liveability At A Glance
liveability at a Glance™
How does the home Live?
Turning the dream of building a home into reality can be a daunting challenge, with thousands of decisions along the way.
Choosing a plan can be intimidating because it’s often difficult to visualize the finished home and how it will live.
To make it easier, Design Basics has created a new way to present floor plans to help you narrow the search for a design that fits your personal lifestyle and needs.
Each floor plan in this plan book is shown in a conventional layout and a color-coded version that highlights four different categories especially important to women:
Entertaining(yellow), De-Stressing(blue),Storing(orange) and Flexible Living (green).
entertaining
Yellow areas encompass:
- Formal rooms for entertaining
- Informal, open living spaces
- Outdoor "rooms"
- Kitchens that encourage guests to gather around a snack bar
- Rooms for media related get-togethers
(watching movies or sports events) - Areas Ideal for groups playing cards or board games
de-stressing
If you're looking for ways to de-stress your life, you'll appreciate homes with a lot of blue spaces. Some blue areas offer relaxation, such as:
- Personal getaways
- A privately located master suite
- A walk-in shower or whirlpool
- A quiet porch or craft area
Others provide unusual organizational features such as:
- Split vanities
- Mudrooms
- Drop zones that keep keys, brief-cases, umbrellas, cell phones and lap tops in one convenient spot
storing
If you never have enough storage, you'll be drawn to homes with more orange areas, that highlight:
- Extra storage capacity in the garage or laundry room
- Rear foyer storage
- Generous kitchen pantries and linen closets
- Over-sized bedroom closets
- Additional unfinished areas in the basement or on the upper level
flexible living
Green areas designate rooms that offer flexible living spaces that can adapt to unique situations
- Rooms that can be combined to create in-law-suites
- Home offices
(occasionally even his and her offices) - Bedroom/bath arrangements that work well for blended families
- Music rooms
- Home school rooms
- Craft or gardening centers
- Offices that can become dining rooms
- Dens that become guest rooms
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