If you’re looking for a home plan, there are several websites dedicated to giving you access to thousands of options. Below is a list of some top house design resources offering tons of information so that you can discover a plan that fits your family’s needs and budget. These resources provide cost estimates for construction as well as information about home builders that can build your new home.
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Eplans.com is a website dedicated to providing consumers with a large selection of floor plans. The site offers a cost to build estimator, resource library, instructional videos and many more features that will help consumers make an informed decision about their home’s design.
The site’s basic search allows you to locate plans by house style, room requirements, bedroom requirements, kitchen requirements, special features (fireplace, French doors, patio, etc.), and foundation types; there is also an advanced search option. You can use their builder directory to search floor plans offered by home builders throughout the United States. Eplans.com has a section for green friendly designs that promote environmentally conscious home construction and energy consumption.
Listings are displayed with information such as beds, baths, and square footage, and a rendering of the completed home. Eplans.com currently has over 23,000 floor plans in their database, and if you use their modification service, you can customize any house to meet your specific wants and needs.
FreeGreen.com is a portal that offers consumers a large selection of free green floor plans and an open source directory of plans created by different designers; the open source directory of energy efficient plans allows designers to “name their price”. FreeGreen.com also offers information about home builders using green plans to construct homes and a section of home products that conserve energy and water, and help support an environmentally friendly home.
FreeGreen.com allows consumers to quickly discover house plans that meet their needs by providing a search engine that narrows searches based on stories, bedrooms, bathrooms, square feet, depth, popular features (cheap square feet, oversized closets, etc), green features and house styles. Listings are displayed with home renderings, a description of each room, a link to building cost estimates, and information about the home’s energy consumption.
CoolHousePlans.com is a floor plan resource that offers information about home plans, multiplexes, shed plans and garage plans. CoolHousePlans.com also offers a long list of green building resources and home plans for consumers that are looking to save on energy costs and limit their home’s carbon footprint.
The search form allows visitors to search based on floors, square footage, bathrooms, bedrooms, home type, garage size, exterior wall type, location of master bedroom, foundation type, and the home’s width and depth. Listings display a rendering of the completed home, the home’s specs, and links to detailed information about the home such as building and blueprint costs. CoolHousePlans.com has over 29,000 floor plans in their database.
DreamGreenHomes.com is a portal that offers information about green floor plans for houses, dog homes, studios, garages, greenhouses, and cold storages. Thirteen designers dedicated to providing attractive home designs with environmentally friendly features design plans on DreamGreenHomes.com.
Visitors of DreamGreenHomes.com can search for house plans by styles, materials used, and functions. The listings display a rendering of the completed home, a link to view an image of the plan, and quick stats about the home’s specs i.e. materials used, beds, baths, etc. The site also offers information about plan modifications and mentions that the architects and designers are almost always willing to modify a design to meet a home buyer’s needs.
TheHouseDesigners.com offers consumers information about thousands of different floor plans. The site has a large collection of home plans that meet the needs of any family. Plans are ordered directly from the designers and architects, which increases buyer satisfaction and value. There are green and Energy Star plans available and home buyers can search for homes built by home builders across the United States.
The search feature on TheHouseDesigners.com allows visitors to search by collection, style, bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage, and stories. Listings are displayed with a home picture or rendering, 3D tour, building cost estimates, a description of the plan, and the home’s specs. Homebuyers can choose to modify any house and the blueprints are shipped free.
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See Also:
Information about floor plans on Wikipedia
Google Sketchup – Design your own floor plan for free
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I just happened on your site this morning. I’m a Realtor in Washington State. Thanks for creating this list. In reviewing them they look to be excellent sources of information. I’ll refer clients to them.
Rich Johnson
Rich, thanks for stopping by
Good list Jayson. I have people looking for home plans all the time and I never really knew where to point them. Thanks for putting this list together.
No problem Mike, thanks for stopping by again!
When looking for house plans, try to find ones that address all the necessary information you need for your jurisdiction. Otherwise your going to have hire an architect to fill in the blanks.