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 opt...
This page was last updated on October 6th, 2008
This page was last updated on October 6th, 2008
Design and Construction (from Home Improvement)
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Rafter Layout with Log Timbers
Instructions and drawings explaining how to layout log rafters using a steel square.
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.
Diligent Home Inspections
Information and resources for homeowners and potential buyers dealing with home inspections.
Robin and Korstiaan are Building a New Home
Homeowners' photographic journal of the construction of a new home in Auckland, New Zealand.
Andy's How To Homebuilding
Tips and advice on designing, contracting and building your own home.
Split-Level Homes
Homeowner guide to various divided entry homes, including bi-level, split-level, and raised ranch. Concepts, interior design, additions, landscaping.
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.
Code Check
Online version of the popular field guide to the most common code violations for residential construction.
Permit Place
Advice and assistance with preparing and obtaining building permits, checklists, permit exemptions, and FAQs. [Some information specific to United States.]
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.
Architects Attic
On-line resource of architectural information, home design, floor plan selection and building products.
Village Post And Beam
Photo journal which documents the 1998 construction of a post and beam home centered around a "great room."
American Hardwood Species Guide
Independent information source on North American hardwoods.
How Stuff Works: Home Building
Informative 7-part narrative, with figures and pictures, illustrates how a house is built.
Bob Vila's Dotcom Dreamhome
Web-driven home-building project. An experiment in internet-enabled, residential construction explores the growing toolbox of internet-based options for homebuilders and consumers.
MSN House and Home: Working with a Contractor
Step-by-step advice for evaluating contractors, creating a remodelling budget, and working with a contractor and other workers throughout the project.
Building a Custom Home
One family's monthly diary on the construction of their home, complete with tips and ideas.
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.
BuilderSelect
Resource for finding a builder, financing, planning and designing a new home.
Help For Unhappy Homeowners
List of steps which can be taken by homeowners that are unhappy with their builder.
Building at the Ledge
Building a dream home, a journal by the owner. Discusses passive solar design, alternative methods, design decisions, emotional turmoil.
Instructions and drawings explaining how to layout log rafters using a steel square.
Watch the construction of a traditional adobe home being built near Albuquerque, NM. Weekly updates by Adobe Home builder, David C. Peterson.
Information and resources for homeowners and potential buyers dealing with home inspections.
Homeowners' photographic journal of the construction of a new home in Auckland, New Zealand.
Tips and advice on designing, contracting and building your own home.
Homeowner guide to various divided entry homes, including bi-level, split-level, and raised ranch. Concepts, interior design, additions, landscaping.
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.
Online version of the popular field guide to the most common code violations for residential construction.
Advice and assistance with preparing and obtaining building permits, checklists, permit exemptions, and FAQs. [Some information specific to United States.]
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.
On-line resource of architectural information, home design, floor plan selection and building products.
Photo journal which documents the 1998 construction of a post and beam home centered around a "great room."
Independent information source on North American hardwoods.
Informative 7-part narrative, with figures and pictures, illustrates how a house is built.
Web-driven home-building project. An experiment in internet-enabled, residential construction explores the growing toolbox of internet-based options for homebuilders and consumers.
Step-by-step advice for evaluating contractors, creating a remodelling budget, and working with a contractor and other workers throughout the project.
One family's monthly diary on the construction of their home, complete with tips and ideas.
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.
Resource for finding a builder, financing, planning and designing a new home.
List of steps which can be taken by homeowners that are unhappy with their builder.
Building a dream home, a journal by the owner. Discusses passive solar design, alternative methods, design decisions, emotional turmoil.
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