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Did you know that licensed architects design just 2-3% of all houses in the USA?
Three Conditions Contribute To The Shortage Of Architect-Designed Homes:
#1 - Custom home design is very expensive. Hiring a licensed architect to design a house from scratch costs between 5 to 15% of the construction budget. It takes hundreds of hours to research, detail, and produce construction documents that correctly depict and instruct the building of a Georgian style house, for example.
#2 - Most places across the country do not require preparation of single-family house plans by licensed professionals. This helps to keep homebuilding costs lower, but delivers too many houses that lack a clear identity, authentic character and are not as desirable as houses that are more carefully conceived.
#3 - Most homes are built out of necessity and local building customs dictate their aesthetics. Theses houses are considered vernacular, or folk, which means that function takes precedence over fashion. Though these houses can be great, most are only different in layout, but appear nearly identical otherwise and lack valid character.
CA Home Plans wishes to bridge the gap between architect-designed custom houses and the average house by providing affordable and carefully detailed home plans with distinguishable and authentic architectural character.
Better architects understand and appreciate the roots and nuances of fashioned architecture. The best residential architects either emphasize and polish established styles or create their own. Thomas Jefferson explored and experimented with Renaissance classicism in his beloved Neoclassical Monticello. Frank Lloyd Wright, along with several of his contemporaries, delivered the Prairie style forming one of the earliest modern domestic architectural fashions, from which the Ranch style borrowed inspiration.
CA Home Plans aims to refine established styles with practical up-to-date layouts that fit your requirements, and offer architecture at an accessible price.
#1 - Custom home design is very expensive. Hiring a licensed architect to design a house from scratch costs between 5 to 15% of the construction budget. It takes hundreds of hours to research, detail, and produce construction documents that correctly depict and instruct the building of a Georgian style house, for example.
#2 - Most places across the country do not require preparation of single-family house plans by licensed professionals. This helps to keep homebuilding costs lower, but delivers too many houses that lack a clear identity, authentic character and are not as desirable as houses that are more carefully conceived.
#3 - Most homes are built out of necessity and local building customs dictate their aesthetics. Theses houses are considered vernacular, or folk, which means that function takes precedence over fashion. Though these houses can be great, most are only different in layout, but appear nearly identical otherwise and lack valid character.
CA Home Plans wishes to bridge the gap between architect-designed custom houses and the average house by providing affordable and carefully detailed home plans with distinguishable and authentic architectural character.
Better architects understand and appreciate the roots and nuances of fashioned architecture. The best residential architects either emphasize and polish established styles or create their own. Thomas Jefferson explored and experimented with Renaissance classicism in his beloved Neoclassical Monticello. Frank Lloyd Wright, along with several of his contemporaries, delivered the Prairie style forming one of the earliest modern domestic architectural fashions, from which the Ranch style borrowed inspiration.
CA Home Plans aims to refine established styles with practical up-to-date layouts that fit your requirements, and offer architecture at an accessible price.
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Steven Corley Randel, ArchitectSteven Corley Randel is a licensed architect in California where he has worked in residential design since 1987. Also a contributing writer at HOUZZ.com, his articles appear regularly for the online shelter-magazine. He has completed more than 100 homebuilding projects, ranging from condominium remodels to new homes in 11 counties and 26 cities within California. Clients have built his home plans in Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming, and Manitoba, Canada.
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