Download or read book How to Design Your Dream Home in 25 Years or Less! written by Jan Jones Evans and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 projects end and make it easier on you, your builder/contractor, and your architect (if you use one). Offers amateur designers cheerful, intimate opinions on creating an ideal living space. endearing enthusiasmvery usefulinformal [and] occasionally amusing work. Kirkus/Indie Reviews For anyone who wants to undertake designing a home from the ground up, Jan Jones Evanss book should be a valuable resource. Evanss 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 consumers 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 wisdomconversational style makes for easy readingwith an eye to optimize costs. Plenty of practical and useful knowledge to be gleanedmuch thoughtfulness and detailing went into every chapter. PSM Mumbai, India I am a 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 dont 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