
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| This is the top view of the house it has one bedroom one bathroom |
Photos shows the whole roofing system and how easy it is to built one. I choose shed type because it is cheaper and easier to make that the other design and I think it is more suitable to that minimalist theme.
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