Farmers Porch
When I designed our new house my wife only had a couple of must haves. The biggest wish on her list was a full length farmers porch. I was skeptical at first because I …

Colonial Home Design

Recently a friend of ours shared a photo he took of our home last fall. I wanted to share it here and point out some of the design features of our colonial home. …

New House Plan Considerations
Seeing that I have recently finished building our new home I thought I’d share some insights into the design of a new home. There are many new house plans available today and …

The Ranch Style home that we’re getting ready to build that I mentioned in the Total House Construction Series – Foundation To Finish has a rather large footprint for a ranch style home. The house …

Every day someone asks me what is the average square foot cost for new home construction. Or they ask can you build me a house for $150 a square foot. The answer is, it depends! …

Colonial Style Home With Farmer’s Porch

Lately I’ve had a few people ask me where I got the plans for our new home. The answer is simple, I designed the house myself (with lots of input …

I’ve been quite surprised at the number of folks finding my blog the last couple of weeks searching for information about building a farmers porch. So, in an effort to share some of the knowledge …

Building your dream home is very rewarding and yet extremely stressful, I know this because I just finished building a new home for my family. The following article is just a taste of some of …