Dream Home Project



Dream Home Project

Congratulations!  You have been selected to design a dream home for you and a friend.  To get ready for this special assignment, you must be sure that you have the skills that you, the architects, will need. A solid understanding of area and perimeter is required. You will design and draw the floor plan for your dream house. Then you will determine how much carpet or tile you will need in all of the rooms, how much paint you will need in all of the rooms, and how much fencing you will need to go around your yard to make sure your dog doesn't get away while you are at school.

Your final product will be a floor plan, a budget of what you will spend, and a drawing of how your house will look from the front. Feel free to use the planning sheet below or create a planning sheet of your own to present your budget information. Make sure you include all of the important information in an easy to read format.

Directions:

1. Create a rough draft of what your house will look like using blank paper. When you are certain you have the perfect house you may go onto the next step.

2. Draw your dream house on one-millimeter graph paper.  One millimeter is going to equal 1 foot! You must have at least eight rooms. You need to have a perimeter of at least 300 feet. Label each room!

3. Figure out how many square feet of carpet you will need for each room.

a. Room one area ____________________________

b. Room two area ____________________________

c. Room three area ____________________________

d. Room four area ____________________________

e. Room five area ____________________________

f. Room six area ____________________________

4. If carpet costs $2 per square foot, how much will you spend on carpet your your entire house? ____________________________

5. Choose two rooms where you want to use tile. Figure out how many square feet of tile you will need.

a. Room seven area ____________________________

b. Room eight area ____________________________

6. If tile costs $3 per square foot, how much will you spend on tile for your entire house? ____________________________

7. If your ceilings are eight feet tall, figure out the area for each wall (remember there are four walls in each room) and the ceiling.

|Room |Wall 1 |Wall 2 |Wall 3 |Wall 4 |Ceiling |

|1 | | | | | |

|2 | | | | | |

|3 | | | | | |

|4 | | | | | |

|5 | | | | | |

|6 | | | | | |

|7 | | | | | |

|8 | | | | | |

8. If paint costs $1 per one hundred square feet, how much will you spend on paint for the entire house? ____________________________

9. Draw a fence around your yard. If one piece of fencing is six feet long, figure out how many pieces of fencing you will need. ____________________________

10. If one piece of fence costs $5 per piece, how much will you spend on fencing? ____________________________

11. What is the total cost to carpet, paint, and put a fence around your dream home? ____________________________

12. Draw the front view of your home.

13. Bonus: Can you add windows or a door to any room? How does that change the amount of paint and carpet you will need? _________________________

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15. Bonus: Figure out the cost to carpet and paint the hallways in your house.

Hallway carpet cost ____________________________

Hallway paint cost ____________________________

Congratulations! You have used your knowledge of measurement, multiplication, area, and perimeter to design a house.  You have also used your artistic ability to share it with your classmates.  Who knows? This may be the beginning of a new career.

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