The project of his house. As you design, if you do the project itself?

I decided in the 2018 season. to start building a house. With the material of the walls and foundation of the type defined, the project was needed.

2017-2018gg winter after numerous views of various projects of houses, decided to do the project yourself. did not fit the criteria of many finished projects: the lack teh.komnaty (combustion), it is not optimal layout, excessive intricate design that will result in the complexity of its implementation and etc.

For me, there was at that time a few basic criteria:

1. House size and number of storeys.

Two floors, one-story options are not considered. Although, many write, you're in the age to climb the stairs several times a day? Up to this point still need to survive. I do not know what old age is but a state where you can not even get up the stairs - is clearly not an option.

The area should be optimal for a family and the opportunity to host (ie, plus a guest room), but 120 sq.m. the total area of ​​large square house needs to be serviced (cleaning) and more on heating costs in the winter period. And with our winters and the lack of mains gas - a decent cost, even with heating on coal.

Many are beginning to build a large house. With the expectation that the entire family will always live in it, and maybe later and grandchildren. But as long as the house is built, the children grow up, and it happens that they lose interest in this place: there are their interests and concerns. For example, studies in another city, his own family, etc. And you risk being left in the house a couple of hundred square one with his wife. there are examples of some of my friends. One even sold his house after the children have left for their apartments and houses, and built a house at the square next (let the good ground).

So, I think that the house should not be a spare is not callable rooms and areas.

2. Material of walls and their thickness.

After a long study of many materials, I came to the decision that the walls are made of autoclaved aerated concrete thickness 400mm. On this subject, the choice of wall materials will be a separate article, as long as we will not at this point to focus on.

3. A full second floor or attic.

I incline to a full second floor. Savings based on a small in the attic floor compared to a full-fledged, and design of the house to me was losing solidity and acquired a number of complex components that should be given special attention.

4. The presence of stoves and burners.

This for me was a mandatory criterion in the project. My demand to the furnace as a backup heat source in case of power failure or unforeseen breakage anything from the heating system. I decided to place the combustion inside the perimeter of the house with separate entrance. There also will be located all the components and communication.

5. Binding walls size and location of bearing walls, taking the overlap.

I had planned as ceilings of the first floor of the PC board. To their length and the total width of the project tied all the dimensions of the house.

6. Exit from the kitchen to the terrace.

It is also necessary to have an element in the project at home. I have a good view of the forest and you can arrange a place for eating outdoors in the summer.

In what better design house?

Professionals-level designers use programs AutoCad taking into account all the rules and execution of projects. But these projects need to be able to read.

For samostroyschika often, which would lay down a box at home, you need to know only the size of the foundation and walls, snap frames, windows to the corners of the house. Again, all communications, taking into account the location of: sewage, electrical, water and heating.

After examining the availability of free and simple software to design and visualize their structures, I first stopped at the program Sweet Home 3D. The program allows you to easily read blueprints, home projects and interior design in 2D and 3D versions.

There is drawn a strip foundation, but in fact the foundation planned plate-bowl. To bind communication (input pipes and sewer arrangement) and anchor internal walls, foundation drawn in wireframe upper "ribs" on the plate.

There is a significant disadvantage in the program - there is no exact binding to the millimeter. With an increase in the drawing can be seen that the lines can not match. Here we must be careful.

The program has a small built-in library elements of the house and furniture. As well as, additional elements can be downloaded. Furniture helps visualize good living space, to see the correlation between the size of rooms with furniture sizes.

But the project in this program, I did not dorisoval. For myself, I opened another program: SketchUp. There are both free and paid versions. I redrew everything in it. It is more functional, and at the same time very intuitive easy to use program. Has a great set of features, there are layers, plug-ins, base elements and furniture that can be downloaded from the Internet:

Beige color blocks are marked with a smaller length than a standard concrete block to be cut.

The project also drew to the size slabs. The program allows you to put down all the necessary sizes.

As the story of the construction stages in subsequent articles, I will be going back to this project in detail. Now it's just a small insight into the project and programs that use that you would have an idea about the design possibilities of the house on their own.

At the moment, the project is still unfinished. There were some thoughts on the overlap of the second floor. Out of their uniqueness.

In SketchUp same design brick furnace, namely: heating stoves poryadovkoy. You can take a free furnace-up of some books and redraw poryadovkoy by its size.

Council:

If you are designing your own home and it is you have planned a two-story, be sure to consider all the requirements for the stairs. Namely, step height ~ 170mm, length 270mm ~ stage. Size and design house along with staircases. I had to go through a lot of options, as ladder painted after construction of the foundation. Something he found a compromise. But I do not say that I am delighted with him:

Various subtleties and nuances in the design very much. All one needs to take into consideration: ventilation, ease of location openings and windows.

In future articles I will try to explain your choice in the direction of certain types of materials and structural features of the house: the type of foundation and floors.

Read more: Options for the foundations of the house. My choice

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