Designing a house or a villa can save or waste a lot of money. A careless and unclear design automatically leads to high costs of implementation, mistakes, lack of ergonomics, or an unfriendly look.

A good design, thought, with many details, views, pictures, sections, material lists will sure enough lead to low cost of implementation and the beneficiaries will not be surprised to realize at some point that their house is not what they wanted.

From the point of view of the careful beneficiary to stay within the budget and get the house he wants, here are some of the secrets behind a design:

A detailed brief

You already know what you want to build. When you have decided on buying versus building you thought much about it (if you do not start with this decision, for whatever reason, exercise this chapter because it is very important to have a clear idea of the final goal).

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