We built our house in Palo Alto in 2002. We were on a very tight budget, so our architect designed a very simple structure (2-story). Her advice was to build a very simple structure to avoid unnecessary construction costs - that way we could afford to spend more on some interior details that were important to us (like nicer kitchen counters and a nicer front door).
Every extra el or protrusion or roofline increases the cost dramatically, so we built an almost perfect rectangle. Also, we avoided expensive roofing by building a parapet wall that hides the single-sloped roof - allowing us to use less expensive sheet roofing material because nobody ever sees it.
(Dan Lythcott-Haims)
I remodeled my Redwood City home in 2006-07. I think one of the better things I did was to engage with a contractor ahead of a designer/architect. I thought of it in the same way I would a HW product - use input as DFM. Granted, I was looking to extend a home I lived, so not trying to start from a ground up.
We built our house in Palo Alto in 2002. We were on a very tight budget, so our architect designed a very simple structure (2-story). Her advice was to build a very simple structure to avoid unnecessary construction costs - that way we could afford to spend more on some interior details that were important to us (like nicer kitchen counters and a nicer front door).
Every extra el or protrusion or roofline increases the cost dramatically, so we built an almost perfect rectangle. Also, we avoided expensive roofing by building a parapet wall that hides the single-sloped roof - allowing us to use less expensive sheet roofing material because nobody ever sees it.We built our house in Palo Alto in 2002. We were on a very tight budget, so our architect designed a very simple structure (2-story). Her advice was to build a very simple structure to avoid unnecessary construction costs - that way we could afford to spend more on some interior details that were important to us (like nicer kitchen counters and a nicer front door).
Every extra el or protrusion or roofline increases the cost dramatically, so we built an almost perfect rectangle. Also, we avoided expensive roofing by building a parapet wall that hides the single-sloped roof - allowing us to use less expensive sheet roofing material because nobody ever sees it.
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