Diligent Home Inspections:
Information and resources for homeowners and potential buyers
dealing with home inspections.
http://www.do-diligent.com
Code Check:
Online version of the popular field guide to the most common code
violations for residential construction.
http://www.codecheck.com/
Building at the Ledge:
Building a dream home, a journal by the owner. Discusses passive
solar design, alternative methods, design decisions, emotional
turmoil.
http://www.raftertales.com/
Building a Custom Home:
One family's monthly diary on the construction of their home,
complete with tips and ideas.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/7206/houselog.html
Adobe by the Rio Grande:
Watch the construction of a traditional adobe home being built near
Albuquerque, NM. Weekly updates by Adobe Home builder, David C.
Peterson.
http://www.nmbuilder.com
Bob Vila's Dotcom Dreamhome:
Web-driven home-building project. An experiment in internet-enabled,
residential construction explores the growing toolbox of
internet-based options for homebuilders and consumers.
http://www.dotcomdreamhome.com
How Stuff Works: Home Building:
Informative 7-part narrative, with figures and pictures, illustrates
how a house is built.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/house.htm
BuilderSelect:
Resource for finding a builder, financing, planning and designing a
new home.
http://www.builderselect.com
MSN HomeAdvisor: Working with a Contractor:
Step-by-step advice for evaluating contractors, creating a
remodelling budget, and working with a contractor and other workers
throughout the project.
http://homeadvisor.msn.com/improve/workingcontractor.asp
Idea Workshop Journal:
Collection of articles focusing on design issues in the home. Covers
designing a home office, basement foundation guidelines, planning
for accessibility, zoned heating and cooling systems, creating
architectural detail with drywall, and kitchen design.
http://www.uniteddesign.com/Idea_Wk_Jour.html
Permit Place:
Advice and assistance with preparing and obtaining building permits,
checklists, permit exemptions, and FAQs. [Some information specific
to United States.]
http://www.permitplace.com/
Andy's How To Homebuilding:
Tips and advice on designing, contracting and building your own
home.
http://andyshowto.com/
Village Post And Beam:
Photo journal which documents the 1998 construction of a post and
beam home centered around a "great room."
http://www.vaxxine.com/postandbeam/
Help For Unhappy Homeowners:
List of steps which can be taken by homeowners that are unhappy with
their builder.
http://www.geocities.com/sahm2three/Woodhaven.html
The Wilder Home:
Homeowners' account of the construction of their hurricane-proof
waterfront home in Gulf Shores, Alabama of Dac-Art man-made stone,
with glass tile mosaics.
http://www.ScrapbookScrapbook.com/DAC-ART
General Contracting Your Own Home:
Homeowner's account of a home construction project where the family
acted as general contractor. Includes an overview of the plan, a
journal, and photographs from foundation to finish.
http://server.elpaso.net/~mstuckel/
American Hardwood Species Guide:
Independent information source on North American hardwoods.
http://www.hardwoodinfo.com/species_guide/display_species.asp
Custom Homexpress:
Custom house building plans and online costing estimates. Design a
home and calculate costs and time line.
http://216.232.25.246/chex/index.asp
