From Sue Wastell, Special to Postmedia News
Builders invest considerable energy and funds into constructing and furnishing model homes, knowing that home buyers need to be able to see the size of rooms and traffic flow.
Visualizing a home from a blueprint can be challenging even for experienced builders, let alone for people looking to build their dream home.
A model home with an open concept floor plan will allow you to stand at the stove and the sink, both common standing spots in real life, and see a true picture of how much you will be able to oversee behaviour in the family room — or the line of sight to the TV for your own viewing pleasure while you are busy creating gastronomic masterpieces in the kitchen.
It will also show the pattern of movement required to clean up the table afterward and load the dishwasher and even the path from the dishwasher to the appropriate cabinet.
A colleague recently confided that she missed this last point in a home she had built. She didn’t realize until too late, that the dishwasher was at the wrong end of the island; resulting in her trying to lessen trips back and forth by carrying bigger piles of heavy dishes in each trip. Functionality is truly in the details and models give you the opportunity to test drive a layout!
Model homes are also used to display a variety of finishing and decor options. Where better to see of line of pot lights in the ceiling, or types of flooring and cabinets, shelving and pull-outs, sinks, faucets and showers or countertop and backsplash options etc.
Image. Yael Engelhart, Architectural
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