Ranch style.

First somenting about the "ranch history":
Originally the ranch home style was derived from southwestern and Spanish colonial homes. However the emergence of the first ranch homes appeared in the 1930’s and quickly became the dominant home design in American suburbia during the 1950’s. Ranch house plans feature an expressed freedom of space and were common among baby boomers.

Plans for ranch homes, simplistic in design gained popularity and made the use of abundant space in rural suburbs outside of the cities, which also provided the ability for individuals to drive cars to work. The ranch house supplied to what many Americans wanted, affordability, there own land, an open spacious house that could bring the outdoors in and provide an area for kids to play, spring time barbecues, and maybe a nice piece of soil for a gardener to enjoy.
Although ranch houses are often criticized as having little or no style, they were an extremely popular home choice between 1935 and 1975. Many people still prefer to purchase ranch house plans today because of their simple, yet efficient design.
A ranch style it's one of my favorites style. Most of the houses exterior and interiors are made with rustic and natural woods.

Restaurant design.

Some ideas to get inspired!

COLORS

The colors are the best way to make a space feel warm or cool. Colors are the target to define if you have a sad or happy environment. We have to be very careful choosing the right colors to the right space. Always when you are starting to make a room you should follow the color hues. Using some tips you can transform the simple to luxury.

Here are the tips:

When creating a warm or cool color scheme, choose one color as the predominant color and then other colors as accent colors.

If you have a long and narrow room, you can consider painting the end walls a darker shade than the long, narrow walls. The darker colors will recede and will create an illusion of width in this instance. Light colors will advance.

Solids and simple patterns reduce visual weight, while bold patterns add visual weight.

Bright and intense colors add visual weight, while muted, neutral colors reduce visual weight.

To make a small room look larger, choose a light-color paint and select furnishings in the same color family. Or, you can paint some of the furniture to match the walls.

Light-color ceilings will attract attention, but dark-color ceilings will direct the eye back to head level, allowing the focus to be on the walls, furnishings and accessories in a room.

Light affects color dramatically. Fluorescent light tends to be cool lighting and brings out more green or blue in a color. Incandescent light — light bulbs — brings more of the red or warmth out in a color. It is important to view colors in daylight or night, because they will appear different.

The location of color within an interior space can make a great deal of difference in influencing the room's character. A color placed on a ceiling, wall or door may elicit many different reactions.

Perception of temperature may also be altered with color. Most design schemes contain more than one color in a space, so if the design includes a color from each group — warm and cool — coordination of the space is still accomplished.

RED

• Ceilings: weighty and annoying.
• Walls: advancing and energetic.
• Floors: confident.

Red is predominantly used as an accent color, but we are currently seeing more of a trend using this color on walls. Large amounts of saturated red create a more complex space, while saturated brown-reds can make a room warm and inviting.

PINK

• Ceilings: soft hues delicate and comfortable.
• Walls: complementary to skin tones when soft or pale. Dramatic when highly saturated and vivid tones are used.
• Floors: for select and special spaces.

ORANGE

• Ceilings: energizing and advancing.
• Walls: soft peachy tones are warm and glowing. Bright tones are energetic, burnt orange shades are rich and warm.
• Floors: creates movement.

While orange is reserved typically for accents, pastel oranges are cheerful and lively. When this hue is close to peach, it has the ability to enhance skin tones and therefore would be a suitable color in a bathroom.

BROWN

• Ceiling: dark hues are heavy but work in high, open ceilings, especially to conceal exposed ductwork.
• Walls: mid-tone and dark hues can evoke richness, warmth and comfort. Soft hues are natural and create a neutral backdrop for furnishings.
• Floors: implies durability, stability and reliability.

The light values of brown are good environments for work or for living. The red-browns have a good use in interiors because they bring warmth and comfort.

YELLOW

• Ceiling: light hue, luminous, reflective and glowing.
• Walls: warm if a golden hue.
• Floors: bright hues are distracting and agitating.

Ideal for safety purposes due to the high visibility qualities, it also appears brighter than white and is useful in poorly illuminated and dim spaces.

GREEN

• Ceiling: protective (reflection on skin tone can be unattractive).
• Walls: safe, calm, reliable, neutral, yellow based hues create warmth, blue based hues tend to be cool.
• Floors: natural up to a certain saturation point (light to dark), soft, relaxing (if closer to blue-green).

Green is an excellent color for interior environments, especially when involving concentration and meditation.

BLUE

• Ceiling: soft shades are cool and heavenly, dark hues give the illusion of the ceiling advancing.
• Walls: pale to mid-tone shades are soothing, darker hues provide a dramatic backdrop.
• Floors: movement (darker hues) to effortless movement (lighter hues).

Blue has a tendency to be cold and bleak if applied to large areas. Medium or deep tones are appropriate in incidental areas. Pale blue is refracted sharply by the lens of the eye, therefore it tends to cast a haze over details and objects in the environment.

GRAY

• Ceiling: shaded, creates shadows.
• Walls: bland to neutral, cool and neutral.
• Floors: neutral. Blends into a space.

Gray is the color, which inspires creative people to become more creative. Gray is a great classifier. It performs the opposite of orange in that it makes things seem more exclusive.

WHITE

• Ceiling: blank - creates lightness, reflects light and reduces shadows.
• Walls: neutral to empty, clean.
• Floors: intimidating.

White indicates delicacy, refinement and sophistication. White may be too harsh as an interior color in some climates. All-white work environments encourage great precision.

BLACK

• Ceiling: heavy but works well for an exposed ceiling with open ductwork.
• Walls: threatening or dramatic.
• Floors: unusual and absorbing. Dark furnishings would get lost placed directly on this floor color.

Floor plan.

Are you thinking to create a floor plan, some

basic tips can help you to make a beutiful

and nicely one. And before you start I

recomend to read a book that calls "What

color is your sleepcover?" This book has a lot

of interactive exercice that you can make by

yourself to descover what is better for you in

your home and where you can place each

element.
After you have chosen your home's style,

there are just four steps to finding a floor

plan to go with it. And to do that you must:

Step 1: Establish Your Priorities

Step 2: Find that Perfect Floor Plan

Step 3: Determine if the House Plan is

Suitable for the Building Site.

Step 4: Make a scale drawing of each room

of your favorite floor plan.

By performing the above four steps you will

discover whether or not a house plan is right

for you. Most house plans are quickly ruled

out within Step 2. However, in some cases, it

may take going all the way through step #4

to be certain.

Keep in mind that you may be able to make

simple changes to the floor plan and home

style to fit your desires. As always, it is a

good idea to consult with the home desiger

and/or a qualified professional before

making changes to any plan.

I'm not going to say that the above four

steps can be accomplished in a few days. In

fact, it could take several weeks or even

months to figure out if a floor plan is

actually perfect for you.

The home plan you choose affects both your

home's budget and, most importantly how

well your family will be able live together

among other factors. Therefore, a house plan

should never be chosen quickly.