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real estate is not for everyone once retirement
arrives. Sometimes it is better to lease a
home instead of carrying a mortgage. The
Marque at Heritage Hunt is an upscale apartment
complex outside of Washington, D.C. and offers many
of the amenities of a luxury hotel, all for one
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Home Design
Preferences Of Women
Home designers are catering to women's interests and
accommodating their opinions in home designs. This comes as no
surprise given that women are the major decision makers in home
purchases accounting to 83 % of consumer spending decisions in the
U.S. Also the percentage of women home buyers is 22% and increasing
each year and home designers and builders are increasingly trying to
cash in on women's influence in the home buying process.
One of the main focuses of the recently held International Builder's
Show in Orlando was on the need to build homes with designs that
please women homebuyers. Recognizing the influence women have
in the home buying process at a seminar on 'building homes for
women', Architect Ann Olson and Paul Foresman, manager of
Omaha-based Design Basics, offered what they called as the "ten
commandments of women-centric home design".
The following are the ten focus areas for home builders and
designers based on what women want in home design:
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1. Women want options in the master baths although they
seem to be unable to decide on wanting a tub in the bath.
Builders and designers need to pay extra attention to the
design of de-stressing areas such as baths.
2. Women need a lot of storage space in the rear foyer in
order to store stuff. They want more closet storage space
and a separate laundry room. Builders would do well to give
the rear foyer entry more thought than to treat it as a mud
room.
3. A kitchen is an important place for women and also serves
as the chief entertainment zone. Given a choice between a
bigger kitchen and a bigger master bath, women prefer the
former. Hence builders need to design bigger kitchens.
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4. Women who have blended families (or
lots of visiting grandkids) need their homes to have separate
bathrooms instead of shared ones.
5. Women want their homes to be easy to organize. They prefer closet
organization systems that have double storage capacity to ordinary
ones.
6. Women want larger storage space in their homes especially in the
kitchen. They require bigger kitchen pantries to store prepared
foods.
7. Women prefer home designs that let in natural light in their home
such as a window over the bath tub, in the shower etc.
8. Women prefer home exteriors that need little or no maintenance
such as maintenance-free decking.
9. Women like change so homes need to be designed with flexible
features.
10. Women who run home-based businesses or work from home prefer
homes with office space.
Article courtesy of ArticlesBase.
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