Avoid Costly House Plans Mistakes with Proper PreparationThis website will provide you with all the tools and tutorials to guide you down either path: planning your dream house first before choosing unique home plans or completely designing your own house right through to drawing your house floor plans by hand or using home design software. This website is in its initial stages, come back often as new material is added. If you wish to be informed as new material and e-books are added or if there is a house design topic you'd really like to see covered, please contact us. Plan your House Before Buying House PlansCountless people who have built homes after purchasing a generic plan have told us that the house they had built does not work for their family. It looked good on paper but living in it feels awkward at best. By following our Plan Your Home Before Building House Plans tutorial, you can avoid this very costly mistake.Here you will analyze your land, local zoning laws, complete a needs worksheet and then proceed to creating a simple map of your land. Next, you design the outdoor and indoor spaces of your home to create a detailed planning blueprint. Then, we will teach you how to read home plans so those house designs you’re looking at online or in a plan book come to life. You have already designed the house in a very loose form. Now, as you look at available house plans you can quickly sift through them to determine whether the house floor plans, room design, room locations and circulation flow match your needs worksheet and planning blueprint. Design Your Own HouseThis tutorial will guide you through a detailed step-by-step effective house design process. During this tutorial, you will:Our StoryWhen my husband and I set out to design our own house, I searched high and low for good information that actually detailed the steps required for designing a house. Since I had spent years designing tutorials and courses, I hoped to find some kind of online (or offline) course that would walk me through the process. Instead, I found a handful of books and started down the tough road of trial and error.After creating at least 200 floor plans (and at least four plans with a complete structural design), I began to figure out a design process that really worked. And I noticed design elements that needed to be decided very early in the design - things like where the main entrance, stairwell and fireplace would be. These elements wreaked havoc on the design if not incorporated early enough. Now that our family of four is happily living in our custom designed home, I have the time to organize and share with you the secrets of house design that I discovered throughout our journey. So choose your path, follow the navigation buttons in the left-hand margin of the page and start designing. Enjoy! We love feedback! Please contact us. If there is anything on this site that you found particularly useful, please tell us about it. Or if there are things you would really like to see here, we’d love to hear that too.
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