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Architects talk about form (how it looks) and function
(how it works). They are important. User-friendliness
is a part of function, a part that architects, designers and
builders generally ignore.
Why
should you put up with irritations that could have been avoided
in the first place? It's not that you can't walk from the
sink to the dishwasher dripping every dish - IT'S THAT
YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TO!
The problem is not
trivial. The New-Home Checklist, for example, lists over 300
different details that can impact on your life in your new
home. Some are simply choices you should make (or someone
else will) and some are user-unfriendly things you're likely
to want to avoid. These are all discussed in Build It Right!
As long as more thought is given to looks and little,
if any, to user friendliness, people will buy what they think
is attractive. We have become so caught up in how the house
looks, in the architectural styles with the latest innovations,
that we forget we're going to have to live in it too.
This attitude, where user-friendliness is ignored,
is changing. Ferguson says he was impressed by Sun City Grand,
a Del Webb subdivision outside of Phoenix where the user was
finally taken into consideration in the design and construction.
In the meantime, it's still very much caveat emptor,buyer
beware.
Even though we're
not selling houses, we do want people to get a better, user-friendly
home. Build It Right! will
help do that.
Next, see Everyone
Wins for help with yours.
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"Build It
Right! shows how to include function into your
decisions and make your new home a better and more pleasant
place, being certain that it is built for the people who
will be living in it."
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Build
It Right! and the
Bonus New-Home Checklist
are available for shipment.
See Order
the Book.
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The Sun City
Grand solution to the sidle-toilet problem.
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