Home Plan Doctor

Description

Every new house begins with a dream and a home plan. Garnett, a home plan designer for 30 years, makes basic design principles accessible to buyers, explaining in clear language how to navigate every stage of the process, from selecting a plan to evaluating the suitability of the design.

"If home plans and blueprints look like hieroglyphics to you, this book is the Rosetta Stone." Kevin Ireton, editor, Fine Homebuilding "Clear and practical advice from a veteran designer. If you're building from a stock plan, this book could save you from a lot of mistakes." Kevin Ireton, editor, Fine Homebuilding "If you're building from a stock plan, read this book first. You'll get a better house, and you'll like likely save money too." Kevin Ireton, editor, Fine Homebuilding "Like a Consumer's Guide for electronics, this book gets 'under the hood' of what makes a space into a workable, functional, happy house, translating arcane architectural language into everyday language. Not just for house plans -- anyone who is looking to buy a home, and to shape the where and the way of how they live, needs to own this book." Melanie Taylor, Melanie Taylor Architecture & Gardens LLC Larry Garnett's Home Plan Doctor provides a powerful dose of preventative medicine for those who wish to avoid the headaches of homebuilding. This comfortably written, ultra-informative book is absolutely loaded with often-overlooked details that are essential to consider before you build. I guarantee you'll find yourself saying "I never would have thought of that" - but you'll be thankful Larry did. If home plans and blueprints look like hieroglyphics to you, this book is the Rosetta Stone. Kevin Ireton, editor, Fine Homebuilding Clear and practical advice from a veteran designer. If you re building from a stock plan, this book could save you from a lot of mistakes. Kevin Ireton, editor, Fine Homebuilding If you re building from a stock plan, read this book first. You ll get a better house, and you ll like likely save money too. Kevin Ireton, editor, Fine Homebuilding "Like a Consumer s Guide for electronics, this book gets under the hood of what makes a space into a workable, functional, happy house, translating arcane architectural language into everyday language. Not just for house plans -- anyone who is looking to buy a home, and to shape the where and the way of how they live, needs to own this book." Melanie Taylor, Melanie Taylor Architecture & Gardens LLC Larry Garnett s Home Plan Doctor provides a powerful dose of preventative medicine for those who wish to avoid the headaches of homebuilding. This comfortably written, ultra-informative book is absolutely loaded with often-overlooked details that are essential to consider before you build. I guarantee you ll find yourself saying I never would have thought of that but you ll be thankful Larry did. " If home plans and blueprints look like hieroglyphics to you, this book is the Rosetta Stone. Kevin Ireton, editor, Fine Homebuilding Clear and practical advice from a veteran designer. If you re building from a stock plan, this book could save you from a lot of mistakes. Kevin Ireton, editor, Fine Homebuilding If you re building from a stock plan, read this book first. You ll get a better house, and you ll like likely save money too. Kevin Ireton, editor, Fine Homebuilding "Like a Consumer s Guide for electronics, this book gets under the hood of what makes a space into a workable, functional, happy house, translating arcane architectural language into everyday language. Not just for house plans -- anyone who is looking to buy a home, and to shape the where and the way of how they live, needs to own this book." Melanie Taylor, Melanie Taylor Architecture & Gardens LLC Larry Garnett s "Home Plan Doctor" provides a powerful dose of preventative medicine for those who wish to avoid the headaches of homebuilding. This comfortably written, ultra-informative book is absolutely loaded with often-overlooked details that are essential to consider "before" you build. I guarantee you ll find yourself saying "I never would have thought of that" but you ll be thankful Larry did."