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Through an ongoing
series of consumer focus groups with women of all ages and
backgrounds from around the country, a revelation emerged that
changed Design Basics understanding of how many women
look at floor plans.
Rather than starting with the elevation when
looking at home plans,
women
often began
by looking at floor plans. Which begged the question, “How
do women look at home plans?” As we delved into this topic,
we learned women look at a plan to determine “how
the home lives.” Further research helped us realize
there were four primary filters through which women evaluate
designs: how the home entertains;
how the home helps her de-stress;
the flexibility of
the home’s design; and the home’s ability to address
her storage needs.
Turning the dream of building a home into reality can be a daunting
challenge, with thousands of decisions along the way. Choosing
a plan can be the most intimidating because it's often difficult
to visualize the finished home and how it will live. To make
it easy we have created a new way to present floor plans to help
you narrow the search for a design that fits your personal lifestyle
and needs.
Color Coded Floor Plans
Each Livability At A Glance® floor plan
is shown in a color-coded version that highlights four different
categories
especially important to women: Entertaining (yellow), De-Stressing (blue), Storing (orange)
and Flexible Living (green). Now you can search home
plans by the relative importance of each Livability
At A Glance® lens. Preference indicators have
been added to the home plan search options, allowing you to identify
how important each of the four aspects— Entertaining, De-stressing,
Storing and Flexible Living—are to you.
There’s simply nothing else like searching
house plans based on their livability. Want to look at homes
with superb de-stressing amenities? Select one of the ‘dots’ at
the right on the de-stressing scale. Because you’ve prioritized
what’s most important, the plans which show up on your
search will likely be more appealing to you. |
