I am a residential architect in Boston thinking of moving to New Orleans with my wife. I specialize in designing in historical styles, so NOLA seems like it would be a good fit. I assume that Post-Katrina there is a lot of construction going on. Does anyone know if firms are hiring? I haven’t had much luck finding job listing online. Thanks!
I don’t personally know. You should call the local architecture schools and ask:
http://architecture.tulane.edu/home/
http://www.name.uno.edu/
Good luck!
I am a residential architect in Boston thinking of moving to New Orleans with my wife. I specialize in designing in historical styles, so NOLA seems like it would be a good fit. I assume that Post-Katrina there is a lot of construction going on. Does anyone know if firms are hiring? I haven’t had much luck finding job listing online. Thanks!
I don’t personally know. You should call the local architecture schools and ask:
http://architecture.tulane.edu/home/
http://www.name.uno.edu/
Good luck!
I’m a residential design student, and I’m trying to pratice designing homes to where people actually like them, it would be very helpful if anyone who is welling to tell me what they would like in there dream home.
you must tell me how many bedrooms how many bathrooms
how big
how big of a kitchen
do you want a living room, family room, Den or all three or just two of them
how many floors
car garage,
square footage
anything else you can think of.
this would be very helpful, thank you
A home does not have to be massive, just comfortable so you can actually afford it. Location is extremely important.
We were lucky to find A country subdivision with no through traffic ( one way in and one way out) with lakes and deed restricted. It has proven to be an excellent place to raise a family and live our life.
I designed our home 30 years ago and we have been here for 29 years, raising children and then caring for senior parents. It has proven to be an excellent home on 1 1/2 acres, with a big back yard . Surprisingly It has been 98% perfect, there are only the fewest inconsiquential things I would change. A light switch location and some additional bathroom windows. But over all it has been excellent. .
It is an open plan, the front covered, tiled porch is 10 x 12,into the entry ( 7 by 10) opening into a family room (no formal living room) we found we didn’t use it enough in our previous house. 17 by 20 family room or great room . It could have been 18 by 22 and been a bit better.
The dining room and kitchen are 16 by 29 and open to one another .
We have 3 baths and three bedrooms, a den (this is my Husbands built in office) and a bonus room with a full bath. (it is a room that through the years has been used for sewing, guest bedroom, workshop, exercise room, what ever it was needed for. One of the bathrooms is attached to this bonus room and leads into a 30×12 sun room that overlooks the oak tree filled back yard..
We have a fireplace, but in Florida I would not necessarily do this again. It is expensive and takes up space we could have used.
The master bath is 10×20 Including closets, with a tub, and shower two seperate vanities, comode stall, the master bedroom is 12×20 (it should have been a bit wider. The bonus room is 9×19, den 11×14, BR 13×14, BR 11×11.
The garage is 22×24, an oversized garage is good and always plan on an 18′ wide door, 16′ is too skimpy to get two cars into comfortably, and you do it every day at least once.
The Family room is sunken two steps from the entry and dining room and kitchen (it has a large bar opening to the kitchen) The master bedroom is sunken the same as the family room. Our ceilings are 8 to 9 feet depending on the room. But I have never cared for cathedral ceilings anyway.and they were not IN when I designed this house.
Our home is in Florida, one level, stucco, with color in the stucco, it has never required paint in 29 years, just pressure washing every 3 to 5 years.
Our square footage is 3100 living and nearly 500 for the garage.
Good luck with your dream. If I were young again that is what I would do. I loved designing our home, It took about 2-4 years. Enjoy!!
when designing a kitchen you think of a triangle to place the main appliances (and the sink).. is there something like that for a floor plan. Any articles or websites that teach how to successfully build a floor plan FROM SCRATCH would be fantastic. I like designing homes for fun in my spare time but I always get stuck trying to come up with a GOOD floor plan. (i fall in the limbo that i dont know where to put the rooms)
I didn’t know there were any. I think it depends on how you want the house to flow. That’s why there are so many floor plans. Roxanne
On a residential project, the cost of a mistake made by a contractor is routinely absorbed by the contractor. In this case, our architect made a design error that will cost us over $1,000 to fix. Is there a similar expectation that an architect absorbs the financial impact of his/her mistakes?
What does your contract with the architect say? Read it and give the architect a call.
On a residential project, the cost of a mistake made by a contractor is routinely absorbed by the contractor. In this case, our architect made a design error that will cost us over $1,000 to fix. Is there a similar expectation that an architect absorbs the financial impact of his/her mistakes?
What does your contract with the architect say? Read it and give the architect a call.
I am in the process of starting a Residential Interior Design company. I have contractors working for me and we want to advertise.
Whats the best way to start this thing up?
Any ideas would be helpful.
Advertise your business on free classifieds, relevant forums and social networking websites. Monitor the response you get periodically to find out what works best. From http://ad5.info
Because the court wants them to get back with their parents eventually.
Because the court wants them to get back with their parents eventually.
such as design and estimates of residential building, commercial building, high rise building, road or bridge construction, steel pole and others.
The design concept is the same for all what you are asking, refer to your text books, the cost estimate varies between the various locations and conditions