Andy's How To Homebuilding
Tips and advice on designing, contracting and building your own home.
Renovation Wizard
A calculator that offers average costs of numerous projects then shows their value when selling the home.
Rafter Layout with Log Timbers
Instructions and drawings explaining how to layout log rafters using a steel square.
MSN House and Home: Working with a Contractor
Step-by-step advice for evaluating contractors, creating a remodeling budget, and working with a contractor and other workers throughout the project.
Project: Pembee
An account of building a kit pole home on a block of bushland in Pemberton, Western Australia.
General Contracting Your Own Home
Homeowner's account of a home construction project where the family acted as general contractor. Includes an overview of the plan, a journal, and photographs from foundation to finish.
Log Homes and Cabins Information
Articles on contractors, building, buying, and financing related to residential log buildings.
Code Check
Online version of the popular field guide to the most common code violations for residential construction.
Design Basics: Trends
Covers trends in home improvement and house buying.
Family Room Project
One homeowner's journal of converting the garage into a family room--includes pictures.
Building a Custom Home
One family's monthly diary on the construction of their home, complete with tips and ideas.
Help For Unhappy Homeowners
List of steps which can be taken by homeowners that are unhappy with their builder.
American Hardwood Species Guide
Independent information source on North American hardwoods.
How Did I Do It?
Information, pictures, and instructions for home improvement projects such finishing a basement, remodeling a bathroom, and installing central air.
How Stuff Works: Home Building
Informative 7-part narrative, with figures and pictures, illustrates how a house is built.
Examples, Photos, and Ideas about Custom Home Libraries and Library Designs
An extensive resource filled with examples of custom home libraries and related links.
Mass Custom Home
Article by Masa Noguchi, Ph.D that discusses a new approach to the delivery of quality affordable homes of tomorrow.
Septic System Information
Articles, FAQ, and diagrams that explain residential septic systems.
Adobe by the Rio Grande
Watch the construction of a traditional adobe home being built near Albuquerque, NM. Weekly updates by Adobe Home builder, David C. Peterson.
Building at the Ledge
Building a dream home, a journal by the owner. Discusses passive solar design, alternative methods, design decisions, emotional turmoil.
The Wilder Home
Homeowners' account of the construction of their hurricane-proof waterfront home in Gulf Shores, Alabama of Dac-Art man-made stone, with glass tile mosaics.
Split-Level Homes
Homeowner guide to various divided entry homes, including bi-level, split-level, and raised ranch. Concepts, interior design, additions, landscaping.
Idea Workshop Journal
Collection of articles focusing on design issues in the home. Covers designing a home office, basement foundation guidelines, planning for accessibility, zoned heating and cooling systems, creating architectural detail with drywall, and kitchen design.
Village Post And Beam
Photo journal which documents the 1998 construction of a post and beam home centered around a "great room."
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