Investors and cost-conscious homeowners have a new book to help them reach their goals. Multifamily Home Plans from Home Planners showcases 117 plans that are perfect as investment properties or cash-generating personal residences.With over 7,000 internet sites selling duplexes, townhomes and other multifamily dwellings, todays economy demands these unique and popular homes.Prudent investors use duplexes and townhomes to diversify their assets. As income-producing properties, multifamily units are perfect assets to balance against todays rocky stock market. Owner-investors find them low in cost and efficient to build.
Select from a catalog of more than 360 expertly prepared plans for building small homes under 1,200 square feet. Easy-to-follow construction blueprints and materials lists are available for each project to ensure success.
Today, there is a tremendous mismatch between the available housing stock in the US and the housing options that people want and need. The post-WWII, auto-centric, single-family-development model no longer meets the needs of residents. Urban areas in the US are experiencing dramatically shifting household and cultural demographics and a growing demand for walkable urban living. Missing Middle Housing, a term coined by Daniel Parolek, describes the walkable, desirable, yet attainable housing that many people across the country are struggling to find. Missing Middle Housing types—such as duplexes, fourplexes, and bungalow courts—can provide options along a spectrum of affordability. In Missing Middle Housing, Parolek, an architect and urban designer, illustrates the power of these housing types to meet today’s diverse housing needs. With the benefit of beautiful full-color graphics, Parolek goes into depth about the benefits and qualities of Missing Middle Housing. The book demonstrates why more developers should be building Missing Middle Housing and defines the barriers cities need to remove to enable it to be built. Case studies of built projects show what is possible, from the Prairie Queen Neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska to the Sonoma Wildfire Cottages, in California. A chapter from urban scholar Arthur C. Nelson uses data analysis to highlight the urgency to deliver Missing Middle Housing. Parolek proves that density is too blunt of an instrument to effectively regulate for twenty-first-century housing needs. Complete industries and systems will have to be rethought to help deliver the broad range of Missing Middle Housing needed to meet the demand, as this book shows. Whether you are a planner, architect, builder, or city leader, Missing Middle Housing will help you think differently about how to address housing needs for today’s communities.
Building a new house begins with a home plan, but the two-dimensional drawings used by contractors are often difficult to interpret and challenging to visualize. In easy-to-understand language, Larry W. Garnett explains construction terminology and basic design principles, enabling you to expertly navigate every step of the home-building process. From selecting a plan to judging its room-by-room suitability and requesting modifications, Home Plan Doctor offers cost-effective suggestions and encouraging guidance so that you can create the house of your dreams.
Select from 730 of the most popular home plans from the country’s top architects and designers, with full color photos of the actual homes, floor plans, and design ideas. Virtually every home style is offered, including farmhouses, country cottages, contemporaries, luxury estates, vacation retreats, and regional specialties. Once you’ve selected your dream home, you can obtain easily customizable construction blueprints, cost estimates, materials lists, and CAD files.
Best-Selling House Plans offers readers more than 360 of the most successful and sought-after home designs from the top architects and designers across North America. CAD files are made available for every home and are easily customizable. Completely updated and revised, this new edition offers new home plans and pricing, special sections on home automation, home design trends, curb appeal tips, and more.
Ever dreamed of having your own cozy cabin nestled in the woods? This book will help you find the perfect efficient small home! With over 200 functional floor plans for cabins, cottages, a-frames, vacation homes, and apartment garages, select and order these expertly prepared plans that also include construction blueprints and CAD packages!
