Gift Ideas for Cottage
& Cabin Building
Wagner's House Framing is the clearest and cleanest presentation
of standard stud-frame house building available. It doesn't cover the exotic
stuff and it doesn't try turn you into a cabinet maker (as Fine Homebuilding
sometimes does). Just very clear text and graphics for the step-by-step assembly
of the sticks and stones.
A great gift for someone planning a major building project. |
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A great coffee table and idea book on what can be done with a small house or cabin. |
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Another Tauton Press book filled with handsome photos and very useful ideas about cottage home building. |
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This book is really about how to organize and manage your own home building project. You don't have to know how to pick up a hammer if you follow the checklists and procedures in this book and best of all you can end up saving 20% to 30% (or more) of the contracted building costs. | |||
Sarah Susanka is a very popular architect and teacher and has written several books on designing and building a smaller yet well designed home. This is the most useful of her books for the actual planning and building process. | |||
If you are interested in doing a house that has a period flavor, this is the book you go to find out how those classic old homes were built. | |||
Go to the HOME page of countryplans.com
(plans for small country homes)