When it comes to designing your own new build home, as you
are investing so much time and money, it is important to avoid making mistakes
during the planning stages. It is always recommended to work with skilled
building contractors to make sure your home will be built to suit you and your
family. It is also crucial that you should choose new build professionals who
are experienced in creating purpose built family homes.
You may feel that you have properly thought through all of your plans to build your dream home, but have you looked at your plans from every angle? Whilst you may have spent a lot of time thinking about what will work for you and what you will need, there is a good chance that you won’t have spent much time thinking about what won’t work for you and what you won’t need.
Here are our top 5 mistakes to avoid when building a new home for your family:
Overall Planning – When you are working with new build professionals in Birmingham to design your home, it is absolutely crucial to take your family’s lifestyle and habits into consideration. What will your family need in the short term, but also in the long term? If you have children, is your new build home design suitable for them, and in the future, will your home be suitably for elderly people, or if not, will it be easy to make modifications? Essentially, when looking what the overall planning of your ideal home, what will you need from it?
Space Planning – Unless you plan to build an absolutely huge home where space isn’t an issue, careful space planning is essential. Think about the overall space that your property will cover, and then consider how much space you will need for each room, as well as creating enough storage space.
Room Placement – It is always worth spending a lot of time thinking about room placement; deciding where is the best place for each room to be to best fulfil its function. In any house, certain areas will naturally be louder, or busier and messier, so it is important to take this into consideration. If you are unsure where the ideal placement for each room is, you can talk to your specialist building contractors.
· Bedroom – Try to keep the master bedroom as far away from outside noise and traffic as possible. It also makes sense to keep the master bedroom as far away as possible from living areas. If your house is planned on one storey, you should locate the master bedroom at on opposite end of the house to the main living space, whereas in a two storey house, avoid placing the master bedroom directly above downstairs living areas.
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Kitchen – It makes sense for the kitchen to be
placed near a main entry to the house. For example, when you bring in the
groceries, rather than traipsing around living areas in your dirty shoes to get
to the kitchen and put your shopping away, you can walk straight into the
kitchen. A popular choice is to place your kitchen near a back, side or garage
entrance.
Lighting – Many houses are poorly lit. First of all, you should try to have as much natural light as possible by including many windows in your house design. With windows as large as possible, natural sunlight can be your main source of light. Try to plan your home so that your main living spaces are in the right area of the house to get light at the right times of day.
Make your own decisions – It is crucial to find new build professionals that will be on hand to give you useful advice throughout the design and build of your home, but will leave you to make the ultimate decisions. You know better than anyone what you and your family need, so building contractors should respect this and work with you to build your ideal home.
Pantheon Construction are building contractors that specialise in new build homes in Birmingham. For more information on the services that they can provide, you can visit www.pantheonconstruction.co.uk.
