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New Build Design Hacks for Efficiency and Affordability
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- Affordable homes are hard to come by and Keith is building one for his client. Check out all the tips and tricks to make this home affordable.
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I absolutely love the content that Keith puts out. I love his concept of building in stages, and cash flowing as it comes. Our generation needs more of this advice if we ever want to own a home.
Thank you so much for this, comments like this make my day!
Keith I live in Texas. How can I get a copy of the floorplan for this house?
Liked your comment about building in stages as your cash comes in. My parents built the home I grew up in over 3 years. Bought some materials with each paycheck they earned. Took a while but no mortgage.
It’s funny that we consider a house that is 1500-1600sqft as a small or tiny house. Most people never use all the space in larger homes. It’s waste of money for building cost and for energy cost to heat and cool unused space. 1500-1600 is plenty of space for a family of 4.
Currently I live in a 250sqft camper with a wife and a toddler, and before this we lived in a 650sqft apartment so anything bigger than 650 would be spacious to us! 😂
Plenty of space, definitely, if people don’t collect too much junk!
No kidding. Our grandparents raised half a dozen kids in a 950 sq ft home.
Most homes are built big , fast, and look like all the rest. Nice to see these architectural details and customization go into a small home. Great work!
We agree! We are getting ready to sell some of these plans online at howtobuildyourownhome.com.
As a HVAC technician and appliance mechanic. I love you. That mechanical room will make everything so much easier for installing and servicing equipment along with the rest of the home it impacts.
Thanks for the comment. I appreciate the love.
I love this video. I am just not a fan of the electrical box on an exterior wall ... I would much prefer the electrical box on an interior wall and not compromise my insulation
The only caveat about having the mechanicals in between the two upstairs bedrooms is the noise of the heating/cooling system turning on and off while people are trying to sleep. It may seem like a small thing but can be very annoying. Make sure you plan to put in noise cancellation framing/insulation in that room.
Unless it's the kids rooms right? HAHA yes very good suggestion, thanks for the comment.
That's one of the cleanest build sites I've seen.
Keith's son Kyler responding here. My dad puts signs up on all of his job sites to tell people to clean up after themselves. It takes a lot of pride in making sure the job site is clean for his clients. He also has some employees that maintain the cleanliness of the job site if he's not doing it himself.It's also safer for the owners if they want to go visit the job site. Thanks for the comment.
@@HowToBuildYourOwnHomeI respect that. I see WAY too many build sites that are absolute disasters. I try to always keep my stuff organized and tidy.
This is going to be a gorgeous home Keith. You and your team really put a ton of thought and heart into these details to prioritize function and how people will actually inhabit the home. Please do a video once you have insulation in and talk about air sealing and ventilation strategy for this build.
Thank you so much, yeah we will see if we can schedule a video for the insulation. Thanks for the comment!
A full covered porch on the front would make it farmhouse style. Nice use of space in the design any raised ceiling does add a spacious feel.
For an American home, this is pretty solid. I like your thoughtfulness about making best use of space for storage and utility purposes. Good consideration for aesthetics too. Keep it up.
Glad you like it! That was kind of you.
Great vid. lots of good idears here... Nice design, tight.
Love the creative use of "leftover spaces", so often overlooked in tract developments.
Thanks for the comment! Yeah how many times do you see a house and wonder why they didn't use the space. Even if it's small space.
love the various seating benches with informal opportunities to dwell. Thanks, Keith. Great ideas!
The title is money saving hacks. Adding bench seating for a window increases the cost of exterior trim work, cost of tempered glass. Framers will charge more money for creating that window opening even if it does not increase sq footage.
Depends on where you're located, but yes it can cost more in certain regions.
Glad you like them! Thanks for the comment!
@@HowToBuildYourOwnHome how does adding tempered glass and additional trim work to the exterior not create additional cost? In 100% of design cases it will add cost not save money as the title of this video suggests.
