Architecture & Home Building: House Plans, Architect Resources

• Editor's Picks: Home Building Resources and Architectual Info
Home Building Information, Architects, How To Find an Architect,
Building Style Info, House Design, Architectural Resources

AIA Architect Finder - The American Institute of Architects helps you find architecture firms in your area.

Architectural Glossary - List of terms associated with architecture for the architecture enthusiast or the novice do-it-yourselfer.

Architectural Timeline 1675 – 1960 - Timeline offers a quick overview of American architecture home styles from colonial times to the 1960s. Detailed information about each period or style is also included.

Architectural Trim & Details Glossary - Architectural styles of trim, details, and form are listed by style going back to Neolithic times. Learn what a corbel, capital, or pilaster is.

Best Free Online Virtual Room Programs & Tools - Links to the ten best virtual decorating and remodeling tools online are listed along with a summary explaining what each of these fun, free tools can do. Editor's note: Very cool!

Building Styles - Learn about all the different architectural building styles. University of Washington building style digital collection includes building styles from A to Z, with an extensive data base that lists buildings and photos in each style.

Design a Room - Armstrong features a fun and handy virtual room remodeling tool to help you visual flooring, counter tops, and paint colors for your renovation project.

Design Your Dream House - Budding home designers and do-it-yourself decorators can create realistic homes and furnish them with virtual furniture, appliances, and decorative accessories using a free online tool.

Glossary of Architectural Terms - The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has compiled a list of architectural terms along with definitions, conveniently featured all on one page.

Glossary of Architecture - Building industry terms and architectural terminology are explained from A to Z, all on one convenient page.

Great Buildings - Photos show the greatest buildings ever built listed by architectural style, time periods, and types of buildings.

Home Style Guide - Basic information with picture dictionary lists historical home building styles in the United States and North America.

How to Find an Architect - Tips and advice to help you find the right architect for your building project.

Personal Paint Color Viewer - Benjamin Moore Paints offers a really fun tool to help you visualize new paint colors in any room of your home. Use your own photo, or find a room that's close enough in their photo archive and have fun with all the B. Moore paint colors.

Editor's note: This is an awesome tool, but paint colors do seem to look a tad lighter in the simulations on your back-lit computer screen than they do in real life situations. Always try out a couple of shades in the little paint sample bottles before committing to gallons of paint. This editor now has the most colorful collection of (formerly brown) grocery bags ever seen!

Questions to Ask Your Architect - The American Institute of Architects provides a list of questions you should ask when meeting with a prospective architect about experience, your project, design, green design, and fees.

Ten Tips to Find a Good Architect - Tips, advice, and information to help you pick the best architect for your particular renovation or building project.

Virtual Room Designer - With the Lowe's virtual room designer tool, you can reinvent each room in your house, from top to bottom, online. Design details of many rooms in your house from scratch, or start with a handy template.

• Architectural Resources, Home Builders, Floor Plans, Log Homes,
New Home Ideas, House Plans, Blueprints, Architects

Creative Drafting Service - Creative Cad Drafting Service is a great choice for CAD drafting services. They are experienced in all phases of the architectural, engineering, building and construction industry and provide a full range of cad drafting services including building plans, construction documents, as-built drawings, mechanical, electrical, plumbing drawings, and v.

Get Your Dream Home - Thousand of house floor plans from over 70 architects top home floor plan designers.

House Floor Plans - Architectural Designs features house plans from dozens of prominent architects. Free modification estimates on all plans. Buy your house plan from someone you can trust--we've been fulfilling dreams for over 30 years.

House Plans, Home Floor Plans: DistinctiveHousePlans.com - Search through our huge database of award winning house plans, floor plans and home plans. We have a plan to meet your needs.

Jacksonville Home Builders - Legacy Builders provides home plans, designs, remodels and additions for Florida homes.

Log Homes - Avalon Log Homes is your log homes connection. Avalon Log Homes offers a full line of services for luxury log homes, custom log homes, milled log cabins, kits, handcrafted log homes, and timber frame homes all over the USA and Canada.

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Architectural Information, House Plans, Home Building Resources
Last Updated January 1, 2012

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