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Custom Home Architects & Luxury Home Resort Lifestyles: How Getting REaL Can Save You an Hour a Day

Rand Soellner Architect

How many times have you walked into your foyer to greet your guests, took their coats, then had no coat closet there in which to hang the coats, then had to walk back to your bedroom and throw the coats on your bed? How about when you shower daily, if you are a woman, and want to shave your legs, but do not have a tile bench built into the shower to allow you to put your foot on, so that you can comfortably and safely pull your razor over your legs? How about wanting a spacious pantry right next to your kitchen when you need that box of Ronzoni for your next spaghetti dinner? How about wondering why anyone would have ever located your fireplace directly on your main window wall, which Blocks your main view? How about wishing there was more time in a day? What if I told you that having your home designed by a custom home architect could actually Give You An Extra Hour of Time A Day? Sound impossible? It?s not. Read on to find out how this can be accomplished for you by a residential architect?

Does any of this sound familiar? Frustrating, isn?t it? Why do these things and others happen in Your home? Because you probably moved into a home that was designed for someone else, or was not really ?designed? very well, such as by a tract housing builder who had other goals in mind than whether or not you and your family were particularly comfortable, and didn?t really have the home design skills necessary to craft a more pleasant residential experience.

Friends, that?s why there are custom home architects. You might also call them residential architects, home designers, luxury home architects, log home architects, timber frame architects, home architects or similar descriptions. They make house plans, home designs, custom residential designs, log home designs, Arts and Crafts home designs, luxury home designs, timber frame designs and other custom home designs for you. These are the professionals who listen to you, then create design and construction documents for your contractor to use to build your new custom home. The main difference in a custom home and an existing or ?builder?s house,? is that a custom home is created specifically to suit your requested needs and lifestyles to result in a dream home that is tailor made to adjust itself around your every desire, even those about which you may not be aware. That?s where have a luxury home residential architect come into play.

That big work table you have always wanted in a garage shop fits perfectly in new homes designed by custom home architects, even a car lift, if you want one! I have actually provided this for several clients who rebuild vintage cars.

Also, in our luxury homes, you get 2 dishwashers, and 2 kitchen sinks and 2 disposals, too. Why? So that you don?t have to put away the dishes from the dishwasher if you don?t want to, after you have run them and they are clean. Just use the clean dishes from the clean dishwasher and use the other dishwasher as your ?soiled dishwasher,? until that is full, then run that one and then it will become your ?clean? dish cabinet. That saves you about 10 to 15 minutes a day.

We often include a whole-house vacuum system, with multiple ?automatic dustpans? that are vacuum outlets that you gently hit with your shoe to activate, then sweep debris into them, then click them off. Time savings here, perhaps another 10 minutes a day.

The double sink mentioned above, along with the second disposal is so that at least 2 or more people can help prepare meals and even more importantly, help clean up the kitchen after the meal. Time savings for this feature: 12 minutes per day.

Most of our custom home designs feature a 2-person shower in the Master bathroom. This allows husband and wife to shower simultaneously. Time savings: 13 minutes per day.

Location of our pantries and laundry rooms are normally combined in our house plans, particularly for those luxury home plans on which we are the custom home architect. Being a home designer means that we have to think about convenience. So, having your laundry and pantry next to the Kitchen to save steps for whoever spends a lot of time in the Kitchen, saves that person travel distance and allows multi-tasking: stir the pot of goulash, pull out the wet clothes and out them in the dryer, while hanging certain delicates (that can?t stand to be in a dryer) on the clothes rod in our typical pantries, and grab a loaf of french bread from the pantry and back to the bubbling pot on the stove. Combining the laundry and pantry allows you to also save space while using the circulation space and wall thicknesses that would have been wasted to enclose each of them separately. Daily time savings: 7 minutes.

We always place our garages next to the kitchens and their pantries in our custom home designs. This is very logical and practical, in that moving heavy grocery bags from your vehicle into your kitchen and pantry should be convenient, close by and save you time and steps. We have seen plans by other entities who have not provided this adjacency, who are not architects and we really don?t understand what they are thinking. Daily time savings: 6 minutes.

Say, these minutes are adding up! How many do we have? Let?s see: 15 + 10 + 12 + 13 + 7 + 6 = 63 minutes. So, in our custom home designs, our clients can enjoy about an extra hour of more enjoyable activities. We call this a ?Resort Enhanced adjacency Lifestyle,? or REaL. What would You do with an extra hour a day?

Well, how about enjoy sipping your favorite drink while reading your favorite author?s latest novel while gazing at your sensational view? You know, the view that your custom home architects planned for you when they were designing your luxury home. No interference here. Your fireplace is where it should be, over in the corner, where you can easily see it, and your view at the same time. How logical and what an aesthetic enhancement. This is just one more aspect of the Resort Enchanced adjacency Lifestyle or REaL, that having a custom home architect gives you. Get REaL!

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