Southern Living House Plans

Clarke Snell is a green building consultant out of the Asheville, N.C. area who teaches classes, built the Nauhaus prototype house (Passivehaus) in West Asheville, and wrote the green building book Building Green with Tim Callahan. Consultants like Clark usually charge about $150/hour plus travel if they have to drive a distance to meet. Of all the free home design software programs that I have tried, Google SketchUp is my favorite by far. Just as with DesignWorkshop Lite, you can do anything from renovating your bathroom to building a skyscraper with this package. You can even create a model of your home or business, export the image, and put it in Google Earth. Lot size, shape and location are crucial elements to consider when choosing home plans. Narrow, long lots, for instance, offer the most space for home with multiple levels. On the other hand, a shallow, large lot could accommodate a spacious one-story home. Ultimately, no two dogs are the same, no two dog owners are the same. So the needs of both the dogs and the owners will be varied and many commercially available doghouses will not always fit the bill to a tee. Not to mention they can be incredibly pricey, in particular for large doggies. Ranch style homes are where all the bedrooms are placed in one wing or side of the home. To have a second floor it would be an attic or bonus split room bedroom ranch home. The master bedroom is normally well separated from the others, normally at opposite ends of the home. There are hundreds of websites that sell home plans, and most include a search function. Google the terms "floor plans," "home plans" or "house plans." You will find a variety of sites that allow you to find and compare home designs by style, square footage, number of floors and just about anything on your list. Most stock plans will offer a material list to go with the blueprints. This gives you the list of materials and how much you will need. A material list is a great aid in the cost estimations. Often, the stock plans will also include an Outline Specification that you can modify to the products that suit you. Chuck Hall with the Culture Artist Organization does workshops on natural building in the Greenville, S.C. and Asheville, N.C. area. Email him at chuck@cultureartist.org if you want to sponsor a workshop at your building site or sign up for his newsletter on his website to get notices of his workshops. His last one in Greenville was in October 2012 and cost $25. Visit my website at [HTTP://www.Dobredomy.pl/projekty/domy-energooszczedne projekty domow energooszczednych]