Building Your Home

Browsing through house plans is easier than ever with our new "Home Plan Finder" iPad App. You can sort through our pre-designed home plans from anywhere!

If you’re deciding whether a basement is right for your home, here are some pros and cons of house plans with basements.

If you're considering going green with sustainable house design, here are the common features of green house plans.

Concerning environmental standards, the sustainable home design field has an effective system for rating green house plans: LEED certification. Here are the benefits.

If you are buying a new home, here are a few reasons you might want to purchase stock house plans, which are pre-designed home plans with floor plan layouts.

Planning on working with a home remodeling designer? Outline your specific goals to keep the project on-track. Here are 5 common goals of a home remodel design.

When ordering predesigned house plans, you might not find exactly what you want, but floor plans can often be modified. Here are some commonly made modifications.

If you're considering selecting custom home plans or floor plans for a new home, here are 5 questions to ask yourself before making the final decision.

When considering house plans to customize, the planning stage is very important. Here are 6 tips to help you and your designer build your dream home together.

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We hope you managed to join us for the hugely successful Clark County Parade of Homes, where NW Classic Homes showcased Mascord plan 2396 - The Vidabelo. During the show, we offered visitors the chance to win a complete house plan package; any Mascord designed plan available on Houseplans.co, delivered as a reproducible PDF...

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A simple glossary of terms used throughout houseplans.co, all related to construction and home building. Interested in more construction information? Check out our blog pages!

Each set of home plans that Houseplans.co offers will provide you with all the necessary information to build your home. Our plans come detailed to meet the latest International Residential Code, and include gravity loading calcs and beam specifications as needed for the home's design.

No doubt, some of the most interesting pages for you in your blueprints will be the floor plans. But to understand them, you will need to decipher the numbers and symbols that provide the keys to what they say. First, floor plans — and all of the other drawings in a set of blueprints.

Every person has his or her own idea of what a dream home really is, so designing and building a custom home is a very personal decision. Paul Beaudoin is a general contractor in Raleigh, and the owner of Lifestyle Building & Remodeling Co. Inc.. According to him, whatever a homeowner's dream may be, it is the contractor's job to turn it into reality.

You want a builder that has experience. Things come up during construction and you want to make sure your builder has the experience or knowledge to deal with. Make sure the builder you choose has the ability to build the type of construction you are looking for. Look for a builder that has a proven track record, professional business approach, technical skills and the knowledge.

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