| Your
house
may look expensive, but the reality is that it could only have
costed about Rs.275 per square foot area.
Truth is that some crore rupee homes could look inexpensive and
boring.
Appearance,
like energy efficiency, is more a product of design
than of cost. You can take the same materials and arrange them
poorly or arrange them well. This is where art comes into
architecture. It does not take much artistic skill to
design a good-looking house; it just takes time.
The first
house plans you draw could be pretty funky, but after some time,
they would start looking pretty good. You may
not have much artistic skill to begin with, but if you picked
up a pencil and sketched your cat or dog for quite some
time, then you would probably get pretty good
at that too.
Develop
a sense of architecture by just doing it, and you will
become much faster at it. Most importantly, however, the investment
of time allows you to meditate on your plans,
so you could eliminate extra work and materials
and save many Thousands of Rupees.
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