Product Description

All aspiring builders have their own ideas when it comes to designing their dream home. This book offers the key to realising your dreams. Packed with advice, information and over 350 breathtaking and innovative plans, this fully revised and updated version of The Home Plans Book will help you to incorporate your own ideas to create a perfect home. Taken from a wide cross-section of the major companies within the self-build industry, The New Home Plans Book gathers together all the very best plans and divides them into fourteen main categories for easy reference. Above all, this book is a great source of ideas, so whether you are considering building a cottage or a bungalow, a house with a granny flat or a mansion on a sloping site, The New Home Plans Book seeks to guide you through the choices and help you to select the right plan for your lifestyle and site.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28414 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 430 pages

Review
'A quick flick through this book will have you reaching for the nearest envelope - on which to doodle plans for your dream house. It provdes step-by-step guidance and advice...with over 330 sample plans and information on the latest trends on design and technology.', Homes & Interiors Scot .'With more than 330 sample home plans, step-by-step guidance and information, it is an inspiring starting point for anyone planning a self-build', Country Homes & Interiors

About the Author
David Snell has been in the property and building industry for four decades. He first built his own home in 1971 and then met and worked with Murray Armor, the acknowledged expert within the self-build industry. Following Murray's death in 1998, David took over this mantle and has become well-known for his many articles on self-building and for his appearances at self-build shows, courses and exhibitions. He is a contributing editor on Homebuilding and Renovating magazine and the property expert for the Daily Telegraph's Saturday Property Clinic, 'Bricks and Mortar'. Most recently he has been the consultant on the TV programme 'Wrong House, Right House'.

Customer Reviews

BRIMMING WITH PLANS
Was hopeing this book would be full of plans that i could use to get planning permision, It has a huge number of plans with drawing of front elevation and then a plan of the internal layout with all the measurements of the rooms.
All the plans are copywight protected so you cant just blow them up and submit them, From these though you can draw your own plans using the ones in the book as a guide.
I bought this book and the older version of the same hopeing they would have different plans, they did, and it was well worth buying them, its a bargain me thinks, they haved saved me about £1300 in architechts fees for a few days reading and drawing.
Aparently its possible to buy the full plans "off the shelf" the details are in the book, i have no idea as to the price though.. all the best, dont think about it buy it , you wont be dissapointed. regards mark

First steps to self build
We all need a starting point on the route to self building and this was certainly an ideal way to begin. It contains guidelines on the self building process (the do's and dont's) and lots of detailed plans for all sorts of layouts, names and addresses of suppliers and many other points for reference. Once you've finished reading it, it will only inspire you to go out and build the house you've always wanted.