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building a modern home - Johnny Rodgers

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 index A modern home Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved. Ann Douglas A lot of people dream of building a modern home. Or rather, a lot of people dream of living in a modern home. A place of their own, with the people they love, surrounded by functional beauty and considerate form. Thoughts of the process of designing and building the home are often a bit more vague. Working with an architect is assumed. But how do you find an architect? Designing something that matches the photographs you’ve pinned online and dog-eared in your magazines is also imagined. But what is it about them you actually like? Who are you designing the home with and for, and how will you spend your time there? Once you’ve got a design in mind, who is going to build it, and where do you find them? Who else needs to be involved? How much is this going to cost?? Should our home have a cantilever??? If you are serious about building a modern home, you’ll end up needing to answer these and th

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved. Ann Douglas A lot of people dream of building a modern home. Or rather, a lot of people dream of living in a modern home. A place of their own, with the people they love, surrounded by functional beauty and considerate form. Thoughts of the process of designing and building the home are often a bit more vague. Working with an architect is assumed. But how do you find an architect? Designing something that matches the photographs you’ve pinned online and dog-eared in your magazines is also imagined. But what is it about them you actually li

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