Build Your Own Low-Cost Home: Complete Working Drawings and Specifications for Eleven Homes Suitable for Year-Round and Vacation Use, With Step-By-S

From the back cover: "Developed for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, under whose auspices they were originally published, these plans give you complete information for building a sturdy, modern, permanent house that will meet building codes...The architects have devised a series of plans to meet a very wide range of needs. There is a house for two persons, a house for a family of twelve, with other houses in between. There are conventional houses and there is also a round house, a tubular house and a duplex. All, however, have been designed to meet the twin needs of living convenience and minimum cost. 'For each home are working drawings tha cover: foundations; floor construction; wall construction (in some cases all interior walls are non-load-bearing and can be arranged to fit the individual builder's needs); roof construction; shelf and cabinet construction; all the elevations, front, back, left, right; and, construction details showing the relationship of the various parts.... The construction manual will provide, from before you begin to plan, through the actual construction, the clear directions that will make your home not only low cost, but also safe, warm, personal, beautiful, and everything else a home should be. '1972 publication. Includes 9 plans and construction manual originally published in 1969, and 2 plans as revised in 1971. 204pp, 11x17."