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Historic Home and Outbuilding Designs.  Be inspired by dozens of renderings and floor plans of yesterday's homes, cottages, farmhouses, carriage houses, vintage garages, gate houses and farm outbuildings. If you like any one of the designs, you can read more about it, and find more designs like it by ordering an inexpensive, instant-download reprint of the original 19th century book where it was first published.

Merrymeeting Archives republishes rare out-of-print house plan books to help promote historic authenticity for builders, designers and renovators.

These plan pattern eBooks are copies of original house plan books from 1830s Europe, and 1850s to 1920s North America, from early Atlantic developments, throughout the country, to the California bungalows and painted ladies. The house designs and floor plans are the original architecture styles that include: Gothic Revival, Country Farmhouses, Italianate, Romanesque, Cottages, French Country, Folk, Stick-Style, Queen Anne Victorian, Shingle-style; Bungalow, Cape, California Mission, Adobe; Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival.

Visit their website to find the books that yesterday's homeowners used to plan their homes, cabins, farm houses, cottages and outbuildings: Merrymeeting Archives

 

 

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Check out these websites for hundreds of great designs, inexpensive blueprints, do-it-yourself design software and easy-to-assemble cabin and cottage building kits. 

American Country Homes  Find traditional country home plans in all styles. Have an architect in your area create a one-of-a-kind custom design. Have a soaring timber-frame barn home crafted for you or have a beautiful small home shipped right to your country acres or vacation property as an easy-to-assemble building kit.

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Design Your Own Home, Cabin or Cottage  Plan3D is a new online service that helps you create your own home, landscape or backyard building. View your work from any angle - inside and out. Use Plan3D to create a new kitchen or extension to your old home or to design a new garage or shed. Scan existing plans into Plan3D and take a virtual walk through in lifelike 3D. Everything is online and inexpensive, so you can get started today.

 

Have all plans reviewed by your building department or by an experienced building professional who knows local conditions, before you start to build. Plans may have to be modified by a local professional to suit your site's building code and weather requirements.