Design Tips

Building a new home is one of the greatest adventures that any family can embark upon. If you've already selected a high-quality, affordable stock house plan from a reputable house plan broker website, you're already well on your way.

Over the last few years, the concept of Universal House Design has become quite popular, and is basically, a design trend focused on accommodating special needs of aging and/or physically challenged occupants.

Typically, universal design house plans offer wide hallways and easy access to bedrooms and bathrooms and is becoming more and more important, driven by demographic trends.

Applying the basics of universal home design provides a set of design layout tactics to provide a home that is suitable for every member of a family who will be living there; from a toddler who will be crawling around, to an elderly member of a family who may be unsure in their footing.

Planning ahead is the key to a successful new home construction, and there is a wealth of information online on the topic of universal design for new house plans that take people through each of the different, typical lifestages.

When the average person builds a home, they generally do so taking a fairly long-term view. Most people these days buy their first home in their late twenties to early thirties, usually when they decide that the time has come to start a family. If all things fall into place according to life's plan, this could be their family home for twenty-five to thirty years or more. Some people even live in the same family home all their married lives. Apart from the sentimental aspects, the practical aspects of the home's design can play a vital role.

As such, it is increasingly important for potential new home builders to take advantage of the vast material of Universal Design resources available online, when shopping for your new house plan.

Best wishes in the building of your new home!

Jill Phillips is a home design enthusiast and operates one of the leading stock houseplans websites on the Internet located at Home Design Central.com. On the site, you can quickly search through thousands of unique house plans from the nation's leading building designers and architects.

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I am sure that you know just how great a Kanji tattoo design can look on somebody. You have most likely figured out the size and overall picture of how you would like your choice, too. With that said, you still need to be able to find the quality artwork online that it takes for one to come out perfect. Many people are never able to find the good stuff, so here is how to do it, as well as why you need to avoid generic designs.

You never want to settle for generic artwork, especially when it comes to something as great as a Kanji tattoo design. There are do many wonderful things you can do with this style, so settling on some generic, cookie-cutter piece should not be done by anyone. That seems like common sense, right? Well, there are so many people how rush into their decision and wend up getting some random thing inked on their body. Needless to say, quite a few of these folks end up regretting their decision to get it inked.

There is one more thing about generic artwork that you need to know about when looking on the web for your Kanji tattoo design. It has to do with the fact that search engines as not your best friend when it comes to locating the quality artwork that is necessary for your tattoos to come out their best. Sure, search engines are perfect for finding just about anything on the web in the blink of an eye. This is not the case when it comes to actually locating the quality artwork out there. Notice that I used the word "quality". That's because search engines don't bring you to many websites that have it, especially for something as specific as a Kanji tattoo design.

Almost every site that you find through Google or Yahoo tends to be some sort of cookie-cutter place that is loaded with generic artwork. Most of the art at these websites are over seven years old. Also, just about every piece of art you see there is already plastered on hundreds and hundreds of other websites. Millions of people have seen any given Kanji tattoo design they might have. Do you know what that means? It means that there is a very good chance that a hundred or so people have already picked that exact one and had it inked somewhere on their body. I don't think that is a Kanji tattoo design you want on you.

To find a quality Kanji tattoo design that hasn't been seen by the whole world, you will need to use a different searching method....

This searching method is none other than an internet forum. It might not sound like very much, but it will surely make all the difference in the world when it comes to the type of Kanji tattoo design you are able to find. You will spend less time looking through countless generic designs and more time finding the hidden websites that have so much of the quality art that you have been missing out on. The places you find through posts and links in forums tend to be the websites that will have an original Kanji tattoo design that is one central location and not plastered all over the place. As a bonus, most of what you find through forums is real artwork that was drawn by real artists. This means that the designs you pick will look just as good inked on your skin as it looked on paper or your computer screen. Those cookie-cutter websites have mostly generic designs that weren't even drawn to be made into real tattoos in the first place. Using forums to locate any Kanji tattoo design you want is a can't miss opportunity.

Which ever Kanji tattoo design you end up choosing on the web, just make sure that you are 100% happy with it before you go to get it inked.

Want to know where to find the largest, most original websites find the perfect Kanji Tattoo Design? Keep reading...

Adam Woodham is the author of this article and runs the blog Tattoo Art Design, which features the 3 top websites, with the absolute largest selection of artwork, including tons of Kanji tattoo design artwork. Finding the perfect tattoo has never been easier.

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