{"id":784,"date":"2009-07-24T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/in-house\/?p=784"},"modified":"2009-07-23T21:01:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T04:01:02","slug":"modern-design-assistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/in-house\/properties\/modern-design-assistance","title":{"rendered":"Modern-Design Assistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With this month\u2019s launch of Hometta.com, homebuyers gain an unprecedented opportunity to build and enjoy intelligent, architect-designed homes. Hometta, a Web-based modern home plan company, is offering modestly sized, sustainable home designs from internationally recognized architecture studios, with the goal of making great design accessible and affordable to a large cross-section of prospective homeowners. Along with an initial offering of close to 30 modern home plans,\u00a0Hometta provides a complete array of educational resources that take the mystery out of building a new home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img  loading=\"lazy\"  decoding=\"async\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-785 pk-lazyload\"  title=\"modhouse\"  src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\"  alt=\"modhouse\"  width=\"458\"  height=\"296\"  data-pk-sizes=\"auto\"  data-ls-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\"  data-pk-src=\"http:\/\/arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/in-house\/wp-content\/uploads\/modhouse.jpg\"  data-pk-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/in-house\/wp-content\/uploads\/modhouse.jpg 458w, https:\/\/www.arizonafoothillsmagazine.com\/in-house\/wp-content\/uploads\/modhouse-300x193.jpg 300w\" ><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Mark Johnson, a Houston-based green homebuilder, and his frequent collaborator Andrew McFarland, a Houston architect, founded Hometta to improve the way residential architecture\u00a0is designed and delivered today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cHometta is offering modern home plans from sought-after designers at affordable prices,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cWe believe great design should not be limited to a small, elite market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Unlike traditional stock plan companies, Hometta has partnered with award-winning, progressive architects to develop home plans that emphasize affordability, sustainability and style. Johnson and McFarland enlisted four \u201ccore\u201d architects and designers, all known for highly innovative work, to establish the company\u2019s vision. The core group \u2014 James Evans, Dawn Finle, Brett Zamore adn Blair Satterfield\u00a0\u2014 in turn recruited the 20 talented studios who are contributing designs at launch. Collectively, these first 24 studios represent 17 cities, 9 US states, and 4 countries (Chile, China, Germany, and the U.S.).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cHometta is enabling us to reach a segment of homebuyers, those looking for smaller homes, who might never have considered real architecture to be an option,\u201d says Wes Jones, principal of Los Angeles-based Jones, Partners: Architects. \u201cAs someone who believes that architecture\u2019s responsibility to society begins with the dwelling, I\u2019m very happy to be associated with this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Images of home plans now available through Hometta can be viewed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hometta.com\/design\/houses\">www.hometta.com\/design\/houses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Free of charge, visitors to Hometta.com may view all home plan design renderings and floor plans, as well as original editorial content: professionally produced audio slideshows and video podcasts and a professionally edited blog with exclusive content from Hometta contributing architects.<\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With this month\u2019s launch of Hometta.com, homebuyers gain an unprecedented opportunity to build and enjoy intelligent, architect-designed homes.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[636,635,639,634,640,637,638],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-properties","tag-hometta","tag-homettacom","tag-how-to-design-a-modern-home","tag-modern-design-resources","tag-modern-home-design","tag-modern-home-planning","tag-planning-a-modern-home","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Modern-Design Assistance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With this month&#039;s launch of Hometta.com, homebuyers gain an unprecedented opportunity to build and enjoy intelligent, architect-designed homes. 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