A shelter using the landscape for protection.
What are Natural Shelters?
This is a percentage of the value of your home, paid yearly.
What is Property Tax?
These are used to determine what types of buildings can be constructed in different areas of a city.
What are Zoning Laws?
Updating a kitchen or bathroom
What is an example of changing a living area?
The areas of a home where work is completed. Includes: Kitchen, laundry room, garage
What is the Service Zone?
These were used by nomads so they could travel and bring shelter with them
What are Portable Shelters?
The money you pay up front to purchase a home.
This is the principle where you are able to leave a building without a key that is locked to get in
What is Free Egress?
Adding an attached garage
What is an example of adding on?
Few dividing walls separate spaces, particularly social zones.
These are structures built by farmers and herders to live in areas with fertile soil and water access.
What are Permanent Shelters?
The fees paid to the bank for giving you the home loan.
What is Closing Costs?
A set of regulations that governs the design, construction, and modification of buildings and structures.
What are Building Codes?
Finishing an unfinished basement
What is an example of changing a living area?
Rooms are separated by walls and mostly self contained.
What are Closed Floor Plans?
This group lived in the city center.
What is the Wealthy Class?
This is a percentage of the loan paid to the bank.
What is Mortgage Interest?
Any project that updates or changes a homes systems, layout, or structure
What is Remodeling?
These are 3 things to consider when remodeling.
What are
Cost
Convenience
Commitment
The quiet, comfortable area of a home. Includes: Bedrooms & Bathrooms
What are Private Zones?
This group lived in the "middle" ring of early cities, not the center and not the outskirts.
What is the Merchant Class?
This is the difference between what you owe on your home and what your home is actually worth.
What is home equity?
Any project that restores a home to its original appearance, structure, or layout
What is Renovating?
These are the 4 types of remodeling.
What are:
1) Changing a living Area
2) Making unused space livable
3) Adding on
4) Buying to remodel
The parts of a home where people gather. Includes: living room, dining room, entryway, rec rooms, patios
What are Social Zones?