| | |  | Wireless Technologies | Home » » » Designing Your Dream Home: Every Question to Ask, Every Detail to Consider, and Everything to Know Before You Build or Remodel | | | | | | | Description: | | You can have the home of your dreams! This comprehensive guide walks you through every decision and addresses all the details that most homeowners don’t even know to consider. In this step-by-step, room-by-room handbook, Susan Lang considers every aspect of your homebuilding or remodeling project, such as how to • Hire the right architect, interior designer, and builder • Design each room to perfectly fit your family’s lifestyle • Plan ahead so all your storage needs are met • Determine the perfect placement for light fixtures, switches, and electrical outlets • Save money by avoiding costly design revisions or building change orders You’ll find helpful forms and checklists that will keep you organized and assist you in clarifying your needs. And if you’re worried that building your dream home might turn into a nightmare, Designing Your Dream Home covers the most common mistakes that homeowners make and shows you how to avoid them. Susan Lang has thought of everything, so you won’t have to. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Susan Lang | | Paperback:
| 384 pages | | Publisher:
| Thomas Nelson | | Publication Date:
| April 15, 2008 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1401603521 | | Product Length:
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21 of 23 found the following review helpful:
 Must HaveApr 01, 2008
By Suzy
"Suzy"
Designing Your Dream Home is a must have for anyone thinking about or in the process of designing or remodeling a home. As I remodeled my kitchen this book kept me from making some very costly mistakes. The biggest mistake I avoided was having custom cabinets made that were not deep enough to hold my oversized dinner plates. Fortunately, I read the kitchen section of this book just in time to call the cabinet makers and have my cabinet dimensions changed to accomodate my plates. By reading this book you will avoid many inconveniences or daily annoyances that could have been avoided. You will not be disappointed!
19 of 21 found the following review helpful:
Perfection and Ease in BuildingApr 02, 2008
By Mark C. Houston
Susan Lang has written a masterpiece for anyone involved in building a new home. There exists in this book all the hidden jewels to create the perfect home with ease. Builders, architects, interior designers, contractors, subcontractors and the lay people who are building their home should have this book at their side at all times. It is complete, detailed yet easy to read with many charts, flow sheets, captured inserts of important points and much much more. Having completed a new home recently I would have loved to have a copy of this book to avoid some of the pitfalls inherent in the building process. I highly recommend that you buy this one and tell your friends about it.
Mark Houston MD
Nashville, Tennessee
11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
For any prospective home owner - especially owner-buildersApr 27, 2009
By L. R. Rozman
This book is an excellent collection of very helpful design advice and checklists to design or remodel every room of your home. It focuses on "what you need to know" and "what you need to consider" for every phase of design or remodeling. It is to-the-point, with few wasted words. The checklists help you quick identify where you need to learn or do more without plowing through a dozen books on any one particular subject. Many checklists by room, type of space and situation. Interview guides for builders, architects, designers. Helpful tips and gottchas to avoid. You will find it can help you plan, organize and clarify your thinking, plus organize the mountains of information you find when you plan to build or perform a large remodel.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Useful workbookDec 02, 2009
By Joy V. Smith
"Pagadan"
At first I thought the book was a little heavy on the blank forms and checklists, but she covers the basics, and there are a number of useful illustrations that teach you what you need to know about what a house is made up of. Plus a glossary, architect's symbols that help you decipher your house's blueprints, measurement basics (very helpful), mistakes to avoid, and more. The forms and checklists require work, but they can prevent you from making some serious mistakes. (I'd advise looking at more than one house book, btw. I had a number of them--most of which I have since culled, but I still have a few to refer to.) I would also advise you to keep this book for your records. I bought house record books--The Home Owner's Journal: What I Did & When I Did It and The Home Owner's Diary: What Was Done and When We Did It. (For two different homes we built; these books became very cluttered with additional work and notes.) You will find these records essential in the future.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Helpful but copying the forms a real pain!Mar 02, 2012
By Tracy L Wilson
I found the information in this book VERY helpful for managing all the different pieces asosciated with designing and building a home. I love the check lists but HATED the fact that I had to physically scan/photocopy the many forms, which isn't easy to do from a bound book. Very time consuming and they look crappy. Would have really loved if the author offered the forms for printing with the purchase of her book - or I would have paid extra just for the darn forms. The author does have some 'free forms' on her website but just a few and some I don't need.
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