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Choosing and designing a home

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  • What can be used to decorate a room
    Floor coverings, wall coverings, soft furnishings, lighting
  • List three features of design
    Function, form, colour, pattern, texture.
  • Describe three types of houses
    Houses, apartments, mobile homes, institutions, sheltered housing
  • Factors to consider when room planning
    Function, money available, size and shape, existing fixtures and fittings, heating and lighting, storage, traffic flow, aspect, likes and dislikes
  • What are amenities
  • What are the two types of amenities
    Natural, human-made
  • What must a well-designed kitchen
    Hygienic, storage space, bright and well-ventilated.
  • What should be considered when choosing a home
    Cost, locations, availability, size, special needs, energy efficiency, style of house
  • What are the two types of services
    Statutory, voluntary.
  • Explain the feature of design of form
    shape and line
  • What are the design principles
    Proportion, emphasis, balance, rhythm
  • Explain emhpasis
    When the eye is drawn towards something or an area of the room, a.k.a. focal point.
  • What is a floor plan
    A to-scale sketch of a room drawn on graph paper