You will be:
Designing
a floor plan.
Calculating square footage, surface area, and other measurements in
order to complete your home.
Answering
analysis questions based on the floor plan you created.
Phase 3: The Outside of Your Home
Phase 4: The Inside of Your Home
Design The House
You will
begin by designing a rancher-styled home (one-level) that includes a
minimum of 3 bedrooms (with closets), 2 baths, one living room, dining
room (may also be part of an eat-in kitchen), and one kitchen, a
laundry/utility room (or closet) . Keep in mind, these are minimums...
you are free to add other design components to your home.
You will
be drawing the walls and labeling each room. You will need to include
essentials such as windows and doors. Some furnishing such as: kitchen
and baths must be included, however; others are optional.
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Save your floor plan as you work. When you have finished your floor plan, be sure to print a copy! (This is what you will be turning in!). You will also be submitting your saved design code to your teacher so that she may view your home online as well.
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Note: You may choose to build your house to suit a "client" (you'll know what I mean when you visit the site), or you may choose to just design it to suit yourself (in which case just pick a person and ignore them!)
Overall Dimensions
Determine
the square footage of your home.
If cement
for a foundation costs approximately $3.00 per square foot, what will be
the cost of foundation for your home?
The Outside of Your Home
Gutters:
Gutters
must be placed around the outside of your home. Determine the amount of
linear feet of gutters you will need.
Choose
your gutters at:
Go Buy Gutters!
Print out a
picture of the gutters you chose. In order to get credit for this
calculation, the print out must include the length the gutters come in
and the cost!
Calculate
the cost of gutters for your home.
Before
you can calculate the amount of siding you will need, you will need to
determine the height you would like your home to be. Keeping in mind
that your home is one level, determine an appropriate height for your
one level home. (Note: If you do not list your height here, you will
not earn credit for any of the siding questions below!)
Calculate
the amount of siding needed for your home. Be sure to show each
measurement: front, left side, right side, and back of home.
Choose a
type of siding to use.
Get Your Siding Here!
Be sure
to print out a picture of the siding you chose and list the cost.
Calculate
the total cost of your siding.
Grass:
You would
like to have a nice green yard. Choose your grass from the website:
Get
a Green Yard!
Your lot
(term for “piece of land”) is 8000 square feet. Determine the square
footage of your yard (not including your home.
Print out
a picture of your grass. Be sure the print out includes the cost and
coverage of the grass. Determine the cost for the grass. Show your
calculations.
The Inside of Your Home
Choose
one room in your home with an area larger than 144 square feet to use
for this section. Which room will you be using?
Base
Moulding
You will
need to place base moulding in this room. This goes around the
perimeter of the room. Calculate the perimeter of the room.
Choose
your base moulding from the website:
That's some nice mould right there!
Be sure
to print out a picture of the base moulding you choose. Remember, to
get credit your print out must list the length the base moulding comes
in as well as its cost.
Keep in
mind that you don't want to have a bunch of pieced together sections in
your room - it would look sloppy. Without purchasing way too much,
about how many sections of base moulding should you purchase? What will
that cost be?
Paint
You would
like to paint this room. Determine how many square feet you will be
painting.
Using the
website: Some
nice paint knowledge for you...
Determine how many gallons of paint you will need for this room.
This
paint is sold at Lowe's for $28.98 per gallon or $108.00 for a five
gallon bucket. Which should you purchase for your room and why?
You're finished! You will be graded on the quality and clarity of your work. All layouts, print outs, calculations, and conclusions should be evident in your work. You should submit your final product including all the pieces from each phase.