Building Your Custom Home For Dummies

ISBN-13: 9781119796794 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 400 str.

Kevin Daum; Janice Brewster; Peter Economy

Spis treści

Introduction 1Part 1: Getting Started with Custom-Home Building 5Chapter 1: The Custom-Home Process in a Nutshell 7Chapter 2: Preparing for the Process 21Chapter 3: The Land Grab: Selecting the Perfect Site 39Chapter 4: Defining Your House Style 61Part 2: Assembling Your Team 81Chapter 5: Architects and Design: Time Spent Is Money Saved 83Chapter 6: Engineers and City Folk: Approval Bureaucracy Made Somewhat Easy 109Chapter 7: All the King's Men: The Contractor and Their Cohorts 125Part 3: All You Need Is Dough: Financing Your Custom Home 141Chapter 8: Cash Is King: Borrowing to Your Advantage 143Chapter 9: Knowledge Is Power: What You Don't Know about Construction Loans Can Hurt You 157Chapter 10: Qualifying: It's the Bank's Way or the Highway 179Chapter 11: Show Me the Money: Flowing Cash through the Project 203Part 4: Hammers and Nails: Overseeing the Construction Process 219Chapter 12: Excavation and Foundation: Getting a Solid Start 221Chapter 13: Framing and Rough: So Much Goes behind Those Walls! 237Chapter 14: Heading for the Finish: The Devil's in the Details 261Part 5: All the After Stuff 287Chapter 15: Making a House a Home: Moving In, Furnishing, and Using Smart Tech 289Chapter 16: Taking It Outside: The Art of Landscaping and Hardscaping 297Chapter 17: Making Your Nest Egg Financially Sound 313Part 6: The Part of Tens 321Chapter 18: Ten Common Custom-Home Mistakes and How to Avoid 'Em 323Chapter 19: Ten Great Ways to Lower Construction Costs 329Chapter 20: Ten Common Stuck-in-the-Middle Problems and Their Fixes 337Chapter 21: Ten Ways to Build Sustainably 345Chapter 22: Ten Helpful Custom-Home Resources 353Index 359

O autorze

Kevin Daum is the award-winning author of six books, including Building Your Own Home For Dummies.Janice Brewster Weiser has written extensively on custom homes and is a former editor of Log Home Living magazine.Peter Economy is a Wall Street Journal best-selling business author and ghostwriter of more than 100 books.Anne Mary Ciminelli is an author, editor, and ghostwriter.