Millsy

I am currently designing a house for the Advanced CAD class I'm in. I have to meet a couple requirements with my house such as; -The house has to be one of the four major types of house design; 1 story ranch, 1-1/2 story, 2 story, 2-1/2 story. -The house has to be less than 3,500 square feet, must include a basement and attic. -Be able to describe/ know the advantages of the different types of houses and certain things that are good, not so good, and bad. My house is a two story house with a basement, It has three bedrooms, 1 master and 2 regular. Two full bathrooms upstairs and downstairs. A walk in closet encompanies the master bedroom. Also included in the house is a kitchen, game room above garage, dining room, living room, and a utility basement used primarily for a workout room, and a place to store food. I am going to eventually develop the backyard and include a pool, shed, and playground. To build my house when It is completed would cost a reasonable amount of money, because of the second story, and the attached garage, garage second level. -In the photo above which shows the front view of my two story house, you can see the height of the ceiling and the complications that might arise when fixing/ cleaning the house. Problems such as cleaning gutters, fixing roofing/ siding, and any other things regarding the roof and second floor would require atleast one ladder, which raises a question of safety. Also with the house being two stories that raises the question "what about handicap acceptability?" Well with the house being two stories along with a basement accesibility is very bad. Some ways I could improve accesibility would be to install an elevator. But that would be very expensive and would raise the electricity bill considerably.

-This plan view displays the second floor of my house, including the garage. As you can see it is quite a large space, which can be a challenge when heating, or cooling a house. The simple fix would be to just put a small space heater in every other room to provide sufficient heat in the winter, but that can be expensive. As far as cooling goes I put as many windows in as I could, they themselves will provide an a natural air current. I am also going to install fans for each room and the hallway, the fans should keep things cool when you don't want to use the windows. Maintenance wise the inside of the house isn't to difficult to clean because the ceiling height doesn't differ from that of a one story that much.

-Standards 1 & 2; The preceding picture shows the dimensions of the doorway to my kitchen which is just a open doorway, so therefore there is now swinging door. The doorway is six feet across which more than complies with the recomended standard of a 32 inch wide doorway. This saves room and can prevent alot of accidents that accompany a swinging door, when going to and from the kitchen. The picture also shows the projected swing area of the door of the refrigerator. As you can see after the area the door would encompany there is sufficient room to manuever around the refrigerator if it were open. Standards 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 ; In the above picture you can see the 'Work Triangle', the area were you will conduct most of your preperation/cooking. My work station area totalls around 20', and no leg is longer than 9' making my work triangle compliant with Standard 3. Also my work stations are not interrupted by a full height tall obstacle so my kitchen is also in compliance of Standard 4. Also pictured in the figure above are the distances between the island and the workstations. The distances are longer than 42', making it compliant to standard 5 and 6. It makes it compliant to standard 5 because there wont be traffic, because of the sufficient distance between work areas. My kitchen is in compliance with standards 6 & 7 because there is at least 42 inches between counters, and at least 42 inches between the island and the wall which is my 'walkway'.

The above picture shows the following kitchen standards compliant with my kitchen; Standard 8; There is 36" of surface area for the sitting area allowing you sufficient space to pull out a chair without interference.. Standard; 9; The place where you sit under the counter is 24" wide, and 24" deep, making it compliant. Standard 10; My cleanup/prep (on the island) sink is situated appropriately across from the two other work stations. Standard 11; There is at least 24" of landing space next to one side of the sink and at least 18" on the other side, making it compliant. Standard 12; The counters next to my sink/s is atleast 36" wide and 24" deep on at least one side of the sink. Standard 13; The dishwasher is placed right next to my auxiliary sink which is on the island. Standard 14; I have placed two receptacles in my kitchen, the first is fixed inside a counter to the right of my prep sink. The other is located next to the doorway in the kitchen. Standard 15; There is almost 4 feet of workspace/prep area on one side of my prep sink and almost 19" on the other side, making my auxiliary sink and surrounding cabinets in compliance with standard 15. Standard 16; Standard 17; There is 4 feet of prep space on one side of my stove, and 5 feet on the other. Also the surrounding cabinets and the stove top are on the same level. Standard 18/19; My ventilation system above my stove is more than 24" above the stovetop, and also the ventilation system vents directly outdoors. Also my ventilation system is correctly sized to my stove. Standard 20; My cooking surface station (stove) is not located under a window, and is not located under drapes, making it compliant to standard 20. Standard 21; The microwave oven is located at exactly 54" above the floor, making it compliant to standard 21. Standard 22; There is about 4 feet of clearance to the swing side of the microwave, making it compliant to standard 22. Standard 23; There is sufficient space for the opening of the oven, and sufficient space next to the oven. Standard 24; I am in compliance with standard 24. Standard 25; I have sufficient countertop space to accommodate all my needs. Standard 26; I have rounded all my countertop edges out, making it compliant. Standard 27; All my cabinets meet the basic requirements for storage. Standard 28; There is sufficient storage space next to my clean up sink/ prep sinks. Standard 29; I have one corner cabinet, located next to the refrigerator. Standard 30; I have GFCI on all receptacles in my kitchen. Standard 31; You can see my lights in the picture above, and you can see each work station is lighted appropriately. In this picture is a specific type of lines present. The edges of the mirror are thin lines, along with the trim of the drawers/cabinets. The side of the full height cabinet is a think line. Not only does this picture show different examples of lines but also different shapes. The Drawer faces are different sized rectangles, and also the Mirror is also a rectangle. In this picture you can see the use of space, I spaced my windows based first obviously on the inside rooms but then on the outside appearance. Without proper spacing between windows, and really any objects things become cluttered and messy In this picture you can see other examples of lines, shapes and also texture. The circular lights, give shape to the room, along with the curved wall in leading into the dining room. Also in this room there is too much space, and something could be added to equal out the spacing between lets say the couch on the left and the back wall by the stairs. But the main thing shown here is the texture of the floor, which is solid wood, and one of the smoothest flooring surfaces you can have. The color in this picture is dark wehn referring to a value scale. That's because I didn't drench the room with unnecessary lights I did this because I was trying to be semi-green by reducing the amount of lights, therefore reducing amount of electricity used by turning off/on the lights constantly.