Open Directory - Home: Home Improvement: Design and Construction
See also: - Watch the construction of a traditional adobe home being built near Albuquerque, NM. Weekly updates by Adobe Home builder, David C. Peterson. - Independent information source on North American hardwoods. - Tips and advice on designing, contracting and building your own home. - One homeowner's journal of converting the garage into a family room--includes pictures. - List of steps which can be taken by homeowners that are unhappy with their builder. - Information, pictures, and instructions for home improvement projects such finishing a basement, remodeling a bathroom, and installing central air. - Collection of articles focusing on design issues in the home. Covers designing a home office, basement foundation guidelines, planning for accessibility, zoned heating and cooling systems, creating architectural detail with drywall, and kitchen design. - Article by Masa Noguchi, Ph.D that discusses a new approach to the delivery of quality affordable homes of tomorrow. - An account of building a kit pole home on a block of bushland in Pemberton, Western Australia. - Instructions and drawings explaining how to layout log rafters using a steel square. - A calculator that offers average costs of numerous projects then shows their value when selling the home. - Homeowner guide to various divided entry homes, including bi-level, split-level, and raised ranch. Concepts, interior design, additions, landscaping. - Chronicling the construction of an earth home in northeastern Oklahoma. - Roofer and writer offers tips and tricks about building a home while living in a two bedroom, 720 square foot trailer, while simultaneously raising their six kids. - Highlights the best in Masonry design - interior and exterior photos including information about the builder, the architect, the mason supplier and contractor. - Photo journal which documents the 1998 construction of a post and beam home centered around a "great room."
