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You have been cooped up in your apartment or existing aging house, thinking: Time to start planning for my spring project!  And there is no better time than right now to get started on that new house or residential renovation.  Of course, before it can be built, it has to be designed.  And theres no better professional available than a residential architect.

The winter, just after the major holidays,  has always been a time of new projects at Rand Soellner Architect and this year is no exception.  Soellners trademarked term: HOME ARCHITECTS ^TM says it all: they design houses all over the USA, the Americas and the World.  The Soellner firm often begins planning for client projects during the winter, so that when warm weather arrives, work might hopefully begin on his clients proposed new houses and renovations.

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Soellner is receiving record traffic on his website: www.HomeArchitects.com , as he typically does in the early months of each year.  People seem to want get through Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day in order to have the time they need to focus on efforts for a major new undertaking like a new house or renovation of an aging residence.  Soellner is seeing from 72,000 to 84,000 hits on his website a year, and visitors are on the rise.  Thats about 7,000 people a month, and 230 average a day, however, recently Soellner noticed a spike of 315 visitors on a Sunday.  Thats over 13.1 visitors an hour, or 1 visitor approximately every 4-1/2 minutes.  Thats a lot of interest in residential design and planning for spring projects!

Soellner enjoys getting projects started early, so that his clients can understand how his designs fulfill their functional and aesthetic requests, long before they are built.  Thats one of the advantages of starting Before you need a residential design: so that you have the time to understand the physical and economic implications of your project well before you want construction to begin.  Planning early is what it is all about.

Some people prefer to wait until the warm weather is here, but they discover that they cant immediately begin to build then.  They first need a design.  And this is going to be their dream retirement house.  So do you imagine that they what a quickie design out of a magazine or other source of designs that have nothing to do with their desired lifestyle and their site?  No, of course not.  They want a design custom tailored to what they want.  And how to you find such a design?  You engage a residential architect who designs the sort of houses that appeal to you.

That bears repeating: How do you find the design that works for you? YOU ENGAGE A RESIDENT

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For those of you who are frequent visitors to our Log and Timber Home Blog, you may have noticed that little bar at the bottom of each post that gives you the option to “share.” This button is located in many locations throughout the PrecisionCraft website and is a tool that makes it easy to use your favorite social tool, email or printer.

With up to 50 networking options, the AddThis button allows you to move beyond Facebook to post and share the log home plans and articles that inspire you. Twitter, Digg, Reddit, LinkedIn and more are just a click away. If you know someone specifically that would be interested in seeing a plan you love, it also allows you to email the page link directly as well as print it out.

By simply clicking the share button and selecting the outlet you wish to deliver the plan or article through, you can instantly connect with family and friends on ideas you love for your future log or timber home.

Based on activity, here are the most shared floor plans from 2011. Did

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The intervention in the Santini Stores, emerges from the joint interest from the owners of the brand to become the evolution with the brands marketing, opening their own stores and from SHINE to generate a brand new design image, making a clear statement about the brand.

Two words, stylish and fashion, this implicate the development of a daring architectural product without reaching excess.

The development of design started with the main wooden-storefront, which was experimented with paper strips, that in a figurative way evokes the S from the brand. The soft shapes and the gray color predominates into the space with the main intention of offering the user a light and cozy space.

About this, the selection of materials comes, the warm ones, that let us take the fluency and style, and the stones and glass giving spatial balance.

All the stores have a spatial duality, the wooden combination with light tones, and the dark tones with stony floors, this because the dichotomy between womans and mens sections.

The design over the stores goes from the small scale to the detail, everything belongs to design.

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Luxury Residential Architects HOME ARCHITECTS ^TM 1.828.269.9046

Projects all over the USA & the World    HOME ARCHITECTS ^TM for wherever you are.

Timeless Custom Home Designs | Building Architecture | Timber Frame | Mountain homes

Welcome to the 2011 Christmas & Holiday season.  With the recent surge of the Stock Market, and the conclusion of at least one major battlefront, hopefully we will all have more reasons for which to be thankful, ending this year on a positive note and moving forward into 2012.

Our nation and the World have been through much during these challenging times.  The one thing that remains constant is everyones desire to have a safe haven: their home.  A crackling warm fire in the fireplace, savory cooking in the kitchen, happiness and love with your family in the one place that is sacred: your house.

Having a house designed that allows you to enjoy the beautiful views to your land is just one of the reasons to engage an architect to design your dream residence.  And it does not matter that perhaps this concept might be more compact than you might have imagined previously.  Quality can still be built into anything, regardless of the size.  Diamonds are worth more than lumps of clay.

Having the rooms of your house custom designed to be the dimensions that you need to properly function in those rooms is another reason to hire a professional to design your house.  Builders build.  Architects design.  Asking a builder to create or modify a residential architectural design is like asking a carpenter to check out the discomfort you might be having in one of your teeth.  Or like asking your architect to build the house.  Different professions exist because the people in each of them are carefully educated, trained and experienced to perform those specialized tasks and to do them well.  It has been said that you dont really get good at any particular profession until you are over 50 years old.  As complicated as things are these days, there is probably a lot of truth in that statement.  That is why many people want to see a few gray hairs on the heads of the people they hire; to know that they have been at it long enough to be experts at it.  And that sounds like a wise precaution.

Having that large Gourmet Kitchen with the big island and all the appliances you have always wanted is another benefit of having an architect design your house.  The design professional will create your design Around the things that you want, rather than another approach.  Always wanted Outdoor Living Space?  Screened and covered?  That can be arranged!

Have you grown weary of maintaining your aging, rotting house?  Your new residence can be designed by an architect to have exterior siding, soffits and downspouts that wont rot, wont burn, that bugs cant eat, and that only require minimal maintenance every 7 years or so.  Doesnt that sound wonderful?

There are even new options that are coming on line, through companies like Rand Soellner Architect, that can provide you with PhotoVoltaic roof shingles, so that the roof shingles of your house provide up to 50% of your electrical needs!  Talk about sustainability!

There are windows that your architect can specify and detail, that are downright economical and never need painting, cant rot, have insulated Low-E glass and are Energy Star qualified.

You can have exterior and interior rockwork, multiple fireplaces in Living Rooms, Dining areas, Master Bedrooms and Bathrooms, Family Rooms and wherever you want them.  You can have accent walls of wood siding inside, if you wish, wherever you want them.  Wood ceilings and wood plank floors for much less than many people have invested in such things.  If you engage a knowledgeable residential architect.

What many people do not know is that your house architect can design in many features that can cost less, yet provide additional safety and durability into your residence.

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How much do you know about aluminum windows? Did you know that aluminum windows are mostly made out of recycled aluminum? The great part about aluminum windows is that you can find them almost anywhere and they look great on all types of homes.

One of the things that you need to understand when it comes to aluminum windows is that they are not that expensive. Since aluminum can be used over and over again it will not get more expensive because there is a large supply of it available. Unlike wood windows which have to be made out of trees, aluminum doesn’t rely on something else in order to be made. Trust me on this one, aluminum casements are great for homes.
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