About the book
How to Design Your
Dream Home In 25 Years or Less!
BUYING PROPERTY? BUILDING A HOME? READ THIS FIRST!
This engaging and practical guide will teach you How To Design Your Dream Home (In 25 Years or Less)! Learn how to save time and money, avoid common mistakes, choose the best location, plan your space and layout efficiently, design custom storage and organization, and so much more! Reduce regrets at the project’s end and make it easier on you, your builder/contractor, and your architect (if you use one).
Language : English
Paperback : 172 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-1491853382
Item Weight : 9.1 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 0.43 x 9 inches
“Replete with gems of practical wisdom…conversational style makes for easy reading…with an eye to optimize costs. Plenty of practical and useful knowledge to be gleaned…much thoughtfulness and detailing went into every chapter.”
PSM – Mumbai, India
“Not a dry, ‘how-to’ book! Humorous & enthusiastic with a logical sequence of progression in the design/build process. …well-thought-out and well-researched information, painting clear pictures of what she was talking about.
MRR, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Design Your Dream Home in 25 Years or Less
About the
author jan jones
evans
Jan Evans and her husband are retired and living in their dream home on their favorite lake in the Ozark Mountains. They bought their lake lot in 1986, and Mrs. Evans did spend nearly 25 years designing their dream home.
She is the daughter of a Realtor/builder/developer and has been drawing floor plans, just for fun, for 50 years. She started in Interior Design and drafting in college but later found her true “calling” in special education.
reader's reaction
“Offers amateur designers cheerful, intimate opinions on creating an ideal living space…endearing enthusiasm…very useful…informal [and] occasionally amusing work.”
Kirkus/Indie Reviews
“For anyone who wants to undertake designing a home from the ground up, Jan Jones Evans’s book should be a valuable resource. Evans’s observations of her own design challenges are particularly helpful. [Her] honesty, along with her ability to talk about design and building details through an ordinary consumer’s eyes, makes for a book that is both engaging and instructional. …offers the kind of helpful insight based on experience that should make planning and designing a home a much less time-consuming and arduous process.”
Barry Silverstein Forward/Clarion Review
“Replete with gems of practical wisdom…conversational style makes for easy reading…with an eye to optimize costs. Plenty of practical and useful knowledge to be gleaned…much thoughtfulness and detailing went into every chapter.”
PSM – Mumbai, India
“I am Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser with over 40 years of experience in what makes a home distinctive, comfortable and valuable. …I can honestly state, without reservation, that I don’t recall ever seeing any other home with a more functional feel to its flow than Jan Evans’ dream home. I strongly recommend her book to anyone contemplating building their own home.”
RWJ – Denver
“Not a dry, ‘how-to’ book! Humorous & enthusiastic with a logical sequence of progression in the design/build process. …well-thought-out and well-researched information, painting clear pictures of what she was talking about. It addressed aesthetics as well as practical suggestions.
MRR, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
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