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Saturday, 10 July 2010

Home Renovation Completed

Our neighbor's home has just been completed. He bought the property, had the old house torn down, and had a new house constructed. This all took much longer than he anticipated and also ended up being well above what he had budgeted. Although he is happy that his house is finished, he says he wishes he had taken a bit longer in the planning for the house. He made some fairly quick decisions about the house floor plans and once the house was built he realized he was not happy with some of his decisions. My parents think that the house looks like a 5-star hotel now, so of course that takes money to build.

I asked my neighbor if he had ever heard about the HDA website, HousePlansandMore.com. This site has house plans that you can buy online. The plans are done by experienced professionals and there are over ten thousand different home plans to choose from. You can browse through the plans on your computer, taking all the time you like to look at the different house floor plans. I think it is a good idea to look at a variety of floor plans before making any final decisions about your house plan. The benefit being that while you may not like all of the features of a particular house or plan there may be a few things you like and may want to add to your final plan. That is why this website is so useful. There are so many plans to look at, it is such a great source of ideas.

My neighbor had never heard of the website, and he agreed with me it would have been very helpful when he was having his house plan drawn up. I told him that if he had found house floor plans that he liked he could just order them from the website or request to have them customized if there were changes he would have liked. The website also has a cost estimator to evaluate approximately how much it would cost to have the home built in the area you live.

My neighbor said that it's not that he is not satisfied with his new house now, but he would have been a lot happier if it didn't cost as much and a few changes had been made in the design. With so many house floor plans to choose from at houseplansandmore I am sure my neighbour's new house would have been exactly to his liking had he spent some time at this website, and his new home may have even been within his budget.

For me, I just love browsing through the plans at HousePlansandMore.com. It is fun to look at the different house styles, the ways the rooms are arranged, and the features that are special to each house. I feel like I get to peak behind the doors of so many different houses and imagine living there, if just for a minute or two.

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