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| Building
Resources and construction product information |
| Home
Building Search
Engine - a good place to find a product or research a topic
such as "bamboo flooring" or "landscape lighting" |
Home Expo
Directory |
| Home Remodeling Site
- Interesting well done building resource. The linked page has short
instructional videos. Only one of the many helpful links here. |
Remodeling
Site |
| Home Improvement website
directory. Much information about products for use in house construction |
Build.com |
| Building for Health
- An interesting site with healthy and alternative building products
such as bamboo stakes for strawbale construction. |
Building
for Health |
| Environmentally aware building tactics - Good checklist | Green Building Overview |
| A great set of links to
books on architecture, Building, Feng Shui, healthy
building, solar and sustainable building. |
Sustainable
building |
| Green building
information and a great library of specific product
information. High quality articles on all kinds of energy and
resource efficient products. |
Oikos
Green Library |
| A vast information
site with a good built-in search engine. Just what the name
implies - Do it Yourself. |
doityourself.com |
| Building links and articles
about various construction phases. Much info about Building
codes. |
Code
check links |
| B4UBUILD.COM does a good job
of reviewing Web sites concerned with building,
buying, and remodeling a home. |
B4UBuild
Links |
| Home Remodeling and
construction resource information. Advice and links from an
experienced Home Inspector. |
Sound
Home Resource Center |
| Owner Builder
Financing? Sometimes the local banker turns up his nose.
These folks are experienced with both the finance and building side of
the process. Use their on-line application form. |
Owner-builder
loans |
| Ask an expert
will answer your home repair questions in three areas: carpentry,
electrical and plumbing. |
Ask
an Expert |
| Building
Books & Videos: |
| Time-tested advice on buying
and building on country property. This classic book now on-line. Also
good links to other resources |
The
Back Road Home |
| Building with Awareness DVD -
a great video on the construction of a small alternative house in the
desert Southwest. See full reveiw and discussion here.
Much Info available nowhere else. |
Building
with Awareness |
| Real
Estate and Land Links: |
| Rural Property Bulletin -- The
National Marketplace for Rural Property Since 1980 |
Rural
Property |
| Creative Farm and Home Realty
- offering farms, acreages, hunting land, etc. in SE Iowa and NE
Missouri. Reasonable prices |
Creative
Farm |
| Rural land magazine with
listings for all states. Some pretty high priced. Many dealers ads. |
Land
Journal |
| Real estate
brokers by state. You can then click through to
brokers site and listings. |
Brokers
on-line |
| The RuralEstate Network. An
on-line Catalog of Rural Land, Farms, Country Homes, Rural
Businesses, and Recreational Real Estate |
RuralEstate
Network |
| Property in the San Luis
Valley area of Colorado. |
Colorado
Mountain Land |
| Many listings for Park,
Summit, & Grand counties (high country) |
Central
CO listings |
| Soil characteristics of your
land will determine much about what and where you can build. Not all
states have this information. Search results. |
Soil
Maps - State Search |
| Plans and
How-to-build Information: |
| Jim Self has plans for spiral
stairs and provides good support for customers. (Thanks to CountryPlans
member MikeT) |
Spirial
Stair Plans |
| Homeplaninfo.com is a fine
site for looking at home plans and home plan companies. They have short
reviews. |
Small
Home Plan Reviews |
| A good site with information
on log homes |
Log
Home Links |
| A good selection of barn plans
in many sizes and styles. |
Barn
Plans |
| This is a large database of older Agricultural
Extension plans. Note:
Most of these plans are decades out of date and will not meet current codes or
building practice. |
Ag Extension Plans |
| A site with good information
on building small cabins |
The
Minicabin site |
| A source of barn and garage plans. Old friend of mine. |
Homestead
Design |
| A large database of commercial
stock
plans. You can specify house size and width and narrow the search to
only those you are interested in. They show both the floorplan and
exterior sketch. Here is an example of a 22'
wide one-bedroom cottage. |
Global
House Plans |
| A large
commercial site with searchable
plans for larger cottage and country home plans |
1st-4-house-plans
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| Recycled
Building Materials: |
Second Use Building Materials
7953 2nd Ave, Seattle, WA 98108, 206-763-0436 |
Second
Use |
Duluth Timber Co.
125 Stewart St., Seattle, WA 98101, 206-448-1982 |
Duluth
Timber |
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