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Additions & Extensions, Building Home Additions
Books on Building Additions and Extensions to Homes and Residential Structures

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Additions
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Additions
Ideas for Increasing the Value and Comfort of a Home Through Well-Designed Additions
In this collection of articles originally published in Fine Homebuilding magazine, some of Americas best architects and builders prove that upgrading no longer means uprooting. All across the country homeowners are increasing the value and comfort of their homes by incorporating properly scaled and artfully detailed custom additions. Whether you're thinking about a substantial full-story addition or just adding the sun porch you've always wanted, add this book to your library before you draft the plans or hire a pro.
Additions Planner (Better Homes & Gardens)
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Additions Planner (Better Homes & Gardens)
Specifically Geared for the Beginning Stages of Planning an Addition
Breaks complex information on structural, system, and site concerns into doable strategies. Discusses options for materials as well as heating, ventilating, and air-conditioning needs. Dozens of real-life inspirational photographs and descriptive illustrations. Easy-to-use charts streamline and organize planning and make it a pleasant task. Prepares homeowners to work comfortably with a contractor to meet design and budget parameters.
Builder's Guide to Room Additions
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Builder's Guide to Room Additions
How to tackle problems unique to room additions, such as requirements for basement conversions, reinforcing ceiling joists for second-story conversions, handling problems in attic conversions, and what's required for footings, foundations and slabs. Explains how to design the best bathroom for the space. Even covers how to handle upgrades to electrical work in additions. Besides actual construction techniques, you'll find help in planning and designing and estimating room additions.
Building Additions - For Pros by Pros
RC-T070779
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Building Additions - For Pros By Pros
Field-tested techniques for adding on to your home
Adding onto a house presents builders and remodelers with tough challenges. Whether framing a roof, tying into an existing foundation, finishing out the room over a garage, or building -- on a deck that won’t rot out the sills -- the more expert advice you have up front, the better your work and the better your business will be. Builders and remodelers consistently turn to the experts at Fine Homebuilding magazine for the best professional-grade information before they start a job.
Building Your Own Home For Dummies
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Building Your Own Home For Dummies
Turn Your Dream of a Custom Home Into Reality

Keep construction on track with helpful checklists. Thinking about building your own home? This easy-to-follow guide shows you how to plan and build a beautiful home on any budget. From acquiring land to finding the best architect to overseeing the construction, you get lots of savvy tips on managing your new investment wisely — and staying sane during the process!
Built-Ins (Taunton's Build Like a Pro)
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Built-Ins - Build Like A Pro Series
Expert Advice, Tips and Shortcuts on Built-Ins to Provide More Storage Space
For anyone with basic woodworking skills up to the most skilled master craftsman, this book provides a unique perspective on built-ins - from strategic planning, to dealing with idiosyncratic spaces, to practical advice on a wide range of projects. As the latest addition to the successful Build Like A Pro series, Built-Ins gives you 192 pages of insights and guidance from longtime how-to author Bob Settich. You'll discover all the tools, tips and techniques you need to tackle everything from shelves and drawers to closets and entertainment centers.
Built-Ins and Storage - For Pros, By Pros
RC-T070780
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Built-Ins and Storage - For Pros, By Pros
Field-Tested Techniques For Adding Storage To Your Home
Storage never goes out of style. No matter how big the house, families always need more storage, which makes creating storage one of the magic words in the world of home building and remodeling. Built-in details that work well and look great start with the expert advice, tips, shortcuts, and techniques found in Taunton’s For Pros By Pros® books. Built-Ins and Storage gives you the information you need to select the right materials and complete each job to professional-level standards.
Built-In Furniture
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Built-In Furniture
A Gallery of Design Ideas for Built-In Furniture In Your Home
Here are some of the best examples of built-in furniture and cabinetry for nearly every room in the house. Jim Tolpin treats you to a room-by-room survey of unique design solutions and strategies that you can use to add functional and delightful built-ins to your home. Built-in furnishings offer many advantages over freestanding furniture: They are generally less expensive to build than stand-alone furniture of the same type and size. They give you great latitude in designing the look and function of your interior spaces -- you are not limited to designing around existing furniture pieces. You can also maximize the use of the most unusual spaces while creating an effective and aesthetically pleasing design solution.
Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Room Additions: Designing & Building
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Complete Guide To Room Additions by Black & Decker
Thorough Planning Guide To Building Additions and Managing Contractors
Building a major addition to your house can take over your life or drain your bank account if you aren’t fully prepared with top-notch information. The Complete Guide to Room Additions is both an insurance policy for dealing with contractors and a planning guide that arms homeowners with vital information about the remodeling process. But it also is much more than that: it’s a hardworking how-to manual filled with hundreds of photos that show you the hammer-and-nail details that go into these major projects. From garage conversions to kitchen bump-pout expansions, dormer additions and more, this book will be an indispensable tool for any project that adds new square footage to your home’s footprint.
Home Extensions: Planning, Managing and Completing Your Extension
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Home Extensions: Planning, Managing and Completing Your Extension
Step-By-Step Guide to Planning and Adding An Extension
Home Extensions is a step-by-step guide designed to assist anyone planning a new building project. It is filled with all the important points of good building practice that must be observed during construction works to ensure that the quality of the work is to an acceptable standard. Topics covered include initial plans and planning applications; finding contractors; buying materials; managing the different stages; completing the work; and tying up loose ends
Homebuilding Basics: Carpentry
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Homebuilding Basics: Carpentry
A Comprehensive Introduction to Basic Carpentry Techniques
Few of us were fortunate enough to have an experienced carpenter like Larry Haun to teach us the basics of the craft. With nearly 50 years of experience as a production framer and as a long-time teacher of carpentry and volunteer for Habitat for Humanity, Haun is a master of his trade. Homebuilding Basics: Carpentry offers newcomers to the trade, or anybody interested in acquiring the basic knowledge of carpentry for their own projects, Larry Haun's many years of knowledge and experience building accurately, efficiently, and safely.
How Not To Build an Addition
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How Not To Build an Addition
Humorous Guide to Avoiding the Common Pitfalls of Building Additions
So you have decided to build an addition. Have you gotten a loan and your permits? Have you purchased your materials? Before you even begin, you should read this hilarious guide, filled with humorous stories as well as helpful advice on what NOT to do when you undertake a major house renovation. If you've already built your addition or are in the midst of your project, you will be nodding your head and laughing at every page. Mr. Rayment delivers helpful hints on dealing with inspectors, recruiting neighbors to help and making the project fun. Chapters cover everything from electrical work, plumbing, finish carpentry and even digging your foundation. Any book can tell you how you should do it. W.J. Rayment will go one step further, pointing out the pitfalls and common problems—what NOT to do. Fun and informative.
New Rooms for Old Houses: Beautiful Additions for the Traditional Home
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New Rooms for Old Houses
Beautiful Additions for the Traditional Home

Published in conjunction with The National Trust for Historic Preservation, NEW ROOMS FOR OLD HOUSES by renowned architect Frank Shirley contains more than 300 full-color photos. It is a beautiful design guide and essential resource for anyone who loves classic American houses or is considering expanding an old home. Through words and pictures, Shirley shows how to enlarge a home without sacrificing the charm and character of the original structure.
 

 

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Additions
Additions

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Taunton’s For Pros by Pros: Building Additions
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New Built-Ins Idea Book - New Storage and Built-In Furniture Design Ideas for Any Room In The House
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Building Your Own Home For Dummies
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