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Designing Your Dream Space: The Ultimate Guide to Great Rooms and Their Key Features

Unlock the secrets to crafting the perfect Great Room, where the fusion of open design, elegant architectural details, and flexible seating arrangements converge in a harmonious living space. Discover the allure of open concepts, seamlessly connecting the heart of your home, and embrace the charm of architectural details like exposed beams, crown molding, and wainscoting. Your Great Room becomes a versatile oasis for gathering, entertaining, and relaxation. Your dream living area awaits!

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What is a Floor Plan? A Complete Floor Plans Guide

Understanding floor plans is an essential part of owning a house. Whether you are building your home, deciding on the best layout for your home renovations, or purchasing a house outright, here is how to read a floor plan and even design one of your own.

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How Much Square Footage Do I Need for a New Home?

Knowing “how much square footage do I need” when building or buying is something every potential homeowner absolutely has to consider. Even if you find the perfect style of home, the question that’s always asked is, “Is it big enough?”

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7 Floor Plan Mistakes to Avoid in Your New Home Design

Building your ultimate family home can be a fun, rewarding – if overwhelming – experience until you realize the home plan you’ve chosen has some very crucial design errors. Avoid dream home regret by watching out for these common mistakes!

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Pros and Cons of Side-Entry Garages

As homeowners integrate garages into their design plans, they face a number of options for the structure – detached? attached? front-entry? rear-entry? side-entry? – that may fit their needs and wants. Here’s a look at the side-entry garage, its advantages, and why it may be right for your next home.

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The Advantages of a U-Shaped House Design

Focusing on the connection between indoors and outdoors, U-shaped house designs borrow from Spanish-Mexican haciendas and the perspectives of architectural pioneers Charles and Henry Green, Joseph Eichler, and Cliff Mays on the home’s relationship to natural light. Reinvented for contemporary times, the design makes sense for both traditional and modern homes.

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4 Advantages of L-Shaped House Plans and How They Solve Common Problems

From traditional to modern and contemporary homes, quaint cottages, and bungalows, there are architectural styles for everyone’s wish list. But there’s nothing like the L-shaped house when you want to combine functionality, flexibility, and style. Here’s a look at plans designed in an L-shape – and they’re not necessarily Ranch homes.

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Top Trends in House Design in 2023

The Plan Collection shares their predictions for the top trends in home design in 2023. From floating sinks to butler's pantries, you will definitely want to include these in your home build or remodel.

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Common Bathroom Design Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Great bathroom design is less about how it looks (which is also important) and more about how it works. A new bathroom doesn't come cheap, so you want to do it right. Here are 10 common design mistakes professional designers see in a bathroom designed by someone without experience.

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9 Common Mistakes to Avoid in Open Floor Plans

A popular trend in home architecture, the open floor plan continues to fascinate home buyers and those looking to renovate older homes. If planned and decorated properly, a home with an open floor layout can be spectacular. We look at the challenges of open plan living – and how to avoid design mistakes.