Until only recently, I would not have claimed to be the best choice for someone in our area to select as their custom house plan draftsman. But now experience and the results of that experience have slowly given me the confidence to truly believe that. It is something that has been very exciting to have [...]
There is a simple reason you don't see any attached ADU floor plan designs incorporated in new construction. Mainly it is too radical and therefore risky . When building a house on speculation, builders are not interested house designs that are too original original and so not been tested. Sticking to the tried and [...]
I always love to see a modern home design that I have drawn blueprints for after they have been completed and are being used for what they were intended to be used for and so recently Elaine and I decided to go on a drive and visit a projects in Central Washington. This modern home [...]
Give me a description of what you want to accomplish, if you can send some sketches or pictures of something that you want to end up with that will help. Scan any sketches you have made and create jpegs files or pdfs or if you have done your prelim plans in a home planning [...]
Recently I got a phone call from a guy planning to build a house in Electric City. He told me that he would be in town the following Friday and wanted to meet. He also told me that he was going to meet with two local drafting businesses who also produce Spokane house plans that [...]
I put up this video nearly four years ago while building the Della Dean and have been amazed at how much it has been watched considering I just did it on a lark. I gave my smart phone to my son Eli and had him shoot while I jabbered on about how I install crown [...]
This past summer Vince Martin found me and hired me to draft plans for a deck he wanted to build at his lake property. I had never seen anything quite like the double decker that he had in mind but if that was he wanted, then that was what he was going to get. Because [...]
Are Custom Home Plans a Better Choice than Wholesale House Plans? The short answer to the question about custom home plans versus wholesale plans is that custom home plans are the better choice when you want to have a new home built. The home we live in is not like the clothes we wear [...]
Once you have made the decision that you want to live in a home that no one else has lived in before, then you must decide between building a house from a set of stock house plans that have been used perhaps hundreds of times or from a set of house plans that have [...]
1180 sq.ft. rancher w/ drivethru garage I designed and built this home in 2001 and recently talked to the couple who had lived in it since. They told me they loved everything about the house and felt very lucky to have found it. Its most unique feature is a drivethru garage, but close to that [...]
