Encyclopedia of Home Designs: 500 House Plans from 1,000 to 6,300 Square Feet [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2003

A perennial best seller, this new edition features the most popular portfolios and brand-new plans from the nation's top designers. This encyclopedic showcase has been completely revised and updated to reflect the new century in style and design.

Rugged mountain retreats to Eurpoean estates, you'll find the perfect size and style home to fit you and your family's needs.

Begin your tour with Best-Selling Homes, a full-color chapter featuring some of the most beautiful homes in the nation.

Complete blueprints are available for every home and feature easy-to-read floor plans and additional planning products to give your home that personal touch.

Whether your taste runs to French cottages or Craftsman bungalows, Encyclopedia of Home Designs, Third Edition is sure to have the home you've been looking for.

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Home Planners; 3rd edition (February 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1931131120
• ISBN-13: 978-1931131124
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #691,615 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Encyclopedia of Home Designs by Home Planners, October 10, 2003

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Joseph S. Maresca "Dr. Joseph S. Maresca CPA,... (Bronxville, New York USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Encyclopedia of Home Designs: 500 House Plans from 1,000 to 6,300 Square Feet (Paperback)

This work is excellent if you are planning to build a home
and specific sets of blueprints are required. The authors
provide every kind of schematic for comparative home designs
in America and in Europe. This book could probably save you thousands of dollars in architectural fees if you know how
to use and apply it.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not quite an encyclopedia but its getting close., October 28, 2005

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Chris Sellick (South Australia,Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Encyclopedia of Home Designs: 500 House Plans from 1,000 to 6,300 Square Feet (Paperback)

A huge book full of various floor plans for most budgets and tastes.There are many floorplans here.I'm sure you will find something you like.A great book.

If you are buying books on floorplans then add this one to your collection.Its good value for the price.I also recommend this book too:

1)"The ultimate book of home plans",By Creative homeowner.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book with many designs but lacking, February 17, 2007

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Boraxo "Boraxo" (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Encyclopedia of Home Designs: 500 House Plans from 1,000 to 6,300 Square Feet (Paperback)

We are planning to build our own home to replace a teardown on a suburban lot. Since I have zero experience in homebuilding, I bought half a dozen books through Amazon. This is one of the more useful ones.

You will find an endless number of home designs and floorplans, much better than some of the more expensive books written by architects. There are plans for many types of "normal" homes - the kind that most of us want AND more importantly can actually afford to build. It would be nice to have more info, i.e. color photos for each of the actual homes, particularly interiors, but probably not enough space in a book of 500 plans (one per page) that sells this cheap.

My main critique is the lack of home designs that appear to be appropriate for California suburbs - most of the designs look best suited for east coast or midwest, or maybe huge tracts with a lot of space. Also too many designs with garages that face the side of the house - many people don't have lots that can accomodate a driveway that big. Also many of the windows are funky and the designs should include more back door/deck/pool options (doesn't everyone want a pool or at least a nice yard?) rather than the heavy emphasis on front yards design (again - many people don't have that kind of space).

But overall I think that amateurs like myself who are looking for design ideas for building a home won't be disappointed. And the book provides easy instructions for ordering blueprints - with very reasonable prices.