WHAT IS YOUR DESIGN PERSONALITY?

There are all kinds of home styles to pick from. Examples include Contemporary, Cape Cod, Colonial (French, New England, Georgian, Etc) , Victorian, Prairie Style, Arts & Crafts, Greek Revival, Frank Lloyd Wright, Queen Anne, Tudor, Neo-Classical, Ranch, Split, Traditional, Modern, Country, Farm, Bungalow, French Country, Craftsman, and the list goes on. What is your design personality?

Often, builders steal home plans back and forth from each other adding different design elements to try and make them look like one particular design style or another. Everyone has seen these homes; they are a cross section of a contemporary design with a large sunburst window over the entry door with craftsman style corbels and a brick exterior. The home looks “OK”, but there is something lacking. You know it doesn’t look quite right, but you are unable to articulate exactly what the problem is.

The same thing can happen when a client designs the interior floor plan and then asks the designer or builder to make it look like a specific design style. To make a design style look atomically correct and eye appealing, the design needs to consider things like massing, window placement, window style, window grids, window trim, roof pitches and styles, roof overhangs, garage and garage doors, colors and materials. Because of all these considerations, it is best to settle on a design style before you start designing the interior floor plan.

A home does not have to be historically accurate to be eye appealing, but there does need to be enough design elements to tie the design together.