Home Plans And Home Designs - log home plans VS. conventional
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johsal
09-17-05, 12:13 PM
Can you convert log home blueprints into conventional home blueprints? My wife and I have been looking at home plans for months and allways come back to log home plans we like but dont want logs. :wall: and if you can who and how much? thank you.
Brian Garrison
09-17-05, 08:07 PM
johsal,
any floor plan can be built in any construction method. It would be slightly harder to go the other way from standard construction to log or timber framing. It depends on where you are going to build (what state and city) that will determine what you would expect to pay for plans. I personally draw custom homes for between $2.50 - $3.50 per foot (I am in Calif.). Others charge by the job. It is best for you to contact some local designers and or architects to get pricing for your area. Architects are fee based, based on the cost of the construction project.
I hope this answers some of your questions.
Brian Garrison
General Contractor/Professional Building Designer
any floor plan can be built in any construction method. It would be slightly harder to go the other way from standard construction to log or timber framing. It depends on where you are going to build (what state and city) that will determine what you would expect to pay for plans. I personally draw custom homes for between $2.50 - $3.50 per foot (I am in Calif.). Others charge by the job. It is best for you to contact some local designers and or architects to get pricing for your area. Architects are fee based, based on the cost of the construction project.
I hope this answers some of your questions.
Brian Garrison
General Contractor/Professional Building Designer
johsal
09-18-05, 08:36 AM
We have floor plans book from Jim Barna If we take the house plan to architect to convert to conventional instead of log do we need permission from Jim Barna to do this? I have been reading other posts that makes me wonder? Thanks agian for your insight.
Brian Garrison
09-18-05, 04:42 PM
johsal,
if you do not use Jim Barna's plans and try to pass as your own. If you use the floorplan(s) and elevations as a guide. If the work is in your "own hand". The answer is no copyright infringement. If you instead cutoff his borders, put your own on and print them it would be copyright infringement. If you whiteout the origiinal clients name and address and put it your own it is infringement. I have had hundreds of clients who have found their home in a plan magazine or on someone eleses website. By the time you personalize the plan it will be nothing like what you started with normally.
Good lUck
Brian Garrison
if you do not use Jim Barna's plans and try to pass as your own. If you use the floorplan(s) and elevations as a guide. If the work is in your "own hand". The answer is no copyright infringement. If you instead cutoff his borders, put your own on and print them it would be copyright infringement. If you whiteout the origiinal clients name and address and put it your own it is infringement. I have had hundreds of clients who have found their home in a plan magazine or on someone eleses website. By the time you personalize the plan it will be nothing like what you started with normally.
Good lUck
Brian Garrison