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Welcome to the free Design Your Own Home online tutorial. This simple to follow tutorial will walk you through a complete house design process starting with analyzing your property, then planning your indoor and outdoor spaces based on your household needs (and wants), learning basic structural design principles (what holds up a house) and finishing with creating a full set of floor plans and construction house blueprints.





When I first set out to design my home, I read everything I could find on house design and searched everywhere for some kind of tutorial or training course to walk me through the process of starting with raw land and ending up with a home design that would fit my family beautifully.

After an exhaustive search, we were stumped and set about learning how to design a new home the hard way. We created many floor plans and even a few sets of full structural designs before finalizing our house design and then building the home.Design My Home

With a background in engineering, many of the structural design principles were easy to understand. My other career background is in designing educational training courses and this side of me kept wanting to create a tutorial to provide others with a clear method for how to design a new home.

The result is this free design your own home online tutorial. This tutorial will guide you through a detailed step-by-step effective process to design your own house. During this free online tutorial, you will design a home online by:

  • Performing a site analysis
  • Researching local zoning regulations
  • Planning outdoor spaces
  • Performing a home needs analysis
  • Designing indoor spaces
  • Planning and designing the house exterior
  • Learning the basics of residential structural design
  • Designing floor plans
  • Creating a three-dimensional scale model of the house design
  • Learning how to make your own blueprint or investigating the various home design software programs available
  • Creating full house plans, including cross-sections and elevations

    Start to Design a Home Online Now

    To start designing your home go to Module 1 of the Design your Own House Online Tutorial: Site Analysis.


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