Best Websites For Tips On Building A DIY Flat Pack Home

Wednesday 8 February 2017

If you can put together an airplane model kit, you can put together a DIY flat pack home. The components to put them together come pre-assembled, and you can put one together in no time. The cost savings over traditional homes can't be beat, either. There are many websites that can give you helpful tips and advice to help you design some truly astonishing DIY homes and add-ons. Here are a few good ones.
Home Channel Video: Building a Flat Pack Log Cabin
If you enjoy working with your hands and exploring all the options of building a flat pack house on your own, then watch the video Lindsay Roper made that shows you how to put together your own DIY flat pack log cabin. Lindsay owns a Bed and Breakfast in the Cotswolds and was looking to expand her business by constructing a DIY log home on her property. The video shows her constructing the home from top to bottom in the gardens around her house.
Lindsay accomplishes what she set out to do and winds up with a cozy wooden cabin with a veranda and double rooms at the end of the video. The log cabin looks downright quaint and at home in the beautiful surrounding area of the Cotswolds. Follow along closely with what she does on the video and you can order and construct your own. Be sure to watch all the videos on the Home Channel to build up your arsenal of DIY needs and knowledge.
Ideabox.us
One example of a master DIY flat pack company and helpful resource for potential DIY owners is Ideabox. They manufacture affordable ultra-modern DIY homes that have been certified and decorated by the engineered green home association. They prefabricate small to big model homes that are green, energy efficient and help their homeowners lead a healthy lifestyle. They've even designed a whole community of flat panel DIYs in Eugene, Oregon.
One thing that is of the most interest regarding them is the way the Ideabox team works with their clients to help them design their home, decorate it and place it on site. They call it the design phase, and the team meets with the customers to find the best fitting DIY home for their needs. They make building the home easy, and the team helps with all parts of the DIY home building process.
Another great service they provide is helping their clients pick out an ideal site for their flat panel home to be placed on if they don't have a site yet. Ideabox is involved in all phases of the project and oversee their customer obtaining site work, general contractors, transportation and permits. The entire process takes about eight weeks, and then you are ready to live in your DIY flat panel home.
SunPorch.com
Anyone looking to put a really nice add on to their home should look up the online company, SunPorch. They get added to this list because of the simplicity of their website and providing an online link that makes putting together a DIY sun porch a cinch.
You can use their online tool at the link to get a virtual 3D model and floor plans for your customized sun porch. You just enter in the zip code of where you live, and the link will prompt you to put in all the dimensions for the sun porch that you want.
Once this is completed you'll get online blueprints and drawings that are so simple that you will have the sun porch put together in about two days. The baseline model price is quoted immediately when you are finished entering the size of the sun porch. Choosing any modification or features like extra doors automatically updates all the drawing and blueprints and the total cost of the sun porch. Delivery is free and delivered by a white gloves service to your doorstep.
Historic Home Restoration
Some of the most ambitious DIY undertakings are the historic do it yourself historic houses restoration projects. Whole homes are dismantled and carted off to another place to be re-assembled later. Sometimes it's even another country that the components are taken to. This practice started in 1870 when wealthy merchant, John Fulford fell in love with a nine-bedroom manor while he visited Norway. He had the mansion taken apart and shipped the pieces back to Britain. The home is currently up for sale, and they are asking for £500,000 for it.
DIY historic houses don't have to be that much trouble. Many DIY savvy builders are disassembling historic old barns, numbering the pieces and shipping them to a new place where they are put together quite easily.
Anyone that is looking for an inexpensive and easily assembled DIY flat pack home or add on should consult an online company that makes things simple for you to order the DIY and put it together onsite. Many of the online resources have many helpful tips and suggestions that make putting them together much easier. Keep in mind that you don't have to spend a lot of money or wait a long time to get the DIY home of your dreams.
Patrick O'Reilly is a freelance writer and has constructed DIY flat pack homes and add ons for his lovely property in the mountains. He especially enjoys listening to his fellow DIY builder friends discuss their stories of using DIY components to aid in historic houses restoration projects. His friends found online resources like the ones at HomeDesignCity.com very helpful to the success of their project.


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