7. Plan Lab : House Plan Options, Tricks, and Possibilities

Design Options, Tips, and little known tricks.

• Interior Features
  • Door Swings – like family room door related to furniture and traffic.
  • Lighting
  • Traffic Patterns
  • How Spacious it Feels
• CEILINGS
  • type – flat – tray – stepped – coffered, beamed, vaulted, etc….
  • color
  • Lighting
  • Trim – strapping, sculpted drywall, etc…
• Exterior Wall Features – How to change for a New Look
  • Wall surface material
  • Windows Type, Trim, Panes, Shutters
  • Landscaping
  • Lighting
• Interior Wall Features
  • Open Floor Plan
  • Columns
  • Color
  • Baseboard
  • Chair Rail
  • Crown Molding
  • Wainscotting
• Roof
  • Type
  • Roof Slope
  • Roof Details
• Comfort
  • Air Flow – Intentional
  • AC Assist – Extra fans
  • Furniture Arrangement

You can read any story here for FREE – no sign-up, no log-in, simply free. These stories are my way of having fun. Some are comments about the life of writing; some are concepts for future ‘big’ stories; and some are just me going waaayyy out on a limb. Either way, I want you out there with me. Reach for a free story, below, and Enjoy!

• Add a Floor
• Add a Room
• Add a Wing
• Combine Rooms
• Load-Bearing-Walls
• Makeovers – Caterpillar to Butterfly
• Outdoor Spaces
• Improve Curb Appeal

Add a Floor

Sometimes a story has to be flagged as non-fiction, because just calling it a story doesn’t do it justice. Sometimes non-fiction is very serious, other times not so much.

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• Add a Floor
• Add a Room
• Add a Wing
• Combine Rooms
• Load-Bearing-Walls
• Makeovers – Caterpillar to Butterfly
• Outdoor Spaces
• Improve Curb Appeal

 

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Add a Room

Some of these are true, some are partially made-up, some are outright fabrications. It doesn’t really matter as long as they’re fun to read. Whenever I think you need to know the truth of a matter, I’ll say so…maybe.

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• Add a Floor
• Add a Room
• Add a Wing
• Combine Rooms
• Load-Bearing-Walls
• Makeovers – Caterpillar to Butterfly
• Outdoor Spaces
• Improve Curb Appeal

 

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Add a Wing

My mind won’t stop. Creativity is not “ideas on demand,” it’s more like, “ideas no matter what.” I write down the bits of thought, the sand-grains of ideas – pieces of imagination that might be used, puzzle-style, to build a story. Sometimes an idea is the story, and the bits and grains around it become the supporting players.

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• Add a Floor
• Add a Room
• Add a Wing
• Combine Rooms
• Load-Bearing-Walls
• Makeovers – Caterpillar to Butterfly
• Outdoor Spaces
• Improve Curb Appeal

 

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Combine Rooms

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• Add a Floor
• Add a Room
• Add a Wing
• Combine Rooms
• Load-Bearing-Walls
• Makeovers – Caterpillar to Butterfly
• Outdoor Spaces
• Improve Curb Appeal

 

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Load-Bearing Walls – Changing or Removing

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• Add a Floor
• Add a Room
• Add a Wing
• Combine Rooms
• Load-Bearing-Walls
• Makeovers – Caterpillar to Butterfly
• Outdoor Spaces
• Improve Curb Appeal

 

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Makeovers – Caterpillar to Butterfly

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• Add a Floor
• Add a Room
• Add a Wing
• Combine Rooms
• Load-Bearing-Walls
• Makeovers – Caterpillar to Butterfly
• Outdoor Spaces
• Improve Curb Appeal

 

Outdoor Spaces

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• Add a Floor
• Add a Room
• Add a Wing
• Combine Rooms
• Load-Bearing-Walls
• Makeovers – Caterpillar to Butterfly
• Outdoor Spaces
• Improve Curb Appeal

 

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Improve Curb Appeal

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• Add a Floor
• Add a Room
• Add a Wing
• Combine Rooms
• Load-Bearing-Walls
• Makeovers – Caterpillar to Butterfly
• Outdoor Spaces
• Improve Curb Appeal