Resources for New Builders: There is lots of great information here on small home building. Just mouse around this master portal page to links that interest you. Our Tiny House (200 sf) Design Contest has spurred many ideas! Visit the Owner-builder Gallery to see what folks are building for themselves.

Join the Small Home Discussion: Visit our free Forum. Use it to get answers to questions about home planning and building (using our plans, your own, or anyone elses). We have over 3,300 members with more than 69,000 Q&A posts.  Try the Owner-builder section for a first visit.

Customizing Stock Plans: Many of our members and visitors also find our sister site PlanHelp.com to be of interest. This is a subscription site most useful for it's planning and home design downloads. The site also includes template floor plans for many of our houses. Once you have the compatible software program, these templates allow you to edit a floor plan, rearranging walls, doors and windows. You can test furniture, layout a new kitchen and make a custom electrical plan. You can view your layout in 3D and then print out scaled floor plans that can be pasted into the pages of your blueprint structural plans.

Finally... don't know if you could really build a small house or cabin? Get Inspired!