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|  | | A DIY Guide to Home Building | | | So you want to build your own home. Have you considered everything you need to in order to undertake this challenge? If you feel you are ready to start home building then read the following eight tips to see if you really are or not. These tips will | | Living Off The Grid | | | In 2006 our family started contemplating the possibilities of living off the grid , producing our own electricity with Renewable Energy sources. Our electricity bill was about $200 a month and it just kept on growing. We knew there was a better way, | | Property - Buying Tips Part 3 | | | This section follows advice given in my previous piece "Property-Buying-Tips-Part-2" and assumes that you have done some preliminary searching and are attracted to a particular location or neighborhood. A very good, but often unconsidered source of | | 10 Steps To Your Dream Log Home | | | 1. Know Your Budget How much can you afford? How much do you want to spend? Or how much should you spend? If you are looking at the home as an investment for future turn-over, you may not want to build a log castle on a city lot. If this is your dre | | How To Choose A House Plan - Part 10 of 10 | | | I hear it every time. It's the question ten out of ten people ask me when I tell them I design custom homes: "Oh? What builders do you work with?" Anyone who's the least bit interested in building a new home is thinking about builders before they th | | How To Choose A House Plan - Part 9 of 10 | | | What if you really like a particular house plan, except for one little thing - you want to build the "mirror image" of it? How do you get a set of "reversed" plans? Most plan services will provide reversed plans for you but before you place the orde | | How To Choose A House Plan - Part 7 of 10 | | | If you haven't already, go back and read the previous article, "Don't Buy That Material List" and learn it's primary lesson: Only Local Costs Count . If you're trying to figure out how much it might cost to build a house from the plans you're consid | | How To Choose A House Plan - Part 8 of 10 | | | If you're not yet giving much thought to how much energy your new house is going to use, and how much it's going to waste, then it's time you started. It should be one of your top priorities - if for no other reason than your own pocketbook. Energy | | How To Choose A House Plan - Part 6 of 10 | | | Lots of house plan websites and plan books offer to prepare a "materials list" for you - and for about thirty bucks some will even calculate a "cost to build" the house plan you've chosen. But where does that cost information come from, and how usef |
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