Some of the Free Cabin Plans from Jay Osborne include a Site/Landscape Plan page. These are just sample plans. A real Site Plan is specific to where you will be building a house. The sample landscape plan gives you an idea of how to prepare …
Murphy Door has been selling hardware and kits to create secret room doors for a while now. The doors look like shelves or other furniture, but are actually doors that smoothly swing open to reveal a doorway. Their new Hidden Panel Murphy Doors can be …
How big does a porch need to be? There are two big factors. How much of the porch will be used up as walk space? And what do you plan to use the porch for? This porch isn’t small, but the ramp and steps on …
Midwest Products House Framing 3/4″ Scale Model Kits are used to teach construction using 3/4″ scale micro-cut wood cut to thousandths of an inch tolerances. The kits use the principles used in real world house framing. The included instruction booklets explain the purpose of each …
We plan to have a real front porch, but the project has cost more than we expected, so for now we just have the minimum steps and landings we need to get a CO. We can add a porch later. The temporary landings are so …
Taylor showed up Friday and dropped off a load of gravel. He says it’s to put in the foundation drains. Foundation drains or footing drains are put in just outside the foundation walls to drain water away so it won’t seep into the foundation. Ours …
One way we lowered the cost for our pre-fab cabin foundation is to use Thoroseal parging instead of a stucco finish on the block. Thoroseal is not actually Thoroseal anymore. It is now called MasterSeal 582. There are a lot of variations of MasterSeal. The …
It rained all night and water was flowing over the field behind our house. Cliff went out in the rain to see what was going on with our construction area. The field behind our house was flooded and the waterway behind our house was overflowing. …
You don’t have to live in a Victorian mansion or a castle to have a secret passage or a hidden room concealed behind a bookcase. You can buy a complete kit with everything you need to build a bookcase that opens like a door, or …
I have loved the idea of a hidden door to a secret room since I read Betsy Byers and Nancy Drew. How many gothic mysteries have a hidden room behind a wall that is revealed when you press the right place in the wall? That’s …
