Reasonable people may disagree, but here are the common sequential steps in designing.
Design Process
- Funding
- Brainstorm with other funder/executors
- Talk to City Planner
- Rough sketch some ideas with executors/friends
- Talk to neighbors
- Integrated Design Process
- Interview architects (test them with some small space design questions: eg. What are a couple things that you would do to make a small space feel and act bigger? tall ceilings, join living/dining room, high windows, coupling functionality
- Find builders and subs (ideally, you want to have identified a builder, plumber, mechanical, electrical subcontractor)
- Architect draws up schematics for consideration
- Have meeting- talk through design goals
- Schematic refinement
- 3D model (use SketchUp)
- Develop drawings for City
- Permit process- In Portland, processing takes 10 days for new construction, then another 10 days for corrections
- Permits
