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Small House Plans & Designs

Choosing New Home Plans for Your Small House

Once you’ve decided to build your own small house (or have it built for you), you’re going to need plans. Before you even start building, you will need these to cost the project accurately, and if necessary to raise funds for building. You also need plans for your local authority or council, since you will not be allowed to start building until they check and pass your plans. Read more…

Affordable Small House Plans

Are you searching for affordable small house plans? The plethora of websites out there that are selling house plans is staggering. And the average cost for just one set of plans is $400 to $600. Over $1000 isn’t uncommon. Then add about $75 to $100 for each additional set of plans. Yikes! Read more…

Building a Cheap House

Have you been shopping around for ways and means to building a cheap house? Are you shocked at the cost of building a conventional stud frame house? I rather cringe at the use of “cheap” when talking about building a house that’s affordable. To me “cheap” means slip-shod construction with subpar building materials. Think of your typical mobile home with thin and weak materials that are usually very quickly slapped together to produce some semblance of a weatherproof and cozy house. Read more…

Plans for Small Houses

Plans for small houses are in the minority on the house plan market. There are so many house plans out there that you could go cross-eyed looking through all the websites and plan books. Fortunately, plans for smaller houses tend to be simpler with less complex floor plan designs, wall placement, and roof framing. Read more…

Small House Architects & Builders

Small house architects and small house builders offer a unique product and perspective on the ubiquitous American pasttime of home building. These are folks who share an often similar view on trying to downsize not only the actual footprint, but also the “carbon footprint”, of building a home. Their objectives are to offer a feasible alternative to the super-sized home that seems to be sprouting everywhere, thus allowing the small home owner more freedoms to pursue other things in life besides material acquisitions being stored in over-sized houses. Read more…

Small House Designs

Typically, small houses tend to be less than 1,200 square feet total for a three-bedroom, two-bath home. However many small homes are as small as 65 square feet! Small house building is gaining in popularity as homeowners are realizing the many benefits of sacrificing living space in order to save money. Small house building is also important to those with environmental concerns as they realize how scaling back on space can save in gas, electricity, cooling costs and even building materials. Read more…




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