Do you build the exterior or interior first?

"lsnishi;c-16634421" wrote:
It's interesting how most seem to do the exterior first. The reason this comes to my mind, is that someone was mentioning that houses they download often have windows placed strangely in rooms, like right up against the walls. I know this is because if you want the exterior to have symmetrical window placements, rooms often end up with window placements that are asymmetric or right up against a wall. If you do the interior first, the windows are symmetrically placed for each room but the exterior looks haphazard.

It is kind of a giveaway as to which way the home was built, if the windows aren't symmetrical either outside or inside. I hadn't thought about that.

What I do sometimes is put furniture down on the ground, the way it will be in the house, so I know how big I want the rooms to be.

This helps me, especially if I'm building on a really small lot, and I know that I need to conserve space. I delete the furniture after I have the walls up, because they are just place holders, not what I actually want.

After I put the walls up, interior and exterior, I do the outside decorating first. As in, paint, trim, windows, doors, stairs, porches, columns, railings. Things that are attached to the house. Then I do the inside of the house, and then back outside for the landscaping.

I guess I've done it the way some of you do, build the outer walls first, and then try to divide it up nicely, but it never works out quite as well