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Don't Buy A House Plan - Until You Read This! |
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“Pre-drawn” house plans are a great way to save time and money when you’re ready to build a new home. The internet is a great way to shop for any kind of house plan - not just small house plans, but luxury house plans, too. A successful search depends on how much you know about what you're looking at online. But with the bewildering array of choices at online house plan sites and in published plan books it’s almost impossible to find, choose, and buy the right house plan for you and your family. Because buying a house plan isn’t like buying a car – you can’t see a house until after it’s built (and it’s too late to change your mind). Shop Intelligently You wouldn’t choose a car by looking at its “floor plan”, would you? Of course not! You’d check Consumer Reports, Kelley Blue Book, maybe check dealer prices online – then you’d go out and test drive the car; see how it feels, how it performs, find out if it’s all it’s cracked up to be. You’d do a lot of research before you plunk down your tens of thousands of dollars. But how much “research” do you do on the house plan you’ve chosen – before you commit to a process that’s going to cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars? How do you “test drive” a floor plan? Somewhere, Out There…You probably found Don’t Buy A House Plan Until You Read This because you entered the term “house plans” or something similar in an Internet search engine – if you used Google, you got almost 3 million results. Those aren’t all house plan vendors, of course, but most of the first several hundred results are ( I got tired of looking at them after that!). Maybe you wanted to buy a published plan book - a search of Barnes and Noble returns nearly 8,000 results; Amazon.com lists over 2,100. The magazine racks of both of those stores are filled with plan books. Each of those books has up to 500 different house plans…you do the math! One on-line house plan site boasts of a library of over 23,000 plans to search through; another lists nearly 15,000 – how can you possibly choose from amongst all those and find the perfect plan for you? You Need Professional Help It’s time I introduced myself. I’m Richard Taylor, AIA and I’m the President of Richard Taylor Architects, a Residential Architectural Studio in Dublin, Ohio. My firm and I have been designing custom homes, production homes, remodelings, room additions, and every other kind of family home project for over 20 years. We’ve designed big houses and little houses; cottages and estate homes; houses on a tight budget and houses with no budget. Tudor Revival homes, French Norman homes, Craftsman homes, Colonial homes, contemporary homes, vacation homes…and everything in between. We design about 75 new homes and remodeling projects every year. We’ve talked with hundreds and hundreds of people about how they use their homes. Not just what rooms they use, but what it is that truly makes a house a home; what features they need to make their home really useful; what they don’t need in a house; and what gives their house real character. So we know house design. But that’s not all – since we’re responsible for preparing the actual construction plans for our projects we know from long experience what the construction drawings must include. That’s not always the case with plan services that simply catalog other designer’s house plans. But I’m not here to sell you architectural services – that’s not why you found Don’t Buy A House Plan Until You Read This. You’re not a custom home client – you want to find a quality pre-drawn house plan that suites your lifestyle and you want it for a reasonable price. How I Can HelpOn this website I don’t sell house plans and I don’t recommend house plan services (although some advertise on our site). On this website I don’t design homes or build homes - I simply want you to be as knowledgeable as possible about buying a house plan so that you find just the right one with a minimum of effort. So I’m offering you my knowledge and experience; I’m giving you the opportunity to become a much better house plan buyer in a very short time (and maybe save a ton of time and money). The result of my efforts is Don’t Buy A House Plan Until You Read This, everything you need to know to start finding your perfect house plan in 10 short chapters:
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