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Three Ways we can help you to plan a new home
1. Design it from scratch
2. Modify an existing plan
3. Use an existing plan

Questions to answer:
1. How do you use space? How many people will live in the home?
2. What areas do you use the most?
3. What rooms rooms would you entertain in?
4. What activities should you consider when planning a home?
5. How can you combine space?
6. Where will you entertain?
7. Where will guests stay?
8. What areas will you eat in?
9. How will you move around in your house?
10. Do you want 1 or 2 stories?
11. Do you want bedrooms in one area?
12. How many bedrooms?

Things to consider with home site selection:
Possible setbacks, other houses, views, driveway, water source,
sewer location, garden location, garage location, roads, trees, wind direction,
slope & drainage, power & gas resources, pool, play areas.

Other considerations would include:
What services are offered, utilities, zoning, taxes,
schools in the community, police, fire protection?

The Ten Step Plan
1. Look at VLH floor plans and decide what you like or what is close.
2. Measure rooms in your home to get an idea of how
    they are if you you are planning from scratch.
3. Draw all the rooms you would like to their approx. size 1/4"= 1', cut them out,
    and arrange them according to what you think would facilitate the best high
    traffic areas. Try to save time & steps. Keep traffic along walls & try
    to not to move traffic diagonally across rooms.
4. Measure furniture and then plan them into rooms.
    Make sure you have plenty of room left over for traffic.
5. Plan the windows with the approx. size keep in mind that windows are escape
    routes, they have uniform size on each side of the home, that they are
    evenly spaced, and that they provide maximum air circulation.
6. Plan your heating system.
7. Go through plan & fine tune it.
8. Mentally walk through the house imagining each room, where furniture and
appliances will go. Make sure it feels right or keep fine tuning.
9. Draw floor plan on grid paper, label approximate rooms + door & window
    sizes, how they open. Make other notes on the side. If you are
;   modifying an existing plan, note any changes on it.
10. Call VLH We will then help you take the final steps to turn your rough
    into a professional blueprint. After it is approved we will
    begin to build the home of your dreams!

Note: For cutouts & tracing guides of furniture & appliances, see our planning guide booklet

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