Small House Building Blog » build a house http://blog.small-house-building.com Information on building your own small house. Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:01:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Free Plans from U of Tennesee http://blog.small-house-building.com/free-plans-from-u-of-tennesee http://blog.small-house-building.com/free-plans-from-u-of-tennesee#comments Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:08:28 +0000 Anne http://blog.small-house-building.com/?p=120

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.

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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 regular 8.5″ x 11″ paper. That makes the final printing rather small and difficult to read. But, for someone with some background experience in building and construction these plans will be easy enough to follow… and modify. I would venture to guess that you could even take any of these print outs to your building department for permit approval.

Even if you significantly modify any of their plans they’re a great starting place for thinking about building a small house. I printed out several of the small cabin plans and immediately started visualizing how to modify floor plans. The plans for the cabin shown here are under the Dormitory Loft Cabin heading.


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I will announce right now that, after reviewing the survey results from my website from last month, I decided to write an ebook on how to build a house for absolute beginners. So 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 direction.

After reading several “build your own house” type books on the market I could see that so many are written from the perspective of someone who’s been building for years. They’ve forgotten that beginner’s mindset and what it’s like to come at a project like this with virtually no background experience. Well, having been there myself I feel uniquely qualified to share that information.

So, the expected launch date for my new ebook will be toward the end of March, beginning of April. Stay tuned!

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