He keeps insisting it's a tiny little place. This house is bigger than any average house in France. We have around 1200sf and ours is considered big and people keep commenting how big it is 😂
The average home size in my area is north of 2,500 sq ft, with many well over 5,000.
in addition to the added height boxed in around the attic access to keep cellulose from falling, i like to sandwich a few layers of EPS between drywall (lower) and sheathing (upper). a nice dense foam/rubber gasket around the edge helps finish off the energy improvements. a pair of large drawer handles on the underside gives you better control too.
This is an excellent comment it keeps blow in insulation from settling.Going from loose to ridged is a great way to keep the insulation in. Thanks for the comment!
SPpent the last 2 years DIY building my own home and now debt free as a result.
Congratualtions!
I spent about 10 years building homes as a subcontractor, got into Real Estate and been doing that for about four years. I’ve been aching to get back to building houses, but I’d like to do it as the contractor, like what you’re describing. It’s been difficult to get my food in the door.
My 2 cents as a builder.
Use a kerdi in the showers and foam blocks for the stool in the shower corner.
Get some blocking in those bathroom walls for handholds.
I like Kerri, just have a lot of old school tile setters I deal with.
Great overview, really helpful to have you explain your reasoning from a framing perspective and how that translates to the finished benefits.
Glad it was helpful!
Very helpful Thank you for sharing
Of course! Thanks for the comment!
Smart ideas and very well explained! Well done sir!
Glad you liked it! Thanks for the comment
I like that explanation of getting every sf on that upstairs bump out.
Then you walk into the bedroom with a loss of 30-40 sf from thos rafters at the wall. A 5/12 would look horrible but a sloped or flat roof would cost less and get you 20-40k in value back in those bedrooms.
Using my market $300sf pricing.
Interesting. I just don’t like flat roofs, they don’t work well with high snow load, which is an issue for this home.
Keith!
Do you sell those saddle supports for the timber posts? I’m a GC up in Northern Utah and we just changed over to timber posts on our builds. I tried to find the post you mentioned from a year back but couldn’t find anything. I would love to see some details on how you’re anchoring those timber posts to the porch in a video or talk to you about it.
I love your channel. Just found it this morning and I’m watching everything. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I wish I would’ve been able to work for someone like you when I first started out in the industry. Would’ve saved me a lot of headaches and sleepless nights but you live and you learn I guess haha.
Thank you for the kind words. Those saddle supports are held down by four jbolts inside, installed at pour. My son in-law manufactures them at Theabold construction. They are not signed off by an engineer but they are way overkill. I am having him make some different ones for another job, less than half the price of Simpson rip off saddles.
@@HowToBuildYourOwnHomeHaha! Yeah Simpson is a ripoff!
I’ll see if I can reach someone over there at Theabold Construction. Those saddles look great on the front porch.
Are those just Douglas fir posts? I’m guessing you’re staining them for the finish?
Looks nice - I wanna live here!
You should!
Your electrical boxes need to be bumped out when installed next to door frames. The door trim will interfere with the finished plate eveytime. Also, the raised attic access makes it harder to get in and out of the attic.
Who else wish for this man to build their home? Family of six here, we would love to build a small but sufficient home just like this!
I could tell this plan was great even from your mechanical room video on it. It is really cool. One thing about not using the trusses is that it probably allowed you to have a bigger upstairs? Could you have still got 16 ft wide upstairs with them? I love all the design additions you made.
Yeah the vaulted ceiling makes it feel bigger for sure also. No we tried. Thanks or the comment.
A small footprint, while maximizing interior space. Good job with taking advantage of all the dead spaces people don't normally think about. I'd be interested in this house plan if you have a garage option designed.
Thanks for the comment. Yeah go ahead and contact us if you're interested in the plans.
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Wow. Great explanation!👍
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for the comment!
I love the details!
All in the small things
That is a nice design. A cozy and efficient use of space. What kind of rough in material cost are you talking about?
So- the mechanical room will essentially be a walled/doored off space that is temperature controlled. Got me thinking. So- all our junction boxes for wifi connectivity could also be moved to this room.
