Construction

Step-by-step guide to contracting your own home, Easy to follow charts and checklists. Over 127 Detailed illustrations. The complete do-it-yourself guide for becoming your own contractor, buying or renovating homes, hiring contractors, financing, collecting estimates, space planning, project management, scheduling, selecting materials, supervising. …

With economic restructuring, demographic shifts, and lifestyle changes, the traditional family - working father, stay-at-home mother, two to three children - is no longer the norm and the need for smaller homes at moderate cost has skyrocketed. The first prototype of the Grow Home was built on the campus of McGill University in 1990 and more than o …