Small Homes
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Call it a cottage, bungalow, cabin, or carriage house, the benefits of designing and building small are becoming increasingly apparent.
These benefits can range from lower construction, maintenance, and energy costs to less tangible features like coziness and the convenience of proximity. Small Homes Photos
A Hunterstruct specialty . . .
Because we focus on small home design, a main challenge is maximizing the effect of a small footprint. Raised or vaulted ceilings – features of Hunterstruct home design – add an airy feeling to rooms, as do open floor plans. Both touches add little to building cost, but greatly enhance interiors.
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Creating open floor plans and vaulted or detailed “feature” ceilings in a home design does much more than create the illusion of space.
These age-old design techniques effectively extend sight lines vertically and horizontally by reducing visual obstructions in the case of partition walls, and by adding depth of field and texture in the case of ceilings, in short, instilling character and interest in interiors.
Choices about window size and placement also add substantially to the smaller home’s charm and sense of spaciousness. Carefully plotted, sound glazing decisions create the enlarging effect of extending an interior space out, while visually inviting the vast expanse of the outdoors to come inside. Small Homes Photos
Small Home Designer/Small Home Builder — That’s Hunterstruct!
A home should also look nice, have pleasant lines complementing the building’s “to be lived in” function. Inside and out, small modifications to the simplest of building shapes add pizzaz. Well chosen finishes will bring these lines to life.
Careful consideration of finishes in terms of shape, texture and material during the design stage will guarantee years of rewards, both practical and aesthetic – the measure of success for any building. Small Homes Photos
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Think ahead! Most home construction in BC requires a permit. Couple this with design time and new homeowner protection procedures, and months can elapse, an important consideration in many BC climes where the building window is short. Planning ahead also allows time for any wood materials to be collected and seasoned. This measure is particularly important if wood decking and siding or post and beam detailing features are in the plan.
As for design time, we’ve found time and again that time spent here always benefits the result – a well thought out, carefully built home that looks great while meeting its users’ needs perfectly.
So whatever you want to call it, think of Hunterstruct as your small house designer and small house builder in one. We’re there to make sure your cabin, cottage, or carriage house will be everything you expect, and more. Contact Hunterstruct today; make us your “one call” small home designer/builder.
Have a look at one of our present Small Home projects at goodforhomes.com