Nice video, thank you.
Thank you too! Appreciate the comment!
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Comment of the year right here.
Is the walk thru available yet? First I've I've seen of your videos.
I like the use of space especially in a time with high $/ft2. Unfortunately smaller homes are higher dollar per square foot on what is essentially a custom home. I think contractors will charge more on smaller homes due to fewer days on site. Any time there is increased complexity above standard building practice the price will increase. Will be hard to compete with large developers with a handful of home designs that their contractors can knock out in a production manner leading to lower costs to produce. You may end up with a home thats hard to sell due to the price per square foot. Of course thats market and site specific.
Great comment. The home is a basic rectangle, common footprint and easy to layout. I will do a final video on this home next week and reveal a few costs.
Excellent video!!
Thank you for the comment!
First time viewer, nice thoughtful nooks and window seating areas and other details and explanations. You mention small house under 1,500 sq. ft., and its probably in another video - what is the size of this house?
Thanks for the comment! Yeah the size of this house was 1,683 square ft. 3 Bedroom 2 1/2 bath. If you're interested in plans you can purchase them.
Where are the plans available? I want to understand how those bump out windows are framed while maintaining necessary structural support. Thanks!
Nice!
Thanks
Great video
Thanks!
2 mistakes right off the rip are slab on grade and your electrical panel on the outside.
How can i get a copy of the floorplan or purchase the plan from you?
Yeah you can reach us at
www.howtobuildyourownhome.com/contact
and we can get you a price on these floor plans
Love Keith❤
Thanks for the love! Right back at ya!
This was an interesting video, and I loved all of the little built-in spaces for storage, but I was a bit confused during the part where you were talking about the electrical panel. At least where I live in Michigan, if that was the box the meter was attached to with the service disconnect, it would be surface mounted on the exterior outside of the building envelope so that the only penetration through the wrb would be a hole just big enough for the cable to the breaker box to pass through. If that was the breaker box, it would be mounted flush with the interior wall surface so that breakers could be accessed from the inside, with insulation behind it and the only wall penetration again being for the cable that goes to the meter and service disconnect. It makes no sense to me to have that large of a whole punched through the exterior envelope when that box could've been surface mounted.
Also, I think your perspective on house size is rather skewed. You refered to a house under 1500 sq ft as nearly a tiny house, when in reality a tiny house is around 400 sq ft and anything over 600 sq ft can no longer be considered as a tiny house by most definitions. Also, a typical 2 or 3 bedroom house is in the 800 sq ft to 1200 sq ft range, with 1500 sq ft being a large 3 bedroom or a small 4 bedroom home. A typical bedroom is only about 10x10 ft, so if it's a 3 bedroom home that's 300 sq ft. Even if you make the bedrooms 10x12 ft for 360 sq ft and call it 400 sq ft to account for closet space, that still leaves around 1100 sq ft in a 1500 sq ft house for the kitchen, living room, dining room, laundry, and 1 or 2 bathrooms. That is not a small or tiny house for most people, and is plenty for a family of four and overkill for just a single person or couple (if they aren't planning on kids in the near future).
Thanks for the comment. The electrical meter panel is separate from the sup-panel. Many builders just run everything to a meter panel to the outside and then when trouble comes, the owner needs to go outside to shut off circuits. I do not like that. I have all circuits inside in a sub-panel with the main shut off outside in the meter panel. Breakers do not rust or get exposed to the elements and I like that.
As for small homes, I live in a state with large families. A tiny home is not the same as a small home. Tiny homes are often not on a foundation and do not maintain equity value over time. I stress small but on a permanent concrete foundation to preserve the value and equity of the home. Plus, the tiny home fad is now realized as not rational. They are terribly inefficient with no room to grow or have a family. I like a small tiny start to something that can grow into more value and more space down the road. My family took an old pioneer home with barely 700 sq ft of living space. We remodeled that, then later added 700 more sq ft without changing the footprint. We then added a large addition with another 1700 sq ft, a completely separate unit with its own kitchen etc. We rented the front out while we moved to the back. My mom now lives up front. This kind of staged development is what families will need, especially families with aging boomer parents.
