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.

A great coffee table and idea book on what can be done with a small house or cabin.

Another Tauton Press book filled with handsome photos and very useful ideas about cottage home building.

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.

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(plans for small country homes)