How to Read Floor Plans: A Guide

Table of Content

• Your Guide to Reading Floor Plans
• Architect & Senior Staff
• If you would like to build your own modern bungalow home, Chinburg has an extensive portfolio of plans you can choose from.
• Customize Your Home with a Chinburg Featured Floor Plan
• Chinburg Builders is a preferred builder of Artform Home Plans, a division of ArtForm Architecture.
• Easily Contact Trusted Architects and Building Designers

In the United States, the excitement around the craftsman home was also a reaction to the excess of Victorian architecture and its association with the wealthy. The style was seen as universal and more accessible to the middle class. Signed agreement is required for any use of our plans and images, including marketing and MLS listings. The style has evolved over the years, but the shape and defining characteristics remain largely intact.

Craftsman houses are frequently categorized as craftsman bungalow or craftsman chalet styles, but elements of the style can appear in a range of home shapes and sizes. It is possible to see many of these motifs repeated in many of the plans in Chinburg’s portfolio, as well as in the homes in our residential developments. Because our License to Build is assigned to the land, it’s best if whoever owns the land buys the License to Build. There are usually construction drawing change fees when the design has been changed. They can often be included in your construction contract. There are numerous customizations that your Chinburg team can make to these plans.

Your Guide to Reading Floor Plans

How do you think all those unique and interesting older homes came about? Whether you need a large or small home plan – if we don’t have it, we can design it. Finally, it’s important to remember that if you aren’t sure about a floor plan symbol, or how something looks or is spaced, just ask.

Custom design is much like the process described above. If you would need a lot of changes to one of our catalog plans, going fully custom could be the most cost effective route. At current construction costs (Dec 2021, running $250/sf and up), if we achieve a design that suits your needs as well or better in a mere 50 sf less – that just paid for the extra design cost.

Architect & Senior Staff

That means she’s dealing with a lot of the marketing materials both for our web site and for our builders. Elizabeth has a Bachelor of Communications from Framingham State University. Even when a plan is custom and the time required a little longer, we’re still very competitive. Excellent Prices – so our services actually fit within the budget. Safety is another component that may be overlooked, which is especially important if you have children or you’re thinking about expanding your family in the future.

You may also see something called “open to below, ” which indicates the space doesn’t have a floor but has an entryway or great room with extra high ceilings. This example is from the Parker, which shows the master suite. The room dimensions are noted, and you can see how the door swings, how the space can fit a king-sized bed, the size of the closet, and the bathroom with a double vanity and linen closet. Electrical plans show the locations of all outlets, switches and fixtures. Foundation and basement plans indicate the type of foundation, dimensions and the location of footings. My Art is about the essence in between what some think of as the "subject" of a painting.

If you would like to build your own modern bungalow home, Chinburg has an extensive portfolio of plans you can choose from.

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Welton has reinterpreted the bungalow into an extensive catalog of plans that homebuilders can customize with their own touches. One of her signature styles is the modern bungalow house, offering a range of homes that re-imagine the bungalow-style for modern living and the New England climate. The styles also feature well-designed interiors that often include open floor plans, built-in bookcases, custom woodwork, cabinetry and nooks in the kitchen. Historically, bungalow homes offered one of the earlier instances of an open floor plan, though this concept is used on other house designs and styles, including the cape. The bungalow’s floor plan is also typically asymmetrical, meaning that the doors and stairs are located on the sides of the house instead of in the center.

Michael joined us in 2022 as a semester intern as part of his Architecture degree program at Wentworth in Boston. Allen joined us in 2008 and focuses like a laser guided missile on Construction Documents. Allen is an experienced framer and builder who put the ladder away and picked up a mouse. Collaboration – A lot of our process, from the use of 3D software to our interactive design sessions, is designed to help you understand the design and enable you to make informed decisions.

This could be a design the builder has suggested, or another from our catalog. See our Search Tips.If you need changes, typically you, the home buyer, sign up with us and pay for your design changes. In some cases, you may have access to video footage that shows the inside of a home with a similar floor plan. There are even some software programs that will convert a 2D floor plan into a 3D image. Compare a space on your floor plan to a room in your current home.

How to Read Floor Plans: A Guide

Other features may include exposed rafters, decorative brackets under the eaves, and a welcoming front porch beneath an extension of the main roof. When we build an Artform home, we start by working with you to select a plan that is right for you, your family, and your lot. Once you have selected an Artform Home Plan, you can customize many of the features, making your new home uniquely yours. If you are not finding what you’re looking for in our catalog of Artform home plans, Artform will be happy to work with you to design completely new plans for your home. Most of our clients will be able to visit Artform’s offices in North Hampton in person, and meet with founder and lead architect Wendy Welton, but Artform can also work with you using video conferencing. Many other elements are noted on the floor plans and some will be more further detailed in the actual construction drawings.

Our approach has been to both listen to the market and to lead the market. We were advocating board and batten siding instead of cedar shakes before that nice lady in Texas. We were showing home offices before y’all knew you needed them… Many of our designs draw on our nation’s history, but there’s plenty of modern innovation as well.

The more you are educated about the terminology, the more you can be sure that what you think you see will be translated into what you expect the finished features will look like. The definition of a bungalow house has changed to include styles that reflect craftsman, mid-century modern, Tudor revival, and modern farmhouse. In these cases, the shape and basic characteristics of the bungalow remains the same, but the house is styled to reflect other eras, designs, or architecture. For example, the Tudor revival retains the same shape as the bungalow but would likely have the distinguishable trim detail that defines the Tudor style. Artform Home Plans is a division of Art Form Architecture, Inc., based in North Hampton, NH, owned by architect Wendy Welton.

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Your builder should be more than happy to answer any of your questions. Simply put, a floor plan is a scaled two-dimensional diagram of a space — a room, floor, house or building — as seen from above in this Wendy Welton ArtForm Architecture Plan. This isn’t possible for everyone, of course, but if you’re able, pop in to a model home with a floor plan that’s similar to yours. It will help you get a feel for the look, design and space of your floor plan. When you browse their catalog, you can sort by traditional factors such as square footage or complexity, but also by how you intend to use your new home. Are you empty nesters, looking for a smaller home with first floor bedrooms?