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- A Homeowners Guide to Renovations and Additions - Guide to planning, financing and completing a remodeling project.
ahomeownersguide.com
- Adobe by the Rio Grande - Watch the construction of a traditional adobe home being built near Albuquerque, NM. Weekly updates by Adobe Home builder, David C. Peterson.
www.nmbuilder.com
- American Hardwood Species Guide - Independent information source on North American hardwoods.
www.hardwoodinfo.com/species_guide/display_species.asp
- Andy's How To Homebuilding - Tips and advice on designing, building, and acting as a general contractor for a home construction project.
andyshowto.com
- Bob Vila's Dotcom Dreamhome - Web-driven home-building project. An experiment in internet-enabled, residential construction explores the growing toolbox of internet-based options for homebuilders and consumers.
www.dotcomdreamhome.com
- BuilderSelect - Resource for finding a builder, financing, planning and designing a new home.
www.builderselect.com
- Building a Custom Home - One family's monthly diary on the construction of their home, complete with tips and ideas.
www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/7206/houselog.html
- Building at the Ledge - Building a dream home, a journal by the owner. Discusses passive solar design, alternative methods, design decisions, emotional turmoil.
www.raftertales.com
- Building Your Dream Home - Personal account of building a home. Includes step-by-step guide of issues to consider and how to research them.
thunder.prohosting.com/~emayo
- Code Check - Online version of the popular field guide to the most common code violations for residential construction.
www.codecheck.com
- Custom Homexpress - Custom house building plans and online costing estimates. Design a home and calculate costs and time line.
216.232.25.246/chex/index.asp
- Dear Builder - A e-magazine providing readers with home building, maintenance, and improvement information.
www.dearbuilder.com
- Diligent Home Inspections - Information and resources for homeowners and potential buyers dealing with home inspections.
www.do-diligent.com
- General Contracting Your Own Home - Homeowner's account of a home construction project where the family acted as general contractor. Includes an overview of the plan, a journal, and photographs from foundation to finish.
server.elpaso.net/~mstuckel
- Help For Unhappy Homeowners - List of steps which can be taken by homeowners that are unhappy with their builder.
www.geocities.com/sahm2three/Woodhaven.html
- Home Contracting by Andy - A free website with tips and advice on designing, contracting and building your own home.
andyshowto.com/contractors.htm
- How Stuff Works: Home Building - Informative 7-part narrative, with figures and pictures, illustrates how a house is built.
www.howstuffworks.com/house.htm
- Idea Workshop Journal - 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.
www.uniteddesign.com/Idea_Wk_Jour.html
- MSN HomeAdvisor: Working with a Contractor - Step-by-step advice for evaluating contractors, creating a remodelling budget, and working with a contractor and other workers throughout the project.
homeadvisor.msn.com/improve/workingcontractor.asp
- Permit Place - Advice and assistance with preparing and obtaining building permits, checklists, permit exemptions, and FAQs. [Some information specific to United States.]
www.permitplace.com
- Robin and Korstiaan are Building a New Home - Homeowners' photographic journal of the construction of a new home in Auckland, New Zealand.
geocities.com/kornrobin
- The Wall-Rue Driveway Retaining Wall Construction Project - Documents the construction of a 200 ft. long driveway retaining wall.
www.worldpassage.net/users/aastengo/Construction.shtml
- The Wilder Home - Homeowners' account of the construction of their hurricane-proof waterfront home in Gulf Shores, Alabama of Dac-Art man-made stone, with glass tile mosaics.
www.ScrapbookScrapbook.com/DAC-ART
- Village Post And Beam - Photo journal which documents the 1998 construction of a post and beam home centered around a "great room."
www.vaxxine.com/postandbeam
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