Tools
and Resources
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BOOKS (on Land, Home design &
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Books for Building
Our
best suggestions on books for country home building. Short reviews of
each. These are the ones you will want to own.
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Our Best web Resources
to other sites and on-line building resources.
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Best Web Resources
These
text links will help you find information on the web.
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Home
& Land Tools
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Property and building the Right House
FREE TOOLS
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Home
& Land Finding Tools
How to find
your own "best place" to live.
Outline
of Steps: 1. Find the area, region
or landscape that most energizes you. 2. Find a community within that
area that combines feelings of stimulation and connectedness.... more
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Text
links & Building Ideas
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Home Design
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- A Natural House is
a house with soul
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A $1400
Home Building Project
is a small retreat cottage I built with my two boys.
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3D Home Architect is inexpensive and easy to use home planning
program. See what you can do with it and explore the competition.
- Vintage farm plans
won't help much with house building, but it has plans for other useful
and
fun things.
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Ideas and articles
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Somewhere around your fifth
or sixth decade you find you are not as interested in the earlier
distractions
of physical life (usually sex, drugs, and rock n' roll). These essays
are my poor attempt to make sense out of a crazy world and specifically
how we got into our present pickle and what it might take to get us
out.
It's something to do when you can't dance...
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Personal Notes
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About the Designer - meet John Raabe
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The Whidbey House
- a solar saltbox home we built in 1983 on
an island in Puget Sound.
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Thoughts
about design - keeping a notebook of ideas. This is a PDF
copy of what I wrote up for new design clients when I first started out
in. Still makes sense, I think.
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