| Before any architect starts to build, they sit down | | | | architect will need to hire builders and electrician |
| at a drafting table in a drafting chair and | | | | and plumbers for all of the steps in the |
| brainstorm ideas, write them down and draw | | | | construction process. Depending on the magnitude |
| them out. While sitting there, they may also meet | | | | of the undertaking, more or less amounts of |
| with the person they are building for so as to | | | | people will need to be hired; more for a larger |
| make sure that they are drawing up exactly what | | | | project and less for a smaller one. An architect's |
| they want and wish to see in the final product. | | | | job, however, is never done. He will have to be |
| These preliminary steps are critical in any | | | | present at all times during the project, so as to |
| undertaking that requires an architect. The | | | | make sure that everything is done properly and |
| architect must do their job right in order for the | | | | with the right materials. If something goes wrong |
| final product to come out exactly as the buyer | | | | during construction, he will have to be there to |
| wants it too. If it does not, then the architect | | | | ascertain that it is fixed and done correctly the |
| loses credibility and eventually buyers and even | | | | second time through. If it is not, the architect |
| their job. | | | | should consider hiring a new construction company |
| Any architect knows the importance of getting | | | | or crew of workers. |
| the blueprints just right before they commence | | | | Once the house is erect and the construction is |
| building. They will sit down and draft preliminary | | | | complete, the architect and the family together |
| drawings and sketches based on what the | | | | will have to decide upon whether or not they |
| customer desires. They will probably have the | | | | should hire an interior decorator. An interior |
| customer with them during this time, with them | | | | decorator, if hired, will help the family design and |
| as they make their very first sketches and | | | | decorate the inside of the house, matching up |
| renderings, at least so that they have the basic | | | | pattern and color and architecture to flow |
| ideas of what they want. | | | | seamlessly throughout the home. After, or |
| Their next step is to get a blueprint. If they are | | | | before, the interior is complete, a landscaper will |
| planning on building a house, they will have a | | | | want to be brought in to survey the land and put |
| different sheet for each room, staircase, floor, | | | | in the proper landscaping elements such as a |
| etc. This allows the family who is designing the | | | | patio, courtyard, a swimming pool, the right grass |
| house to have a detailed idea of what it is going | | | | and plants and also a few trees, making sure that |
| to look like when it is built. The architect will want | | | | the trees are not to close to the house so as to |
| to meet with the family and show them these | | | | make sure the branches will not fall on it during a |
| blueprints before he gets started. | | | | storm. |
| Once the plans are okay'ed by the family, the | | | | |