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how to plan a small house?

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1. You can either plan it from the inside out or the outside in. The first method, you figure out what you want for rooms, such as number of bedrooms, living room, dining room, one or two bathrooms. You then figure out what you want for size in each room, then draw a shell that will accommodate all of the rooms you want. For outside in, you draw the footprint of the house, then fill in the inside with the rooms you want, sizing them to fit the building. Hope this helps.
2. 1. Show your true colors. "Paint is the cheapest and most powerful thing you can do to put your personal stamp on a home," says Barbara Corcoran, a New York City Realtor and NBC's "Today" show real estate expert. "Paint your home the colors you enjoy living with, the colors you feel happiest within." 2. Ditch some stuff. "You probably have more stuff than you need. Get rid of some of it," says James Gauer, author of "The New American Dream: Living Well in Small Homes." 3. Start simple. Find the simplest remodeling solution within your home's existing footprint before considering expanding its size, says Marc Vassallo, co-author of "Not So Big Remodeling: Tailoring Your Home for the Way You Really Live." 4. Dine in a booth. "I've yet to see a small living/dining room where a free-floating dining table and chairs really works," says Gauer. "A dining banquette against the wall looks and feels luxurious and comfortable while taking up considerably less space." 5. Check out books. "Put a wall of books in any room and it's cozy and inviting," says Corcoran. 6. Consolidate doorways. "Attempt to locate all the doorways to the kitchen on one side of the room and eliminate any that are not absolutely necessary," Vassallo says. "This leaves the rest of the kitchen for continuous countertop and appliance arrangement while limiting the flow of foot traffic through the work area." 7. Plan your furniture first. "Never buy furniture without first laying out a furniture plan," says Gauer. "Chances are, that sofa you're eyeing is too big and will just make your living room feel crowded." 8. Let there be light. "The right lighting can make a heck of an improvement," says Corcoran. "Throw in task lighting to make tasks easier, mood light to make a room sexier. And don't forget dimmers! I can't imagine lighting without them." 9. Add a column. "Create a more open floor plan by removing a wall and replacing it with a new support beam and columns," says Vassallo. "Columns allow for differentiation of places with minimal view obstruction." 10. Dare to be modest. "Modesty requires us to arrange our homes first and foremost to suit the real needs of our private lives with no thought to public display, to eschew the showy and unnecessary and embrace the appropriate and suitable," says Gauer.
3. You should consider making an appointment with an architect since you cant by yourself do trail and error unless you have the talent or you are trained.It might turn out to be expensive to fix the errors back if you make any...Keep in mind Space management must be your aim if its a small house, also choice of colours play a very vital role in this regard,I would suggest you don't use dark colours as it might visually shorten the space and make it look stuffy.
4. I would start by looking at existing floor plans that are in the range of square footage you want. (You can buy books with floorplans at your local bookstore or online. As you review the plans you can decide what you like and don't like, and start to devise your own floor plan from what you have seen.