Showing posts with label elevators. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elevators. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Step Back in Time

The Grand Gazebo Cottage will take you back to an age where time slows down and relaxation is a way of life.

Grand Gazebo Cottage
This is a grand and sumptuous house with four exterior gazebos connected by wrap around porches. Spend your evenings relaxing on the porch with a lemonade in hand. Inside you will find spacious rooms perfect for comfortable and tranquil living.

The gazebos provide a lot of outdoor living space.
All of the Southern Cottages House Plans are designed by an architect to give you style with a comprehensive design at a price you can afford.
  
Let us help you create a building to serve your needs at www.mcleodarchitect.com.
View our architect designed house plans at www.southerncottages.com.

Monday, August 11, 2014

Planning For A Residential Elevator

An important aspect of residential home design is taking into account our clients current and future needs.  This includes finding out if an elevator is something required now or will be in the future. 

If you are starting from scratch and designing a brand new house, an elevator can be planned for easily.  You have two options:  you might build your house with the elevator installed from the beginning or a designated space can be planned into the house now so that in 10 or more years the elevator can be installed easily.  Either way, you can work with your architect to find an ideal location for the elevator shaft in the house. 

You might be in the situation where you need to add an elevator to your existing home.  This requires working with your architect to decide the best place for the elevator shaft.  Since the shaft must line up on each level of your home there are a few questions to think about.  Do you already have an ideal location to add an elevator?  Which spaces in your home can be altered to work around the best shaft location?  You might also wonder how exactly an elevator can be installed into your existing home.

The company Adapted Home & Business, out of Portland, has put together a video series about an elevator retrofit.  They have made four short, two-minute videos where they describe how they install a residential elevator into an existing home.  Here is the first video.







Let us help you create a building to serve your needs at www.mcleodarchitect.com.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Room To Entertain

 
Winds Cottage with Shed Roof

If you have beach front property & love to entertain, the Winds Cottage will give you everything you need: a large living room with ocean view & adjacent kitchen & dining room. It has 5 bedrooms on the upper two floors for weekend & summer guests. The spacious back deck is perfect for enjoying your evenings with friends. Check it out by clicking this link. All of the Southern Cottages House Plans are designed by an architect to give you style with a comprehensive design at a price you can afford.

Winds Cottage first floor.

Winds Cottage with Gable Roof

Let us help you create a building to serve your needs at www.mcleodarchitect.com.
View our architect designed house plans at www.southerncottages.com.
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