Building Plan Books

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.

These plans will help you build your new home on a budget, with ideas for designing and building simple, low-cost houses in a variety of architectural styles.

Buy reproductions of original Bungalow house plan catalogs, find bungalow plans online, and find resources for bungalow facts and photos.

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

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.

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.

There are no McMansions in these elegant, simple plans. Browse these books to find building plans and construction ideas for smaller homes.

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.

Extends your living space into your garden with these plans for attractive and practical decks.

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

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.

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.

Planning a new patio or walkway? Before you begin laying your brick or stone patio, check out these inexpensive how-to books.

Browse this page for building plans books for Spanish and Mediterranean Style homes. Or follow the links for information about Spanish and Mediterranean architecture.

Read online or download for free more than 300 house and barn designs published by William Radford in 1908. Over 1,200 illustrations.