How to Save Money on Custom House Plans
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 been designed specifically for your new home. Plans you would buy from a house plan book or off the internet are stock house plans and there are thousands available. Since this is such a huge industry, I would assume that this route is one that many people choose to take. With so many variations of floor plans it seems quite possible to find just the right one, or at least one that needs only a few modifications. If that is the case for you, find a builder and go. But there are many that want to create something that is a unique expression of who they are as well as how they live. The problem is that while they know who they are and how they live, they don’t know much about designing a new home and drafting house plans. If you fit into this category then you need to get a set of house plans drawn by a professional before you and your builder can break ground. Here a few things to do to make that as economical and painless as possible. 1.) Buy or borrow as many plan books and magazines as possible. You probably already have a good idea of what you want, but have an open mind. Looking at these books will get the creative juices flowing and give you ideas. 2.) Surf the net looking for plans and pictures. Set up a “house ideas” file in the Favorites menu of [...]
The Sinclair
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 is the hidden room in the gable above the front bedroom. CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE LIST OF PLANS
Spokane House Plan Designers Blog
They say that all websites should have an attached blog with posts being added regularly and that is the primary reason for my Spokane House Plan Designers blog. Google is constantly sending out googlebots that run all through websites and they send favorable reports back to headquarters if the content is rich and if it is being added to and updated. It is more than I can comprehend when I think of the billions of blogs and websites throughout the worldwide web that Google makes it their business to analyze and then rank within a split second of a search query.
For me adding fresh content to my Spokane House Plan Designers blog will not be a big challenge since I have been a blogger for several years. Adding rich content is far more challenging . But I have always enjoyed the challenge of writing though I am not sure why. Certainly it has not been for the money. When you consider what I paid for a journalism degree at EWU and what I have made as a writer these last 30 years or so at writing, I am in the hole pretty much for all the tuition, gas and text book fees. If I had not stayed with my folks through college, I would be into it for the room and board as well.
That may be why I have always blogged and added content to my websites. If I can’t make a living at writing, perhaps I can save some money by not having some young webmaster take $200 or $300 a month from me to add content he knows nothing about to my website. $200 hundred saved is $200 earned as Ben Franklin would say.
If for some reason you are so inclined and want to see what content I have been adding to the web long before the Spokane House Plan Designers blog, then go to this website called The Spokane Valley Scoop. It is an old website but I can not get rid of it since about 300 views a month.
Be careful if click, you might get lost. Several times I have had people tell me they spent a couple of hours going from one page to the next. Which is the other main reason I like to blog and write.