How can I design a 3,000 square foot house?

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How can I design a 3,000 square foot house?

'Six Thinking Hats' can help you to look at problems from different perspectives, but one at a time, to avoid confusion from too many angles crowding your thinking.

Yellow Hat

The Yellow Hat will help you to think positively. While you are 'wearing' this hat be optimistic, notice the benefits and the value in them.

Is it wheelchair accessible?

How does the house benefit people with diverse needs?

Will the house have high ceilings? How can you give your client the most for the money?

Green Hat

The Green Hat represents creativity. Develop creative solutions to any problem with this hat. This unconstrained mindset allows you to freely test out a variety of useful creativity tools, due to its low level of criticism.

Will the house have 1 floor, 2 floors or more? Will it have a basement?

How big will the bedrooms be? What different configurations can you use in your house to get a house of 3,000 square feet?

Will the house have an open floor plan or rooms?

Blue Hat

The Blue Hat thinking represents process control. When having trouble because ideas are needed, the Green Hat may come in handy since it is the one used for creativity. In case of emergencies and dealing with them, the Black Hat is required.

What are your client's must haves?

What is the goal of the project?

Black Hat

Using the Black Hat you consider the negative outcomes. Find what would not work and why. This way you highlight the weak points in a plan. Black Hat will help you to identify the flaws and risks before you embark on a course of action.

How can you include most of the features of the house to satisfy your client?

How can you get all the essentials of a house with the lowest cost?

Red Hat

Using the Red Hat, you will use your intuition and emotions. Also, you will consider how others might look at the problem emotionally. Try to understand the responses of people who do not fully know your reasoning.

I want my client to feel luxurious!

Happy, sophisticated, excited, luxurious, practical, etc.

What feeling do you want your client to evoke when they entire your house?

White Hat

Using the white thinking hat, you center your attention around the available data. Take the information that you have, analyze it, and see what you can learn from it. Become aware of your weak points and start working on improving your knowledge.

Your house must have a kitchen, dining room and living room.

Your house must have at least two bathrooms.

Your house must have at least bedrooms.