Compact Cabins: Simple Living in 1000 Square Feet or Less by Gerald Rowan is a nice book to give you some beginning ideas on building a small dwelling. There are 62 plan idea in the book, most of which are very unique. There are even a handful of designs that utilize shipping containers [...]
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Ron Czecholinski over at www.diy-home-building.com has been working on re-tooling his site (no pun intended!). It’s starting to look really beautiful! He has categories like “Build Your House”, “Design Your House”, “Green Home Building”, “Home Building Kits”, “House Building Plans”, “Remodeling”, and “Resources”. A Wood Manor playhouse. Thought you’d be interested in a peak at some serious playhouses for kids! This would make a pretty cool Christmas/holiday present!! Kits, pre-builts, and plans are all available at Wood Manor Playhouses for Kids. Fine Homebuilding is a tremendous resource for everything related to quality construction and woodworking projects. They’ve now just completed a video series on building a shed. There are 16 short videos in all going all the way from an overview of the project to a basic block foundation to framing to installing lap [...] Tuanton press has a wonderful website dedicated to green building practices and advice, Green Building Advisor. Lots of free information is accessible without needing a membership, unlike their Fine Homebuilding site. There are several running blogs by contributing editors. Topics include: * Building Science Another take on building a small house with [...] Another reader passed along this link to a great website by the University of Tennessee Extension. There’s a wealth of information there! Most of the plans are for agricultural related buildings like barns and sheds, but there are a few for simple cabins. The plans come in pdf format that are printable on [...] Gail, a regular reader, submitted a suggestion of starting with a closet shelving project to get the feel for building something. I think that’s a great suggestion! Many home improvement stores have modular shelving of one type or another, so you can buy the components as you need them. The picture is Gail’s own [...] Many of you said you just didn’t know where to begin. So I’m setting down in a beginner’s book some great advice for where to start when you don’t have a clue, and then get you going in the right [...] Welcome to all you small house enthusiasts! My intention with this blog is to keep up to date about information that comes out in the media concerning the building of small houses. And if any of you come across some information that you’d like to see added here please drop me a line. |
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