Custom built homes are one of life’s little luxuries and with the slow down of the market, builders will do just about anything to get your business nowadays. The percentage of people that are choosing to build instead of buy is growing and with that comes the demand for quality architecture. But drawings are expensive and unless you know exactly what you want the first time you meet with an architect or draftsman it can be extremely expensive to continually make changes to a plan. 

Online home plans makes finding the perfect home extremely easy and and if you’ve ever built a home before you know how frustrating it can be to look through hundreds of floor plans trying to decide what will be functional and yet affordable for your family. Eplans is one of a handful of online home plan companies that offers over 10,000 online home plans that you can search by style, square footage, and number of bedrooms.

Most of these sites offer designer collections of house plans, home plans, floor plans and garage plans. We checked it out and found that a 4000 square foot home plan with 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms is about $1500.00. In this price you receive one blueprint copy of the plan. If you want extra copies of plumbing, and electrical layouts there are minor costs added.  This is a huge savings from having an architect or certified draftsman draw up your plans.

There is one thing to keep in mind when using these online house plans, and that is making sure that you have a real sense of spatial awareness. Rooms on a blueprint may appear bigger than the actual room is going to be, so walk through a couple of model homes just to get a feel for the size you want and then go to the online home planning websites and double-check your rooms square footage and dimensions.

If you’re looking to build this is a great way to go and now is a good time as mentioned above. The sooner you find that perfect plan, the sooner you can start construction!