I am considering to build a round concrete home(1500 sqft). Where would I find floor plans for ideas?

Question

I live in Canada.

Answer 1

We've built several of these in Las Vegas, one caused a divorce, they are just not practical, lot's of wasted space.
I'll guarantee you won't be happy with it. Don't do it.

Answer 2

I sure hope you find another career to fund this - buildings, even kennels, are very expensive to build properly and you'll be spending quite a bit of money to start up. Before you even consider this, do some research - find out different prices from different building companies and compare them. You'll also need building permits, probably variances if your property is small, you'll need to know where you can PUT the kennels on your property, you'll need inspections, you'll need papers and licenses for the building/businesses/etc..... When planning kennels for boarding you'll want simplicity and safety, though. A big building with dog runs, separate building for puppies. Sealed concrete floors, possibly with rubber matting, so you can hose them down easily and clean them with soap/bleach. Any play areas should be separate and dogs should not be allowed full outdoor access when no one is around. The bottoms of the dividers between kennels should be SOLID so dogs cannot fence fight through the chain link. Grooming and grooming kennels should be in a separate area than dogs being boarding. I would stick with the same, simple floor in the kennel area and linoleum in the grooming/bathing area itself. Office can be anything you like it to be. You'll essentially be running two businesses - that's going to take some juggling. You need to find some business classes to learn everything there is to know about owning your own business - i suggest starting with ONE and expanding later on. There will also be legal fees for contracts, legal issues regarding what should happen to the dogs in your care and consequences if something does happen to them... then there's employees. It is not simple.

Answer 3

http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-msgr&p=circular%20concrete%20houses

This is a general link through a yahoo search. I have no clue that it will help.

Certainly YOUR choice of design and the viability of it are most important. Obviously poured concrete slab walls are used often; especially in commercial construction. I go past a MALL every day on my rounds and one day there was a SLAB, next day all the walls to the large building were in place.

You'd need to also define an over structure/Roof; IE: Dome/ flat/ single slope/ etc, and all the support framing for whatever.

I'm not at all certain "plans" are available; especially specifics; or FREE; but in order to find any; searching the WWW with keywords is where I'd probably begin; even adding "Canada"

Steven Wolf

Answer 4

ok, I dont' have plans, but let me advise you about a round house in our neighborhood. Kids call it the Chinese restaraunt house, and it's always coming up for sale.

If you are going to build yourself an igloo, be sure it's where you will want to be for a long, long time because as nice as they are, they aren't popular.