This unique coloring book illustrates the numerous stages involved in building a house from the ground up. From drafting the plans and digging the foundation to framing the walls and developing interior and exterior details, kids will learn how surveyors, machinery operators, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, and others work together to construct a house.

In How to Build a House, author and professional engineer George Michael Rentz, PE is informative and entertaining while taking the mystery out of residential construction. With more than thirty-five years in the construction industry, Rentz provides an overview of the information necessary when you are considering buying or building a new home. From the basics of site selection and design to cost estimates and construction, How to Build a House describes all of the steps integral to residential construction from the ground up. Through personal anecdotes, Rentz shows how developing good plans and selecting the right contractor are key to enjoying the process of watching your new home being constructed. How to Build a House provides insight into the construction process in order to avoid the struggles and hassles often associated with home building.

"Slip on your overalls, pop on your hard hat and jump in the digger - let's build a house! First the floor, and then the walls, then the roof. Let's build it tall. You and me - we'll build it all!" -- Back cover.

HARPER’S DAD IS getting a divorce from her beloved stepmother, Jane. Even worse, Harper has lost her stepsister, Tess; the divorce divides them. Harper decides to escape by joining a volunteer program to build a house for a family in Tennessee who lost their home in a tornado. Not that she knows a thing about construction. Soon she’s living in a funky motel and working long days in blazing heat with a group of kids from all over the country. At the site, she works alongside Teddy, the son of the family for whom they are building the house. Their partnership turns into a summer romance, complete with power tools. Learning to trust and love Teddy isn’t easy for Harper, but it’s the first step toward finding her way back home.

How to Build a House in Minecraft is just what it sounds like, a guide to building a house in Minecraft! It can be frustrating for little ones to figure out how to build something, even something as simple as a house. So our book has instructions that are simple, kid-safe, and leave plenty of room for creativity. Kids will learn to build a simple house, a crenelated roof, a slanted roof, and get some ideas for decorating the inside! They'll also get some ideas for decorating the inside. Then they can have a home base to explore or play from! Do you have a young child who is getting into Minecraft? Are they frustrated by the other guides that are either too vague or too difficult to follow? They’re not quite patient enough to build a realistic space shuttle or a giant castle and you don’t want them watching YouTube for inspiration. That was me and my son. So I started this series for families like us. The Basic Minecraft for Kids series provides easy-to-read, kid-safe guides to building the simple things kids like. We provide a simple build, a few variations and ideas, and then let them get creative! These guides are so clear and easy, even parents can understand them!

Nearly eight hundred drawing enhance step-by-step instructions in every aspect and phase of planning and constructing one's own home.

This book is written for the prospective house owner and designed to give complete and authoritative information on the various aspects of house design and construction. Charles E. White, of the Chicago architectural firm White and Christie, addresses factors from site selection to interior decoration, and examines houses for the city, town, suburb, and country. Intended for the layman, it is profusely illustrated, and should be of great utility to anyone who desires to know more about this important subject.

Table of Contents Introduction Required Tools and Construction Materials Logisticsof Building Small Wooden Houses How to optimize your employees’ performance Necessary Finishing Touches Conclusion Appendix 24 x 32 Small house Plans 20 x 30 Small House Plans 16 x 20 Bunkhouse Plans Building Process Pictures for our bunkhouse Author Bio Publisher Introduction It is everyone’s dream to own a home in a quiet, secluded and serene environment. Owning such a home offers total privacy and a therapeutic experience that can’t be found elsewhere. Regardless of whether it is the primary or secondary residence, it offers the perfect getaway during weekends and holidays. A simple and comfortable wooden house is what you need in order to have a feeling of serenity and privacy. If you want to bond with your spouse, children or friends, there is no better way to do it than spend sometime with them around a simple wooden house in a secluded environment. On top of bonding with family and friends, a wooden house provides the perfect resting place after a successful hunting trip. Wooden houses can be built anywhere on earth regardless of the natural phenomena experienced there. For instance, you can build the house in areas prone to earthquakes and rest assured that nobody will be severely injured or die in case of an earthquake. Even if the house is brought to the ground by an earthquake, there is minimal probability of anybody being injured with wooden walls and roof. Repairing wooden houses is also quite cheap when compared to repair of houses built with concrete, blocks, bricksor any other construction material. This means that you’ll end up saving money by simply deciding to build a wooden house. It is also quite easy to alter the design of a wooden house than houses built using other materials. If you want special features in a home, all you need to do is make sure that you own a wooden house and then install all the features you want. With the book “How to Build a Simple Wooden House,” you’ll have everything required to construct a wooden house anywhere in the world. The book contains step by step guidelines on how you can build such a house from scratch. Start your journey to owning your dream home by reading the book: How to Build a Simple Wooden House!!!