Custom Design Home - The Design Brief

Creating a Design Brief as a starting point for your custom designed home.

The Land Dictates the Plan - Practical Advice for the Owner/Builder

When a potential owner/builder has decided to move toward the process of building a new home, I regularly see a bit of confusion where the “cart before the horse” comes into play. What I mean by that is owner/builders try and concentrate on the design or plan idea before they have secured land or a lot. This article explains seven points to consider before you sit in front of a home plan designer.

Mythbusters: You Can Only Get a Custom Home by Building One

Building your own home is another American dream. But does it live up to it’s hype or is it another myth?

Underground House Floor Plan - The Hippie Experiment

Living underground in such earth-sheltered housing has its merits. Underground house floor plans got their start in the 1970s. It has only been within the past few years that interest in earth-sheltered housing is attracting some interest.

As Fuel Prices Go Up ENERGY STAR Improvements Pay Off

In 1995 the EPA turned their attention to buildings and defined ENERGY STAR standards for homes. An ENERGY STAR-certified home is 30 percent or more efficient than a conventional home. As energy prices climb, homeowners will save more on heating and cooling bills, decrease the amount of pollution released into the environment and place less of a strain on the energy infrastructure.

TOKI Explained - How Government Home Building & Real Estate Development Works

The Housing Administration of Turkey, more commonly referred to as TOKI is a great organization that helps low income individuals find the funding they need in order to buy a house. TOKI is in charge of many housing development projects in Turkey right now aimed at helping people who need it the most.

Cement Rendering And Building Plastering

The term 'rendering' is generally used to mean a cement plaster applied to the external face of a building wall, as distinct from 'plastering' which includes all types of plaster and is generally applied to external work when the plaster contains lime.

Building A New Home - 7 Reasons Why You Should Build A Home

Build a home is the advice that's on the lips of many adults. Young people think differently. They want to have fun. Here are 7 reasons why building a new home, your own home, makes good sense.

Green Building: From Geodesic Domes to Today's Demand for Energy Efficient Homes

Going green no longer means geodesic domes or strange-looking houses, owned by staunch environmentalists. Green has become more and more mainstream over the past several decades.

Steel Building Prices

Steel buildings are a new trend in the construction industry. Different parts of these buildings are manufactured in a factory. Steel is the raw material used to make the skeleton of the building. Advantages of steel buildings are low building cost, durability and less time consumption. Steel building prices depend on the price of steel at the given time. Horse riding field, residential and office buildings, barns, garages, aircraft hangers, warehouses and industrial buildings can be constructed out of steel.

London Property Hotspots: Where To Buy

London property trends constantly change; so where is the best place to buy today?

Bricks & Sticks: Staircases

Staircases offer style as well as functional appeal to a home. Many home owners and buyers don't always understand staircase options available. Knowing the parts of a staircase, configurations and basic code requirements can help you find the best staircase for your remodeling or new-construction project.

Working Over Builders For Your New Real Estate Purchase

As the real estate market swings away from sellers, buyers are in position to makes financially advantageous purchases. This is no more so the case than with builders.

Home Building - Interior Home Lighting

You will have to make many, many choices when it comes to picking out all the products you will need to finish the interior of your home. Home lighting is probably the most important element in home interior decorating, because it is instrumental in setting the mood of any room. It can affect performance, mood, morale, safety and security.

Advantages of Garages: Why You Would Want To Build Your Own Garage

Why go into the trouble of building your own garage? Four words: space, function, security, value.