Home Plan is the most important aspect of ‘Home Planning Process’. Homeplan is a preliminary picture about how your home will look like after completion. So it is a very important to choose your homeplan very carefully to avoid any frustration or hazard while actual home construction process. How you will avoid such frustration? Answer is simple. Involve your family member into choosing the homeplan. Discuss with them their requirements. Involving family in the decision process will boost the enthusiasm of your family members too.
Let’s see the factors or things you need to consider while choosing the home or house plan:
Land or Plot Conditions: If you have your own plot and already you have decided to build a home at that place, see what type of soil or land is that: Soft soil, hard rock, clay type etc. Accordingly you have to decide the foundation type of your home.
Style of Home: Here you need to decide the style of your future home: modern or traditional. There are thousands of styles of home plans available to choose from, Just try to find what you and your family like.
The Size of your family and their requirements has to be considered while choosing the home plan. Ask your spouse what she need. Think over the age and needs of your children. The common necessities are living room, kitchen, bed rooms, bathrooms, toilets, visitor’s room, porch, garage for your car, store room, basement, prayer room etc. Think on such aspects and decide what and how may rooms you require.
If your plot, where you are building a home, is small, then you can consider for double story / level home. Double storey home can save cost of plot or you can have more options for garden and landscaping around your home.
Future Requirements of your family may vary than the present one. What are these requirements? You know better than me. Isn’t not it? So why not consider on those now?
You need to maintain a perfect balance with your budget and your requirements while choosing a perfect home plan.
Besides above factors, geographical and weather conditions is also important factor which affects the choosing style of your home. Specially roof of your home largely depend on the weather conditions of your geographical area.
