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Fresh ideas for redesigning your outdoor space

"Need some inspiration for revamping your outdoor space? James Roche, CEO of Houseplans.com, the largest online collection of ready-made house plans, has some innovative ideas for summer entertaining."

Marianne Cusato's Blueprint for the Future

"Architect Marianne Cusato became famous for designing a Katrina Cottage back in 2005. Today she suggests 5 features to be found in homes of the future."

Suite idea: Dual master bedrooms

"Some long-married couples are embracing the realities of aging — with two master bedrooms."

Sexy Home Design by Samuel Flores Flores

"Uruguayan architect Samuel Flores Flores has designed a 5 bedroom / 5 bathroom nontraditional home of the future - sleep downstairs and eat upstairs."

Beautiful laundry rooms for houses big and small

"Homeowners are rethinking the laundry room. Here are some layout ideas plus top-performing washers and dryers from Consumer Reports' tests."

12 Ways to Turn Organizing Dilemmas into Storage Solutions

"Make organizing problems disappear with 12 great tips for creating great storage solutions in your home."

Classic Home Flaws And How To Fix Them

"There are a number of common problems we see throughout home layouts. Sometimes you'll want to throw your hands in the air and give in, or you can learn from others' mistakes and improve the spaces in your life. Here are some of our top tips."

Tips for Increasing a Home's Property Value

"With the Spring selling season in full swing, now is the time for your clients to start making changes to improve their home's comfort level and the way it functions to make it more appealing to potential buyers."

The 10 Home Styles That Are Most Popular Around America

"If you're in the market to buy a house (or about to begin), you're likely to be engaging in a crash course in home styles. Do you go Craftsman, which, according to Houseplans.com, continue to be among the most popular style of home sold in the third..."

Five New Years' Resolutions for green building

"They say the best resolutions are those that are attainable; these are 'attainable sustainable.'"

21 Hot Housing Trends for 2015

"Everyone wants to be hip, and the latest trends in design can help distinguish one home from another. And it’s not all flash; many new home fads are geared to pare maintenance and energy use and deliver information faster. Here’s a look at what’s coming."

Home Buyers Embrace the ‘Contemporary Craftsman’ Look

"More builders are adopting the craftsman look—but are ditching the low ceilings and dark rooms."

Homeowners’ six favorite floor plans

"Federal Realty and Smart Living 360, a development and operating company that specializes in creating new communities with older adults in mind, recently began construction of the Stories at Congressional Plaza in Rockville."

More affordable green home plans coming to market

"As environmentally friendly, “green” homes become a larger part of the homebuilding landscape, San Francisco-based Houseplans.com, is helping bring that trend to life."

Millennials, Boomers differ over what makes a house a home

"Home plan selection shows generations moving in different directions"

Labor Day Labor On Home Improvements: What Won't Raise Your Resale Value

"Sources like Houseplans.com allow inventory to be searched to consider factors like lot size, shape, characteristics combined with virtually any style of home, from Adobe to Victorian to Colonial to French Country."

An affordable way to build a custom home

"Some residents in the D.C. area have turned to Houseplans.com to search among the site’s hundreds of home designs to find one that matches their desires and their budget."

An Antidote to Cookie-Cutter Homes

"Your typical home builder is under pressure to bring in a big profit while the market is hot. And the home design by default has to be somewhat generic so it won't scare way one group or buyers or another, notes James Roche, chief executive of Houseplans.com, which has thousands of plans on tap."

Houseplans acquires content-sharing platform BO.LT

"Six months after BO.LT shut down, it's being snapped up by its own co-founder"

Artfully Blending Indoor and Outdoor Spaces

"Blurring the line between indoors and outside is a design strategy that's here to stay for several reasons, said Nick Lee, residential architect and design chief at Houseplans"

Plans for the Masses

"With the emergence of websites such as Houseplans, high-quality designs of noted architects are but a click away."

8 Cliff May inspired ranch house plans from Houseplans

"Wow, those historic-minded folk at Houseplans are working overtime, it seems."

Houseplans Exec Builds Wine Country Home

"The result is a Glen Ellen rancher with 2,994 square feet, three bedrooms, three and a half baths and a not-so-scary price tag"

Sonoma Farmhouse by Houseplans

"Houseplans is based on a simple concept—it's an online source for architectural plans."

Gimme Shelter | Not Your Grandmother's House Plans

"Houseplans offers a growing number of contemporary houses by nationally recognized architects."

Sea Ranch in the Suburbs

"Whether you consider it democracy at work or architectural sacrilege, the online retailer Houseplans has begun selling blueprints for homes in The Sea Ranch."

Architectural Editor' Brings Constructive Ideas Together

"In the three years since he joined Houseplans, Gregory has reinvigorated a massive archive of 30,000 plans and added some unusual offerings."

How Much Should A Tiny House Plan Cost?

"Lester Walker, author of American Shelter and a Little House of My Own, now has his plans for sale on the site."

Inspired Inlaw Prefab Unveiled at WCG!

"Designed by Larson Shores Architects and available through Houseplans."

House Plans Flexa Studio

"Award-winning designer Casper Mork-Ulnes developed the Flexa Studio in collaboration with Houseplans."

Taking Stock of Stock House Plans

"Houseplans offers new designs like the Flexahouse by Nick Noyes, but also classics from great architects like the late William Turnbull."

FLEXAHOUSE: Modern Day Usonian?

"A series of house designs by architect Nick Noyes in conjunction with Houseplans that seem to have a Usonian-inspired lineage."

Gregory's House Plans Evoke Hero Cliff May

"At Houseplans, where nearly 175 architects contribute their original plans for a royalty fee, editor in chief Gregory is poised to inaugurate a series of designs for typical Bay Area lots and housing styles."

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