How To Select Your Readymade House
Article by Stewart Wrighter
If you are in the market for a brand new home but do not feel giddy at the thought of managing a crew of workers or spending hours at the local home improvement store selecting materials, a prefabricated home may be your best bet. By selecting from an assortment of modular home plans, you avoid much stress and save your neighbors the grief of 6 am construction site wakeup calls. Because these structures are built in portions -- or modules -- modular home floor plans are a bit different from their non-transportable counterparts.
Prefabricated buildings are created in factories, and later transported to their destination via truck. You have likely seen one of these structures on the interstate - stacked on the bed of a commercial truck and strapped with a 'wide load' banner - on its way to becoming someone's home. Because they will eventually be transported, these buildings must be manufactured in a way that allows them to be easily transported, and that accommodates final construction requirements. Generally, this means that the house features many support structures and narrower rooms.
This does not mean that buyers are not taken into consideration when it comes to layout -- prospective homeowners can still play a major role in the final outcome of their homes. Although it can be somewhat difficult to both meet the needs of the buyer and eventually transport the home, the prefabricated buildings have become quite the popular choice with homeowners.
A floor plan, or a scale diagram that gives an overhead perspective, can diverge greatly from one home to the next. When selecting your house, there is no shortage of options, meant to meet the needs of a wide range of customers. Buyers can envision their future homes to an even greater extent by perusing a blueprint -- which offers contractors finite details and the exact scale of the building. The home's foundation, footing, framing, roof and kitchen electrical plan are all illuminated in the blueprint. Because of an increased interest in prefabricated buildings, buyers now have hundreds of floor plan options at their disposal. Naturally, anyone buying a home is planning for their future -- and rooms should be tailored to meet the specific needs of residents.
Before selecting your plan, take into consideration your personal lifestyle -- such as how often you plan to entertain guests and whether you would like to have space for them to spend the night, and what rooms will be most often used and by whom. Think about how much privacy you will need, as different layouts can provide more or less privacy within the home. Also consider windows, and how much privacy you want away from your neighbors' prying eyes. Perhaps the major deciding factor involved in selecting a plan is how much space you will need for current or future family members. Think about whether you would like pets, and whether a prospective plan allows for washer and dryer installation.
Prefabricated homes are not mobile homes -- but it is possible to transport them to a vast array of property types. Now that you are armed with the information you need concerning the house diagrams, you are ready to make an informed decision on a home that is right for you and your family.
About the Author
Stewart Wrighter has noticed that havingmodular home floor plans prior to building is an excellent idea. He and his wife looked at severalmodular home plans for their vacation home.
