This category is intended for resources related to participating in the design and construction of new homes and/or major additions. This includes tips on how to be your own general contractor, how to work with contractors and businesses, and tips for optimizing the design of a complete home.
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Watch the construction of a traditional adobe home being built near Albuquerque, NM. Weekly updates by Adobe Home builder, David C. Peterson.
List of steps which can be taken by homeowners that are unhappy with their builder.
Home improvement site with tips and advice from painting to building a new home.
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.
Highlights the best in Masonry design - interior and exterior photos including information about the builder, the architect, the mason supplier and contractor.
Article by Masa Noguchi, Ph.D that discusses a new approach to the delivery of quality affordable homes of tomorrow.
This site provides information for owner builders to help them manage the building process from preconstruction through project completion.
An account of building a kit pole home on a block of bushland in Pemberton, Western Australia.
Instructions and drawings explaining how to layout log rafters using a steel square.
Chronicling the construction of an earth home in northeastern Oklahoma.
Photo journal which documents the 1998 construction of a post and beam home centered around a "great room."
Chronicling the construction of an earth home in northeastern Oklahoma.
Home improvement site with tips and advice from painting to building a new home.
This site provides information for owner builders to help them manage the building process from preconstruction through project completion.
An account of building a kit pole home on a block of bushland in Pemberton, Western Australia.
Highlights the best in Masonry design - interior and exterior photos including information about the builder, the architect, the mason supplier and contractor.
List of steps which can be taken by homeowners that are unhappy with their builder.
Instructions and drawings explaining how to layout log rafters using a steel square.
Article by Masa Noguchi, Ph.D that discusses a new approach to the delivery of quality affordable homes of tomorrow.
Watch the construction of a traditional adobe home being built near Albuquerque, NM. Weekly updates by Adobe Home builder, David C. Peterson.
Photo journal which documents the 1998 construction of a post and beam home centered around a "great room."
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.
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