About the attic access, how does more height help with insulation not falling on you. I would imagine seismic effect over time will shake up some insulation but I don’t see how that height will prevent it?
Not if it's packed really well. It won't settle. Thanks for the comment.
Love your way of utilizing space. What I do not like about modern builds are the lack of tubs... Walk in showers without a seat are trends... Old people need a seat... To bath your kids you need a tub and spray hose NOT a fancy shower head like rain falling. Plus new builds leave out medicine cabinets and storage in the bathrooms. Personally I HATE CLOSETS off of the bathroom 🤮 yucky. I have to grab achange of clothes while hubby is doing business 😅😂 ick! 😁😉
The cost is minimal compared to the added value and attraction given to what is typically a boring design.
Yup 1000% agree
Why did you put OSB in the inside walls? Does it make the room sound proof, just wondering.
Great question, no it's a an engineering requirement for strength. Thanks for the comment!
@@HowToBuildYourOwnHome enjoyed the video, you got a new subscriber❗️
What does something like this cost ?
A “tiny” house is under 500sq ft not 1500sq ft. No wonder housing is so unaffordable in the USA. This was literally the average size house in the 1960s.
Tiny is relative. For a family of seven, this is tiny.
How do we get the plan?
Message the instructor
www.howtobuildyourownhome.com/contact
how much was this build?
$475,000 including the land. The land was $75,000
In what market?
@@HowToBuildYourOwnHome$400k for less than 2k sq/ft?
Is that advance framing?
Hey great questions! No it's not. I don't suggest advanced framing. The house rattles when the doors open and shut. This house we built is 2x6 and advanced is 2 foot on center. It's a way to save on lumber, but doesn't improve on the quality of the home.
Everything makes sense except for moving air through the house. All the air movement should be controlled . I’m sure Many high efficiency homebuilders would degree.
Thanks for the comment. Return air is upstairs and redirected through the supply. Small homes like this have a faster air exchange and this improves comfort and efficiency.
Do you offer architectural drawings?
We will have them for sale soon
How much per square ft?
$257 with land.
well your pretty good ole son.
Thank you brother!
Dude wants a thicker wood post, go figure 🤔
Everything a single person needs in a home can easily fit in 500 square feet.
1500 square feet is enough for a small family.
A family with a child in a wheelchair cannot fit in 500 sq, hallways need to be 4' wide, showers need to be bigger, doors etc. Such was the case with this home.
3:32 you have to say primary, Master is no more 😮
Those bump out/bay windows probably add $8k to 12,000. Tempered glass, framing, insulation, siding, trim, roof cost, etc..
There is so much wasted space here it is remarkable. A hallway, the biggest example of wasted space there is. Efficiency of design solves most of these.
His much lauded staircase is not only added cost- but imagine moving furniture or beds up that “added feature”.
I’m sorry, but this house is neither well designed, economical, nor needed.
Pay for those bump out windows for 30 years… with interest.
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Thanks for the comments. The bump outs are places for their five kids to find a quiet place in a cold winter. They did not cost anything more in labor as my framer bid a fixed sq ft cost. Lumber was not more than a few hundred and roof was even less. Windows were already planned in those areas. As for wide hallway, it was needed for their child in a wheelchair. The house is actually well designed, otherwise dozens of subscribers would not want to purchase the plans. It fits in a tight place and can scale with garage/loft first or house first.
It feels like this gentleman has little clue on how a house is used. His suggestion for “book storage” and “laundry baskets” are completely not fathomable.
Keith's son Kyler responding here. Thanks for the comment, if you were to visit my dad's house you'd know there are books all over the house. :) the laundry basket is valid though. HAHAHA
@@HowToBuildYourOwnHome understandable.. I’m all for some random storage.. but to call out every random nook and cranny as a potential for storage is a little crazy.. 🤪 he’s got my vote though!!! SUBSCRIBED!