Life-Based Architecture - Your Home Your Life

Record your life by listing every daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly activity. Guide your budget allocation and create a truly custom home that fits your life, avoiding regrets.

Evaluate your life within life based architecture by aligning activities with core values to design a home that fits your lifestyle, balancing privacy, light, accessibility, and maintenance.

Include the people in your life in the design process, uncover why they want certain features, and meld dreams creatively to design a home that makes everyone happy.

Break your life into spaces by assigning activities to rooms, creatively combining functions for efficiency, while aligning designs with your values and energy efficiency.

Design your life-based architecture by creating your spaces and planning items, floor space, and storage in two steps, then combine them into a flowing layout to save time.

Assign a dollar amount to each space using your area’s cost per square foot, then compare to a value like Hawaii trips to decide what to sacrifice.

Use bubble diagrams to map space relationships and flow before detailing dimensions, aligning the home with your life by showing movements with bubbles and arrows.

Prepare a dimensioned final layout to produce a blueprint for your home, detailing exterior wall dimensions, interior wall distances, room sizes, windows and doors, furniture layout, and landscaping lines.

Draw exterior elevations on graph paper to visualize walls, windows, doors, and roof lines at scale, explore styles, and align your home with your values for a professional-ready design.

Explore when to use a drafter versus an architect, learn how blueprints and engineering are handled, and pursue a regret-free, well-designed home that makes you happy.