Kit Homes and Difficult Building Sites
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\\nShow Notes:
\\nUnique and difficult building sites and how to design a Kit Home for these beautiful areas. Taking advantage of great views, sun and how Landmark helps you make it happen!
\\nTranscript:
\\nInterviewer: Hello, folks! Thanks for joining us for Episode 40 of the Panelized Prefab Kit Home Building Show. With me in his usual spot is the President and Founder of Landmark Home and Land Company, a company which has been helping people build their new homes where they want exactly as they want across the nation and worldwide since 1993, Steve Tuma. Steve, how are you today?
\\nSteve Tuma: I\\u2019m doing great. Another good day as they all are and it was a busy day working on some really, really interesting projects, different types of building sites, different building department concerns, different customer design concern so it has been really cool day.
\\nInterviewer: Whenever we start the show, Steve always is very enthusiastic. And you always start with it has been good day. Not, hopefully it\\u2019s a good day. We should get t-shirts made, \\u201cLandmark, it\\u2019s a good day to build.\\u201d
\\nSteve Tuma: Yes, something like that.
\\nInterviewer: That would be great.
\\nSteve Tuma: Well, it\\u2019s kind of interesting because we are not doing this because it\\u2019s a job. We are doing it because we like it.
\\nInterviewer: Right.
\\nSteve Tuma: We have been doing it since 1993. We started the company. And it\\u2019s kind of fun so you would jump out of bed every day and say, \\u201cLet\\u2019s go build a house.\\u201d
\\nInterviewer: Oh, that\\u2019s nice. That\\u2019s a nice way to put it. Cool!
\\nSteve Tuma: What other people are doing on TV shows, we get to do every day.
\\nInterviewer: I want to talk today about building sites, specifically unique building sites. And I want to start with views because if you\\u2019re building a house let\\u2019s say on a big piece of land, having a great view is an amazing thing. But I think I\\u2019ve seen houses where you look at the front door, the front deck of the house and it\\u2019s looking the wrong way. And I always think the view is over there, why would you build that way? So, let\\u2019s talk about what you can do when you are building to take advantage of a great view?
\\nSteve Tuma: Well, it\\u2019s one of the interesting that you bring up because I\\u2019ve seen that myself where someone has got this great view and there\\u2019s like a mini window or something where there is facing and it\\u2019s kind of like strange. And sometimes that might have been some of those building the home for other reasons other than to live in it. So what we are able to do is work with people on the design. So a lot of people think, \\u201cHey, there\\u2019s a view. Let\\u2019s just put a big window there.\\u201d
\\nInterviewer: Right.
\\nSteve Tuma: Well, sometimes there\\u2019s a little bit more to that. There\\u2019s where is the window facing, how are you sitting on the land, the sitting it on the land and it\\u2019s not just the big window, it\\u2019s what\\u2019s around it. So if you have a big porch going across the front of your house and you have a big window, well, the upward view might be limited. So if you are looking at a tall mountain, there might be limitations there. So we might have to design a porch differently or the whole home if you are looking more across like a lake, that upward view may not be as important. So what we like to do is kind of understand what the view is and what they are looking at. Sometimes it\\u2019s a city view. Sometimes it\\u2019s mountains. Sometimes it\\u2019s lake. Sometimes it\\u2019s just an open field. Who know what it may be. But also, it\\u2019s not just the view. Sometimes people want light in their house. They want ventilation.
\\nInterviewer: Grow some plants kind of thing.
\\nSteve Tuma: Yeah, do that. Just enjoy it. Enjoy the light. There might be a family room where they want it bright. Other times, people want it dark if there\\u2019s a home theater situation.
\\nInterviewer: Right. Right.
\\nSteve Tuma: So that\\u2019s a key is kind of an understanding of what the goal is ...'