5 tips to build your dream home Building your dream home is one of the most exciting and biggest projects of a lifetime! If you’re well-planned, this huge investment can be an enjoyable experience. Here are some great tips and ideas from Direct from the Designers House Plans to...
by Kathy Ziprik, Staff Writer Break out the hammer and nails, the paint brushes and gardening tools — it’s National Curb Appeal Month! August is a great time to step back and focus on your home’s curb appeal. Does your front door need to be painted? Your bushes trimmed...
Choosing to build your own home is a liberating and rewarding experience, because you have so much more control over what you get than when you search existing real estate because you’re selecting your own house plan. You need to be careful, though—with freedom comes great responsibility. Rather than...
Check out photographs of a recent new construction of House Plan 3245 from Direct from the Designers. This one-story house plan features a beautiful combination of cottage, country, craftsman and lodge styling – inside and out!. Inside is a flexible, open floor plan featuring a vaulted great room, gourmet...
Planning out your dream home is an exciting and exhaustive undertaking. When the possibilities are just about endless, it can seem impossible for the average consumer to decide on a coherent home design scheme. Your home should be a reflection of your style, so don’t worry about following every...
The time has come to decide on the overall look that you want in a house. Chances are, if you’re like most people, you already know what architectural styles you like and you just need to find the perfect one. Don’t be intimidated by there being so many choices...
People often talk about planning for a future. When you are designing a home you need to consider it even more so. Your home is one of the biggest investments you will ever make. You want it to last and in many cases outlive you. That’s where Universal Design...
October is Energy Awareness Month and if you are looking for a way to cut on your home’s energy consumption, Therma-Tru® suggests taking a look at your front door. Ideally your front door should be evaluated once a year to determine the door’s operation and energy-efficiency status. “Every component of...
There is a new trend in new house plans. With a changing economic climate, plus environmental concern the size of new American homes has started to decline. After being in an uphill trend for three decades the last five years have started a slow decline with the size of...
When I think of Colonial America, I think of a log cabin. I am not sure if it comes from reading Little House on the Prairie as a kid or when I used to play with my brother’s Lincoln Logs, but the image always stuck. Unfortunately I don’t seem...