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Best House Plan Collections
These house plan collections include illustrations for popular house styles along with floor plans and elevation drawings. Find a house plan you like, and you can order the blueprints.

Adobe House Plans and Building Guides
Beautiful and practical, today's adobe homes combine ancient techniques with modern technologies. To build your own, start with these helpful how-to guides. You'll find floor plans, construction information, and more.

Building Plans for One-Story Homes
A one-story home can be built to accomodate any need and taste, and is available in just about any style. These plans will help you build the single-level home of your dreams.

Building Plans for Small Houses
Small doesn't have to mean cramped! These books and building plans offer home designs which pack a lot of living into small spaces.

Cottage Building Plans
From a hideaway retreat in the mountains to a seaside villa, nothing says peace, tranquility and relaxation better than a cottage. Find plans for all types of cottages in these collections.

Deck Design and Plans
Hit the deck with these handy how-to building guides. Packed with photos, drawings, and construction plans, they'll help you design an outdoor deck that extends your living space into your garden and also harmonizes with the architecture of your home.

French Inspired House Plans
Find new and reproduction house plans based on French ideas: Normandy, Provancial, and more.

Historic Bungalow Plans: Reproduction House Plan Catalogs
Based on a simple homes from India, the practical bungalow style took America by storm in the early 1900s. The style spread quickly via mail order house plans. Today, you can purchase reproductions of the original catalogs. Listed here are a few of the best, plus books on the history of bungalow architecture and building plans for contemporary bungalows.

Log Home Plans
Packed with floor plans, diagrams, and step-by-step instructions, these titles give the technical information you'll need to design and construct a log home that expresses your style and personality -- without using a ready-to-assemble mail order kit.

Low-cost House Plans
Who says you have to sacrifice quality to be frugal? These great house designs will help you get the best of both worlds -- beauty and practicality, without breaking the budget.

Luxury House Plans
Everyone needs a dream, and these building plans will let you indulge your wildest fantasies. You'll find large estates with superb architectural detailing, separate guest suites, servants' quarters, home entertainment rooms, pool houses, detached garages, and more.

Patio Plans and Building Guides
Don't settle for boring concrete. These helpful books have photos and plans for beautiful brick and masonry patios, walkways, and more.

Spanish and Mediterranean Styles and Plans
Modern homes and historic styles based on Spanish and Mediterranean ideas.

Victorian Planbooks
During Victorian times, many builders found ideas, inspiration and instruction from architectural planbooks published by noted designers. Here are our top picks for planbooks from the Victorian era.