User Friendly Houses
In a User Friendly Home, Form Follows Function

Just what is user-friendliness?

It's simple.
A User-Friendly House is one that is designed
and built to best suit the needs of the user! Most are not.

	Carpets under eating bars are bad news

Form and Function
Architects talk about form (how it looks) and function (how it works). They are important. User-friendliness is a part of function, a part that architects, designers and builders generally ignore.

Why should you put up with irritations that could have been avoided in the first place? It's not that you can't walk from the sink to the dishwasher dripping every dish - IT'S THAT YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TO!

The problem is not trivial. The New-Home Checklist, for example, lists over 300 different details that can impact on your life in your new home. Some are simply choices you should make (or someone else will) and some are user-unfriendly things you're likely to want to avoid. These are all discussed in Better Houses, Better Living.

	Better Houses, Better Living and the Bonus New-Home Checklist are available for shipment The Sun City Grand solution to the sidle-toilet problem

Looking Good Is Not the Only Thing
As long as more thought is given to looks and little, if any, to user friendliness, people will buy what they think is attractive. We have become so caught up in how the house looks, in the architectural styles with the latest innovations, that we forget we're going to have to live in it too.

The User-Friendly Trend
This attitude, where user-friendliness is ignored, is changing. Ferguson says he was impressed by Sun City Grand, a Del Webb subdivision outside of Phoenix where the user was finally taken into consideration in the design and construction. In the meantime, it's still very much  caveat emptor,buyer beware.

Even though we're not selling houses, we do want people to get a better, user-friendly home.
Better Houses, Better Living will help do that.

Next, see Everyone Wins for help with yours.

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