Adobe by the Rio Grande: Watch the construction of a traditional adobe home being built near Albuquerque, NM. Weekly updates by Adobe Home builder, David C. Peterson.
American Hardwood Species Guide: Independent information source on North American hardwoods.
Andy's How To Homebuilding: Tips and advice on designing, contracting and building your own home.
Building a Custom Home: One family's monthly diary on the construction of their home, complete with tips and ideas.
Building at the Ledge: Building a dream home, a journal by the owner. Discusses passive solar design, alternative methods, design decisions, emotional turmoil.
Code Check: Online version of the popular field guide to the most common code violations for residential construction.
Design Basics: Trends: Covers trends in home improvement and house buying.
Examples, Photos, and Ideas about Custom Home Libraries and Library Designs: An extensive resource filled with examples of custom home libraries and related links.
Family Room Project: One homeowner's journal of converting the garage into a family room--includes pictures.
General Contracting Your Own Home: Homeowner's account of a home construction project where the family acted as general contractor. Includes an overview of the plan, a journal, and photographs from foundation to finish.
Help For Unhappy Homeowners: List of steps which can be taken by homeowners that are unhappy with their builder.
Home Design and Home Improvement Considerations: Read through home building and home improvement tips, advice, examples and considerations for new and existing home owners as well as those in the process of building a new home.
How Did I Do It?: Information, pictures, and instructions for home improvement projects such finishing a basement, remodeling a bathroom, and installing central air.
Idea Workshop Journal: Collection of articles focusing on design issues in the home. Covers designing a home office, basement foundation guidelines, planning for accessibility, zoned heating and cooling systems, creating architectural detail with drywall, and kitchen design.
Mass Custom Home: Article by Masa Noguchi, Ph.D that discusses a new approach to the delivery of quality affordable homes of tomorrow.
Project: Pembee: An account of building a kit pole home on a block of bushland in Pemberton, Western Australia.
Rafter Layout with Log Timbers: Instructions and drawings explaining how to layout log rafters using a steel square.
Renovation Wizard: A calculator that offers average costs of numerous projects then shows their value when selling the home.
Septic System Information: Articles, FAQ, and diagrams that explain residential septic systems.
Split-Level Homes: Homeowner guide to various divided entry homes, including bi-level, split-level, and raised ranch. Concepts, interior design, additions, landscaping.
The Wilder Home: Homeowners' account of the construction of their hurricane-proof waterfront home in Gulf Shores, Alabama of Dac-Art man-made stone, with glass tile mosaics.
Village Post And Beam: Photo journal which documents the 1998 construction of a post and beam home centered around a "great room."