How Do I Create a Functional and Beautiful Basement Remodeling DESIGN and FLOOR PLAN All by Myself?
Today I want to talk to you about creating a Basement Remodel Design and then turning that functional design into a workable Floor Plan. The floor plan for the basement remodeling project will serve a couple of purposes:
1.) It will serve as the blueprint for the actual construction process that you will be undertaking.
2.) A floor plan is required by most townships code offices in order for you to obtain your building permits to begin your job
3.) Once completed, your floor plan will serve as a guide for estimating and ordering building materials for your basement finishing project!
I use a very simple computer software program called 3-D Home architecture to put together my floor plans. But you can use any number of generic "home planning and design" software programs to assist you with this. I have found these software programs at all of the "Big-Box" retailers such as Staples, Office Depot, Office Max just to name a few!
More about how I actually sit at my computer and design basement floor plans in another article! Today I wanted to key-in on actually walking around your basement and putting a functional plan together based on the preexisting design elements that are present in all basements.
I'm talking mostly about the locations of the following common basement obstacles:
* Stairs * Overhead water and waste-line pipes
* Windows * Overhead duct-work
* Exterior doors * Water and Gas shut-off location access
* Furnaces * Waste water clean-out cap access
* Water heaters * Steel beams overhead
* Water Softener * Steel support columns!
* Sump pump pits * Electrical wiring in the road
* Electric Panels (Load center locations) * pre existing plumbing in the concrete floor
Given the natural landscape of most basements, you will have a host of design obstacles to design your finished basement around. That's what I want to briefly talk about today. If you can see your way clearly designing around these obstacles, you will more than half way to the finish-line when creating your finished basement floor plan.
Sounds like it might be easy, Huh? Well it is if you think creatively about each obstacle crossing your path. I have seen each of these obstacles a thousand times, and I still have to put on my thinking cap from time-to-time to design a creative and functional way around these design roadblocks!
By positioning the new basement wall around these "raod blocks" creatively, we will hide all of the "UGLY" eyesores throughout the basement. I could write for 2 hours here and would not even scatch the surface of the endless possibilities for designing my waqy around these road blocks!
More about actual design techniques in future articles here at EzineArticles.com!
Here's to Living "Down Under"!
Edward Case
For Design Ideas and other Basement finishing info visit: BASEMENT FINISHING IDEAS CLICK HERE!!
1.) It will serve as the blueprint for the actual construction process that you will be undertaking.
2.) A floor plan is required by most townships code offices in order for you to obtain your building permits to begin your job
3.) Once completed, your floor plan will serve as a guide for estimating and ordering building materials for your basement finishing project!
I use a very simple computer software program called 3-D Home architecture to put together my floor plans. But you can use any number of generic "home planning and design" software programs to assist you with this. I have found these software programs at all of the "Big-Box" retailers such as Staples, Office Depot, Office Max just to name a few!
More about how I actually sit at my computer and design basement floor plans in another article! Today I wanted to key-in on actually walking around your basement and putting a functional plan together based on the preexisting design elements that are present in all basements.
I'm talking mostly about the locations of the following common basement obstacles:
* Stairs * Overhead water and waste-line pipes
* Windows * Overhead duct-work
* Exterior doors * Water and Gas shut-off location access
* Furnaces * Waste water clean-out cap access
* Water heaters * Steel beams overhead
* Water Softener * Steel support columns!
* Sump pump pits * Electrical wiring in the road
* Electric Panels (Load center locations) * pre existing plumbing in the concrete floor
Given the natural landscape of most basements, you will have a host of design obstacles to design your finished basement around. That's what I want to briefly talk about today. If you can see your way clearly designing around these obstacles, you will more than half way to the finish-line when creating your finished basement floor plan.
Sounds like it might be easy, Huh? Well it is if you think creatively about each obstacle crossing your path. I have seen each of these obstacles a thousand times, and I still have to put on my thinking cap from time-to-time to design a creative and functional way around these design roadblocks!
By positioning the new basement wall around these "raod blocks" creatively, we will hide all of the "UGLY" eyesores throughout the basement. I could write for 2 hours here and would not even scatch the surface of the endless possibilities for designing my waqy around these road blocks!
More about actual design techniques in future articles here at EzineArticles.com!
Here's to Living "Down Under"!
Edward Case
For Design Ideas and other Basement finishing info visit: BASEMENT FINISHING IDEAS CLICK HERE!!