- A Homeowners Guide to Renovations and Additions
Guide to planning, financing and completing a remodeling project.
- 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.
- American Hardwood Species Guide
Independent information source on North American hardwoods.
- Andy's How To Homebuilding
Tips and advice on designing, contracting and building your own home.
- 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.
- BuilderSelect
Resource for finding a builder, financing, planning and designing a new home.
- Building a Custom Home
One family's monthly diary on the construction of their home, complete with tips and ideas.
- Building at the Ledge
Building a dream home, a journal by the owner. Discusses passive solar design, alternative methods, design decisions, emotional turmoil.
- Code Check
Online version of the popular field guide to the most common code violations for residential construction.
- Custom Homexpress
Custom house building plans and online costing estimates. Design a home and calculate costs and time line.
- Diligent Home Inspections
Information and resources for homeowners and potential buyers dealing with home inspections.
- 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.
- Help For Unhappy Homeowners
List of steps which can be taken by homeowners that are unhappy with their builder.
- How Stuff Works: Home Building
Informative 7-part narrative, with figures and pictures, illustrates how a house is built.
- 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.
- 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.
- Permit Place
Advice and assistance with preparing and obtaining building permits, checklists, permit exemptions, and FAQs. [Some information specific to United States.]
- Rafter Layout with Log Timbers
Instructions and drawings explaining how to layout log rafters using a steel square.
- Robin and Korstiaan are Building a New Home
Homeowners' photographic journal of the construction of a new home in Auckland, New Zealand.
- 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.
- Village Post And Beam
Photo journal which documents the 1998 construction of a post and beam home centered around a "great room."
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