Friday, May 28, 2010

0751 RS House - windows in, roof on

The rough carpentry is more or less done, the roof is on, the windows installed. Siding and cladding people are staging, and HVAC, plumbing, and electrical work inside is ready to begin.

This round of photos is all nuts and bolts - images of the exposed framing inside. If that kind of thing gets you going then there are more photos after the link below.

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Plans for the two story version of this house design are available through our catalog page. Remember, this design is offered at a much lower price than the rest of our plan collection. Check it out.


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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Plat House 3 mod - side porch goodness

We are working an interesting modification of a Plat House 3 plan that will include a screened side porch. This is an easy modification to the standard Plat House design in either the 2 or 3 bedroom configuration.

You simply extend the side overhang rafters to a new beam, and create your screened enclosure wall. This is a plan mod that we can do for you, or you can work through this easily with your builder. In fact one of our customers from Arkansas did this very thing to make a screened porch off the master bedroom of their home.

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Saturday, May 22, 2010

0751 RS House - windows

Windows and sliding doors have been installed, and a few more photos posted to the flickr set.

They are using Weathersheilds Visions line - probably the best vinyl window on the market. Beware of flimsy vinyl windows from unknown brands.

RS House on Flickr.

Plans for the two story version of this house design are available through our catalog page. Note, plans for this house design are a bargain. We offer house designs like this one which are not part of our other collectcions at a much lower price. Check it out.

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Sunday, May 16, 2010

Brand New Site - same ole' links

Readers of the blog may have notice a new look for the header here. Its all part of a total redesign of our Modern House Plan catalog.

Yes, its been long coming. Believe it or not our House Plan Catalog is nearly 8 years old. That's getting long in the tooth for a web site, the likes of which seem to churn a new look every few years. The truth is we've just been too busy to attend to this, and in the face of newer web sites vying for your attention it had gotten a little stodgy looking around here.

The new site maintains the structure of the old site. What that means is if you had bookmarked your favorite house, then your bookmark will still work - takes you right to the current page for that house design. We have A LOT of incoming links into our catalog, and until we can fund a more comprehensive re-invention of the website with the sophistication to maintain those current links, we elected to work within the structure already established.

So what's new? Well, at this point we pretty much know what information is important, and what we had that was fill. So we've trimmed the content somewhat, and moved you closer to the house plans. Now when you land at the site you immediately see our customers houses. A click into the Plans page gives you immediate access to all the designs, as well as links you into the useful lists of groups and collections. Once in the catalog you'll find bigger drawings of all the designs, and a nice slide show interface for viewing the images.

And perhaps most important is now we can tell our story about how we and our customers got here. Before the message was "Hey, this is new - you can do this!". But now customers have built over a dozen houses, and we don't have to convince you that this is for real. Now the story is "Hey, we've been doing this, a lot, and now so can you!"

So get over there and take in the new look.

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Monday, May 10, 2010

0751 RS House - house emerges

The work officially no longer looks like a pile of sticks. We definitely have a house now.

We have a handful of new photos posted to the flickr set that really shows the house taking shape.

Plans for the two story version of this house design are available through our catalog page. Note, plans for this house design are a bargain. We offer house designs like this one which are not part of our other collectcions at a much lower price. Check it out.

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