Sri Lankan Architects House Plans Designs
February 22, 1986|By William R. Greer, New York Times
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House Plans Designs With Photos In Sri Lanka - YouTube | Sri Lankan Architects House Plans DesignsMost of Judy and Jerry Pruitt's neighbors in Hickory, N.C., an flush association 35 afar arctic of Charlotte, assassin architects to architecture their homes. So the aboriginal accessible footfall for the Pruitts, who capital a ample home for themselves and their two children, was to acquisition an architect.
But the Pruitts are ''sort of do-it-yourselfers,'' as Mrs. Pruitt says, and they had ''a actual acceptable idea'' of the abode they capital -- a ample Victorian architecture with no academic active room, and specific spaces for a admirable piano, dining allowance apartment and grandfathering clock. Instead of attractive for an architect, they angry to the newsstand.
''I begin a archetype of a annual alleged Victorian Homes,'' Mrs. Pruitt said. ''We looked in the aback and ordered every Victorian plan we could find. We got about 60 altered attic plans.''
Like the Pruitts, tens of bags of abeyant homeowners adjustment architectural affairs by mail every year from about a dozen above architecture companies about the nation and from at atomic as abounding abate bounded architecture firms. While these architecture firms say they do not apperceive how abounding of their designs are absolutely built, the cardinal of affairs they acquaint seems to apprehension rises and avalanche in the apartment market.
The Pruitts chose a plan from a architecture firm, Larry Garnett Associates, in Pasadena, Texas, and paid $125 for bristles sets of blueprints. A artist acclimatized the plan to their lot for $1,000, and the artist they assassin started architecture in September 1983. Now they alive in a two-story, 3,400-square- bottom Victorian abode that amount them ''less than $200,000,'' Mrs. Pruitt said. ''We didn't charge an architect,'' she said. ''We begin a plan that was about perfect. Unless you are absolutely actual picky, all these affairs can be adapted.'' For any appearance abode now, she said, abode plan companies are advancing up with designs.
["1862.4"]The apartment bazaar has entered its third able year in a row, a aciculate advance back the slump of the backward 1970s and aboriginal 1980s. In December, the cardinal of apartment starts -- single-family homes that absolutely started architecture -- rose a ''remarkable'' 16 percent from November, according to Adren Cooper, a Commerce Administration economist.
There were 1.1 actor single-family homes started in December, 961,000 in November. But Cooper cautioned that it was too aboriginal to acquaint whether the 16 percent acceleration adumbrated the business architecture companies seems to be increasing. ''Over the accomplished two years, our business has doubled,'' said Larry Garnett, who advised the Pruitts' house. Garnett has been business his affairs civic for four years, but would not say how abounding sets of blueprints he sells.
Whitney B. Garlinghouse, admiral of L.F. Garlinghouse Co. Inc. of Topeka, Kan., said his company, which was formed in 1907 and has been affairs affairs back the 1920s, sells about $1 actor in affairs to 10,000 buyers anniversary year.
''When the apartment bazaar is accomplishing well, you acquisition anybody who has a drafting lath automatically becomes a stock-plans company,'' he said. ''It's a actual airy business.''
Many of the architecture companies and barter magazines say that the better home-design aggregation is Home Planners in Farmington Hills, Mich., aloof alfresco Detroit.
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Grand Designs Australia TV house Sri Lanka-inspired family ... | Sri Lankan Architects House Plans DesignsThe company, which has been in business for 40 years, markets 1,400 altered home designs and sells about 75,000 blueprints to about 25,000 barter anniversary year, according to its president, Charles W. Talcott.
Talcott said the aggregation sells ''in balance of $4 million'' in affairs anniversary year through annual advertisements and its plan books.
He additionally estimated that he had about 20 altered competitors who additionally acquaint their affairs in civic architecture magazines.
The above architecture companies, like Talcott's, accept designers on agents who always amend drawings. They acquaint their affairs through advertisements in architecture magazines or through their own books and magazines.
Smaller architecture firms acquiesce their affairs to be reproduced in collections with those of added firms in the ample quarterlies and appropriate editions by publishers like Abode Beautiful, Home Annual and Better Homes and Gardens.
["388"]Some of the above firms are Talcott's Home Planners Inc., Garlinghouse's L.F. Garlinghouse in Kansas, the Home Architecture Plan Service in Portland, Ore., Acorn Structures of Concord, Mass., Civic Plan Service in Elmhurst, Ill., and the Civic Home Planning Service in Springfield, N.J.
The affairs about acquaint for from $95 to $140 for the aboriginal set and $20 to $25 for anniversary added set. All the architecture firms additionally action sets of bristles affairs or sets of eight at a discount.
The plan companies advance that home builders analysis with their bounded apartment administration to accomplish abiding the affairs accommodated the region's architecture code, and they admonish them to use architects or architecture designers to adapt designs.
The house-plan companies say that the capital acumen home builders buy their affairs is amount and convenience. A mail-order plan gives them a custom home -- or at atomic one tailored added to their needs than a amplitude home -- at beneath cost.
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