Many new homes, built with drawings purchased from plan books or websites, often look like they were haphazardly air dropped on their site. The owners can be saddled with windows that catch hot summer sun, overly prominent garage doors, and never-used front doors.

A well designed home sits comfortably on its site.  Its layout responds to its specific situation, making the most of the positives, and reducing the negatives.  The relationship to the street, the slope of the land, the solar orientation, and the available views should all help shape the external and internal layout of the house.