Building Your Dream House

by William P. Spence

"Provides the essentials for home building and remodeling from start to finish." Publishers Weekly . "Walks readers through the entire construction process...with photos and drawings; a gallery of 25... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402700865
• ISBN13: 9781402700866
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 463 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.1" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent reference book. Highly recommended.

I thought this book was absolutely fantastic with the loads of information it provided. It is also LOADED with COLOR pictures. What I liked about it is that it taught me how to go about figuring out a layout for my new home and provided me with measurements for everything (i.e. how much space you need to provide in certain areas, etc.). I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is planning on building their own home.

Excellent during planning/design stages

This book presents a lot of information that is helpful during the early planning/design stages. Its easy to read layout and good use of pictures/diagrams brings out points that were either missing or hidden in some other books I have used. I ended up using this book extensively, both for ideas and as a reference.Note that the title of the book is something of a misnomer, less than 1/3 the bookis on 'building'. However the other 2/3 more than compensates for this.