Photo - resize to proper home demensions

[reeljustice]

I am using Home Designer Suite 6.0.

I imported a photo of my floorplan into HD Suite. I more or less drew the exterior and interior walls. I performed a "reverse plan" and I deleted the photo image.

I need to resize everything from the tracing because the demensions are related to the imported photo, not to the actual demensions. Can anyone tell me how to do this?

I will also need to "expand" the original house demensions to increase the floorplan space. In other words, the rooms are too small in the original floorplan. I want to increase the size of the rooms proportionally. Can someone tell me how to do that as well?

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Joel

[Allen42ACJ]

I would print out the plan to look at and start over making the outside the size you want.
Then add the interior walls.
If you had a picture of a plan you didn't want to change the layout very much.the picture can be resized before tracing over it..
Your's sounds more complicated than that,,

[Allen42ACJ]

I read it that he wants to make it bigger than original..
The picture could be resized over scale,but room might not be right.Closets to big..
Like that job you had making the house smaller..
I think it would be easier to redesign it..
Maybe a good place for the space planner..
Draw the outside and then place the room boxes..

Main thing is to know how big you want or can have the outside of the house.

[Allen42ACJ]

Think it helps if you know what rooms are OK to reduce..
"I like this design just the way it is.""but we need to make it smaller without losing any thing"..
Is that how it went?

[reeljustice]

Thanks.

I just looked at myimported photo to see if I could resize the photo to proper scale. I didn't see in the index or the menu where I could do that.

I have attached the floorplan hereto.

The overall outside demensions are currently 84'W x 64'L My Wife's Choice from hundreds of plans. I really like the house as well and my wife is very insistent that we maintain this plan but with the reversal and the increase in room size.

We want to reverse the plan completely and we want to increase the size of the rooms, particularly the BRs.

[Allen42ACJ]

Got a name?
It is not really 84 x 64..Though you were doing a Ware house at first.
You have to figure out for structural and how it will be built.If you start having 35' wide areas that will make it very expensive to build..
Do you have a lot already? What will fit there..
If you import the picture and then click on it you will get a picture resize tool..Look under help for how to use it..

[reeljustice]

I do already have the land. I have attempted to post the online photo album for the land twice, without success http://picasaweb.google.com/JoelJWLO

I tried the regular hyperlink in the response area here but couldn't get it to work for some reason.

In any event, the homesite has been cleared on the hill and the pond construction in front of the homesite is nearly complete.

[Allen42ACJ]

Joel
Think there some thing wrong with your turkeys,they don't look to well.
Do you have a lot plan that shows where the house is going and how big it can be?
Are you going to buy that plan,get someone to draw it?
You really need to start with the outside shell size..
What is that that the deer are hanging around?
I just saw one in my back yard..

[reeljustice]

I am attaching a jpg image saved from Google Earth. If you have GE I can email you the GE file for more accurate demensions.

Basically, the cleared homesite sits on top of a hill with the cleared area being approximately 2 acres -- the aerial doesn't show it but within the red lines is what we cleared this summer, leaving a few of the oak trees. The homesite is a little over 1,000 feet off the dirt road. The long white lines are orientation lines. I still haven't decided on the exact orientation, will wait for the pond to fill with water before making that decision. The light blue is the driveway to the homesite, crossing the pond dam. We hope to light the driveway at some point in the future.

I come from a construction background but am not an architect or builder. I doubt I will buy the plan because I can pay someone to draw it for what eplans would charge to customize it. I have a nephew who recently graduated Georgia Tech as well as a building supplier who has a pretty good draftsman and a fella in the little town who is an artist and graduated from some place many years ago with an architectural degree of some sort. Unfortunately, I'm not very good at the drawing stuff myself. Both my brother and a first cousin are contractors and a good friend is a framing contractor.

Unfortunately, I had an outbreak of lead poisoning down in SE Georgia, near Vidalia, which did in some of the turkeys. Funny thing is, that same outbreak followed me to KY and to KS. I'm beginning to think there might be something wrong with me.

The deer were around a feeder I had set up on some land near the Oconee River in SE GA. For the most part, I just like to watch the game. You can see from the attached picture that the lime green areas there will be wildlife food plots.

[Allen42ACJ]

Looks like you can go as big as the budget will allow.
Still,figure the outside of the house first and if it will be a foundation or slab construction.And if your going with trusses or cut rafters..

Designs can get out of hand if you don't get that first..
Will be watching..

[reeljustice]

Thanks Allen. I appreciate your help.

So, I guess I just need to draw in HD from scratch, eh?

[Allen42ACJ]

Joel
I just did the trace over quick and rounded the numbers..
The 32' wide spot could be a problem building depending how you are doing it..
And will drive the price of lumber up..
That is what I am trying to explain.
If money is no concern,don't worry about it..

[reeljustice]

Allen, thanks very much.

On the 32 foot area, according to the roof structure from the online view, the span will cross the 22' area -- still, a pretty wide span. I think my framing friend is using (I forget the name of the "beam" now -- but, I think it is the one using OSB formed similar to a header) and using bracing from either the rafters or trusses. Honestly, I don't recall specifically how they are handling those spans now.

[reeljustice]

Email with cell number and sample drawn plan (with HD) sent.

I am attaching what I have drawn so far hereto.

For anyone interested, here are some of the things my addled mind is thinking late tonight.

" I have worked tonight to get the rough dimensions in HD. I placed appliances and such to help me with the dimensions. I’m pretty burned out on it right this moment, but, a fair start. It is clear to me, after placing some furniture and appliances I have a long way to go before reaching anything remotely similar to final dimensions, but, like I said, a start.

I don’t know if you can see HD files, but, on the chance you can, I’m sending one of my renditions.

Debbie and I both like lots of room and an open design. As you can see, the outdoors is the major attraction of the area, but, the home should in some way measure up to the environment. I suspect I will pass from this world before my wife and she may wish to sell and move into town. She is a “city” girl at heart. Even if she decides she likes the country living, I doubt our children (currently 22 year old son and 21 year old daughter) will ever move out there, so, there needs to be a home suitable for selling on the 70 acre farm with 1.6 acre pond in front of it.

I figure square footage (heated) between 2,500 and 3,250. Of course, we can and probably will add some of that square footage with an upstairs as it generally is cheaper to build out BUT with the cathedral ceilings in the master bedroom and great room, the design doesn’t really make bonus rooms upstairs seem so easy.

The cathedral ceilings in the BR and Great room are important to us so we want to keep those. I realize that design is a give and take and that money matters a lot. My father (deceased), my brother and cousin most often lose money when they tried to satisfy new owners with change orders who really didn’t want to pay for the changes in the end. I also believe with the expansion of the square footage, I want to keep in mind standard lumber lengths so as to minimize waste. In the simplest of explanations, if you look at a 4’ x 8’ sheet of plywood and my design calls for using only 6’ of the length, I am throwing away 8 square feet for each sheet of plywood not to mention the labor involved in the special cut and the cost of landfill space.

Quite frankly, all that boggles my mind."

[Allen42ACJ]

Joel
Your welcome
I just want you to keep that in mind.I have seen lots of dream home plans that never get built because they cost to much to build..
I don't want to be that kind of Drafter.Would rather see them built...