Just as your body depends upon your brain and its miles of connected nerves
for smooth operation, your home's smooth operation depends upon a properly
designed HMS. And just as your brain and all those nerves were not an
afterthought designed and installed after the skin was on, neither should
your home's HMS. Although not necessary, the ideal time to begin the design
process for your HMS is when your architect begins designing your home.
Decisions made about the architectural and mechanical features of your home
can then be coordinated with decisions made about your HMS. This prevents
the need to compromise on your HMS features because the home's design is too
set to accomodate them.
The design process for your Home Management System is, in fact, similar to the
design process you'll encounter with your architect. Your architect
will probably first meet with you to discuss your expectations for
your new home. You'll probably talk broadly about the many different
features you would like in your new home, and your architect will provide
some initial direction and feedback as to what is and is not possible.
Also during this initial meeting, you'll both be deciding if there is a
the level of rapport necessary to ensure a successful project.
The initial discussion lays the foundation for the design of your new
home. As your home design progresses, there may be times when the
architect contacts you to resolve design issues that were not apparent
at first and to finalize all the details. Through this design process
you and your architect refine your expectations into your dream home.
This is a design process — you are creating something no one else has.
The important thing to remember is even though yours is a home less ordinary,
and unique from all others, neither you nor your architect started from
scratch. You had ideas about what you wanted in a home; your architect had
the skill and experience to mold those ideas into your home.
Designing and building your Home Management System follows the same
path as your home design. First, we meet with you to discuss your
expectations of an HMS. Unless you lived in a home with an HMS before,
most of the initial discussion will be to help you understand the
potential of your HMS. You'll have the opportunity to judge our
expertise and skill in molding your expectations into an HMS beyond
those expectations, and as the project moves forward, you'll provide
valuable input as needed. Fortunately, your HMS design requires far fewer
decisions than your home design.
If you want to know more about our Home Management System design methods,
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