CodyS-7B

(Front View) (Left Side View) (Back View) (Right Side View) (Back Left Side Angle View) (Second Story Master Bathroom)

For my house design, I chose to create a 2 story structure. Even thought a 2 story structure is relatively cheep to build, compared the one story houses, for my design takes up a lot of land area with a full basement. Also it's costly for all it's decks and balconies. I chose to make the roof blue shingling, so unlike a metal roof, it will have to be replaced around every 20 years. This will make maintenance cost more than what it would be usually. The house I've designed is irrelevant to handicapped or disabled people, just because of the fact of it being two stories. It could be handicap accessible, but that would cost even more money to make it that way. Heating and cooling, as you can see in the Bathroom image, is relatively easy due to vents, which all over the house and are connected to the furnace in the Basement. I haven't installed a cooling system into my house yet, but it won't cost much to run it. There are many solutions to these problems, like instead of a full basement, my house could have a crawl space for the furnace, which would cut the building costs tremendously, because one of the most expensive things, in the construction of a house, is the foundation/basement. I could also change my roof to metal roofing instead of shingling, to reduce maintenance costs. Lastly to reduce costs could reduce the size of, or eliminate some of the decking. In this photo you can see that the distance between my work centers meet the requirements of a kitchen, for the distances are greater than 4 feet, but less than 9 feet. I have no tall appliances cutting between work spaces. My work triangle between work centers is not in the way of traffic, that may enter my kitchen. The kitchen is not crowded, therefor it is easily accessible to any type of person, accept dwarfs and cronic midgets. My kitchen does open into my dining room with a bar, and seating with space to gain access to, and to walk behind. My sink is adjacent to my stove, but across from my fridge. My kitchen contain more than enough landing area/ work prep station space to meet the requirements for a sink stove and just plain counter top space. My Kitchen has doorways that meet the standards for both perfectly able and handicapped people, for the doorways are all open trifold arches that extend over 4 feet in width. As you can see, my dishwasher is less than 2 feet from my sink and is easy to gain access to. In this kitchen, as you can see, I have to waste bin receptacles, one in the cupboard, and the other by the door exiting into the hallway. Also my fridge has easy access with more than enough space for both the door landing areas. You can see here, that i do have a fire extinguisher, by the exit. And finally, my electrical outlets are all in place that you would need, along with the light switch that is by the door that you would use to enter. As you can see in this picture there is proper ventilation for my stove, directly above it. Just as well, you can see my micro wave is at standard height, which is no lower thsn 15 inche from the floor, but no higher than 54 inches from the floor, along with enough counter space to suit it. There is more than enough storage space to meet the needs of any client, accept for Chef Ramsey. At the end of this hallway, there is a staircase. The staircase itself, id in the shape of an octagon, as well as many of the windows surrounding this part of my house. All of these octagons are a form of repitition throughout this part of my design, because they are used frequently. For color in this hallway, I think it has the perfect combination of complimentary colors. Blue compliments orange, and I have dark blue walls with light brown/orange. I also have a light blue ceiling with dark brown stained, wood crown molding. These colors give a clean and crisp feel, that allows traffic to move smoothly. This hallway is long and continues downsatiars, all the way to the kitchen, which gives a lot of free flowing space. The texture here is mostly just smooth painted surfaces, along with smooth hardwood floors, and wood molding. The value in this part of my design is in color for there is great contrast in the two different shades of the same two colors. In the stairwell, there in emphasis on tray ceiling (a form/shape), because it draws the eye, of any one who walks into the room. In this image you will see one form of line in my design. There is a line where the carpet of the dining room, and the lanolium of the kitchen meet, for this shows the seperation between rooms even though they are one room in reality. For the element of color in this room, I made the ceiling red, with cherry wood crown molding, to at a touch of elegance to my dining room. Although blue and red are clashing colors, I think that the subtlety of the blue doesn't clash with the deep and lively red. The main texture difference in this image is between floors. The transition from the kitchen to the dining room goes from smooth linoleum, to rough carpet. The unity between the dining room, and the kitchen, is quite simple to see. The bar, and matching wall and ceiling color, are what tie these two rooms together. This is another part of my house where lines are important in the components of the room. This is my solarium, and the lines I'm talking about are the diagonal lines that make up the frames of the skylight windows in the ceiling. Their purpose is to face the sun and show the actual purpose of the room, which is to allw more sun the enter the room.



In this image of my house, you can see another form of repetition. The curved decking is a form of repetition, in my view, which adds a uniqueness to the design of the exterior of my house.

In this image, you can see the start of repetition in the tri-fold arch windows. Also through most of the interior of the first floor of my house, I have tri-fold arch doorways, which allows all of the rooms to morph into each other fluently.