This page shows various house designs that I haven't yet completed. Some are on their way to completion very soon. Some others haven't seen significant progress in a while. Regardless, these are teasers for interesting things to (probably) come.
This is a very nice Victorian Shingle Style design that's been remodeled to current standards. It's coming along quite well, so look for it to be completed, soon.
Possibly next.
Like many designs, I start simply with an initial inspiration that soon leads to a rough study. Since I'm never sure if these studies will ever make it past the investigation phase, I usually don't think to post them (at least not right away). This design was begun while I was on my honeymoon (you can't frolic all the time), and only recently brought to a state where I think it can be posted.
This is a very large house (over 5,600 sq. ft.) with a 3-car garage, 3 very large bedrooms upstairs, plus guest/mother-in-law suite in the back behind the garage. It's not a typical design, for me, but it's mostly worked out. I still don't entirely like the front facade, but I am working on it.
This design was begun not long after Florida Cracker #1, but for the longest time had so many issues to work out that I never brought it to a state where it could be posted to this Works In Progress page. Now it's coming along, and should be "completed" relatively soon.
This design is coming along. It's more or less a typical suburban tract house. Not too much else to say except that it has a couple of things about it I like.
This one is labeled as a tract house, but it's both larger and nicer than one. I
haven't renamed it, yet, but I predict it will become Country Home #4
#6 (or
something like that). I suppose that means I will need to start a
Country Home series. Yes, it most certainly does. Already started a
Country Home Series.
Update: HDP 7.0 has been giving me a few "fits" with some of the differences between the old and the new. Most significantly is the way the new program handles ceiling planes. In the old program, you could put a custom ceiling plane anywhere you needed ... well, a ceiling. In the new program, the only thing that can be over a custom ceiling plane is a roof. What a pain!
I worked on this design in late December, 2005 and throughout January. I don't know why I forgot about it, but it's here, now. It's a Prairie style design, but I'm not completely satisfied with the brick and siding. I know I've changed materials several times, and still I'm not happy. Overall, though, it's a pretty decent design, even if it does look rather like something from the 60's.
Update: I have decided to convert the carport (at the left in the image, above) into a garage that juts out in the front to the left of the front door. Seems to work somewhat better, and the house doesn't look quite so wide across the front.
This recent design is all boxes and angled rooflines. In some respects its very trite and predictable, but nonetheless, I do like the composition. That's the living room on the left, with the high round window. Two bedrooms are upstairs on the right, while the master bedroom is below them, in the back. It already has some interesting interior views working, so ... stay tuned.
Update: As of July, 2007, I have been working on the interior for this, so expect it completed relatively soon. The living room area is particularly interesting, even though I lowered the roof pitch, somewhat.
As of late November, 2005, this house design was my current work-in-process. I've been slowly working out the various shapes and angles of this considerably avant garde design. Shown here is the (still) rough front view. That's the front door on the right, and on the left (below the protruding master suite wing), is a small deck in front of the dining room.
Update: As of mid-January mid-May 2006, I haven't worked very much more on
this design, spending most of my time on other designs. I guess I get bored
easily.
This house design, in green stucco with a dark green (almost black) roof, has three floors. The first floor (carport level) has the main entrance, a family/entertainment room, bath, laundry, and a two-car garage with storage. The second level, which is the main living level, has the living, dining, and kitchen, and the master suite. The top level has 3 bedrooms and a bath. The stairs spiral up the left-hand tower.
Update: I have been horsing around with the curved walls in this design, recently (end of May, 2006) and trying to get this design to look "right". Perhaps I will soon wrestle the walls into submission, and I can finish this design. Yes, it's long overdue, but it reminds me of how difficult curved walls can be to work with.
This house design has a brother that is almost identical to it, except that the main entry of this design is 1/2 level up from the 2 lower bedrooms. The kitchen is over the garage as in the other design, but the family room is over the master suite, more central to the house. I like both of these flat roof designs, though I recognize they aren't for everyone.
This house design is just over 2,000 sq. ft., and is arguably the smallest of the "line". It still features 3 bedrooms, and though there isn't much about it to excite one, I still like the layout of the master bath, and the spa tub nestled cozily under a low roof. This roof can be seen on the second floor, on the right of this image.
I seemed to have forgotten that I had these two house designs (this one and the one following, SC #16). In some ways these designs simply retrace well-trodden ground, but they still do have some nice features in them.
This design, at 2,620 sq. ft., has a dramatic stairwell highlighted by the bank of 9 high windows (visible right-center in the image), and it shares the feature of a large, circular master bath with high clerestory windows around the perimeter (center, upper floor).
This house design features a similarly circular master bath with clerestory windows. The second story master bedroom overlooks the living room. In the image, the living room front windows have the inverted V-shaped dormer over them. This is a smallish house, 1,950 sq. ft., with only 2 bedrooms (master and one additional).
This house design almost defies categorization. I was looking for a "livable work of art", a sculpture garden of basic shapes and primary colors set against a steep hillside.
This house design has a very high, open entry that extends through to the back of the house. It has a large, spacious master suite on the main level, along with a 3-car garage and a kitchen that is open to the family room above. There are some very nice features in this house that took a long time to work out.
This is both a predecessor and successor to SL #2, above. It precedes the above design in its garage layout (front right instead of back right), but some of the roof line treatments (the turn ins at the gables) are ideas I got after fixing the roof in the design above. I am undecided about some features, so more thought is warranted.
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