Panelized Homes Architectural Design

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Show Notes: Adding architectural design details to make the home more enjoyable and code compliant.  Interesting conversation regarding building departments and how they work.  Mechanical design discussion to benefit your new home project. Transcript: Interviewer: Hey everyone. Welcome once again to the Panelized Prefab Kit Home Building Show. With me, as usual, is the President and Founder of Landmark Home and Land Company, a company which has been helping people build their new homes where they want exactly as they want across the nation and worldwide since 1993, Mr. Steve Tuma. Steve, how’s it going my friend? Steve Landmark: It’s an excellent day today. It’s a beautiful day and I think, I think we’re going to talk about architectural plans or something like that, right? Yeah. Interviewer: Yeah, I thought I might ask you a few questions about developing architectural plans and sounds like you’d be up for that. So why don’t we start off simply, let’s just say I’m a customer, a prospective customer of Landmark and I have an idea for a home, how do I go about turning that idea into an actual set of building plans? Steve Landmark: It’s actually a relatively simple process for our customers. We’ve got the full capability of doing the architectural design, structural design, and details for the building permit. So we basically just need a starting point. Interviewer: Right. Steve Landmark: And Steve, sometimes that starting point is “I need a three-bedroom, two-bath thousand square foot ranch” for city a lad or sometimes people say, “Well, I need a three-bedroom with a gaming room, convertible room office, you know guess room type thing with a two-car garage, with a bigger garage to the side for motor home parking. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Steve Landmark: So sometimes if people have that just general idea, a few sentences we can work from there. Other people will sketch things up. They don’t have to be architects you know or really, really trained. They can just kind of draw what they can on a piece of paper and email or fax it to us or text it to us for review. And basically, we take it from there Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Steve Landmark: So what we need to do is just get the concept, what is it you want. People may not know the end result of exactly how they’ll come together but they generally know what they want. They want a two-car garage, they want a basement, they want a three-bedroom, two-bath, the master bedroom being a big suite and then a big eating kitchen. You know with the deck up the back to look at a view of a lake or field or whatever may be that they’re lucky to have on their land. So that’s, that’s a general point, you know it starts with a dream, it starts with the idea and then we could take that idea. Some people have a set of plans, some people may have gone online or sketch something up themselves that’s a little more detailed then we could take it from there. Others have a complete set of plans and generally, we could work with those as well. So basically, it’s the idea, get us your – get us the idea of what you have and then we can help you carry it along from there. So people shouldn’t be intimidated that they need to have professionally drawn plans or that if they sketch something it’s not to scale or you know even dimensions aren’t right. We’ve actually had people draw stuff on a napkin, take a picture of it and text it to us and it’s become a house. Other people will just tell us and then we’ll start with an idea and move forward. So the key of it is that they were fully capable of taking the concept, putting it on paper and making it a legitimate set of plans they could turn in for permits as well as use for the building phases.  Interviewer: Hmm. Now, if I, on your website, you guys offer so – oh, I don’t know, it’s so many different plans to choose from for the average customer.