Home Building Advice

Common sense tips and advice on home design and house building.

House design and building your own house is well within the capabilities of most people provided you have the time, but it does take considerable research, plans and concentration.

With good home building advice you could consider acting as your own general contractor you can expect to save from 15 to 40 percent on the cost homebuilding! If you are generally handy with tools, and have some knowledge of the trades, especially carpentry, and are willing to build your own house yourself you may cut costs even more.

Even with good home building advice please keep in mind that home design, plans and homebuilding can be quite time consuming, and may be quite a strain on you and your family if you try to do too much yourself. It is a big job in itself just to do the new home plans, oversee construction and deal with the numerous, sometimes complex, situations involved in home designs and house building.

Plans for every aspect of building your home is the key to a successful project! By careful planning you can avoid the surprises that so often lay waste to dreams that were developed haphazardly.

Every hour spent on blue prints is a good investment. With good blue prints, by the time construction begins, you may be able to supervise the project with consistent home building advice.

NOTE - These are general discussion articles only.