Residential Design Guidelines

A helpful 44-page guide for designers, design students, builders, and homebuyers to better understand the process of designing a home. Whether you are designing a home, or a homeowner planning to be more involved in the design of your home, it's important to have a strong understanding of the design process.

The goal of these guidelines is to help people be more informed about home design by breaking down the stages of development into easy to understand steps, and provide objectives for each step along the way. It will guide the reader from the initial programming of the home through the refinement of the design.

These guidelines present the different options for homeowners to get professional designs and help determine which option is right for them. Learn how a homeowner's involvement in an architect designed home is essential to making it fit their needs and key to making it truly unique.

What makes good design? What makes bad design? There are no easy answers to these questions, but having a stronger understanding of how to design, gives us a better foundation to form our own opinions.

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