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Design and Planning on Fine Homebuilding

Building Affordable Houses
By including his subcontractors in the design process and watching every penny, a Midwestern builder creates attractive starter homes for $45 per sq. ft.
Choosing a Framing Nailer
Whether you prefer coil nailers or stick nailers, it's a buyer's market. Two seasoned builders sort through 30 models and find new favorites.
At Home in the Forest
Soaring cathedral ceilings and a four-step footprint enable a narrow cottage to fit comfortably between a golf course and a steep ravine.
An Addition Foundation
Learn techniques for grafting the right foundation onto a house that's neither square nor level.
Wiring Your House for Today and Tomorrow
Structured wiring can link the phones, computers and TVs in your house right now, and who knows what else in the future.
A Quiet House on a Noisy Street
22,000 cars a day presented a design challenge that creativity and zoning variances surmounted
Stapling faced insulation to wall studs
Q: Back when I was a builder, I always installed foil-faced or kraft-faced fiberglass-batt insulation by stapling the face flange to the sides of the stud. Side stapling also is…
Pneumatic-assist tub placement
On a recent job, we had to place a 400-lb. cast-iron tub into a tiled tub surround on the second floor of a house. To lessen the chance of crushed…
Tool Review: Color-Coded Pneumatic Nails
Trackers make it easy to verify nail size
Creating The Not So Big House: Affordable Comfort
A Massachusetts house designed by Ross Chapin is a good example of how to create a sense of spaciousness in a small home.

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