How to Design Your Dream Home in 25 Years or Less!

Jan Jones Evans

Feb 2014 · AuthorHouse

About this ebook

BUYING PROPERTY? BUILDING A HOME? READ THIS FIRST! This engaging and practical guide will teach you How To Design Your Dream Home (In 25 Years or Less)! Learn how to save time and money, avoid common mistakes, choose the best location, plan your space and layout efficiently, design custom storage and organization, and so much more! Reduce regrets at projects end and make it easier on you, your builder/contractor, and your architect (if you use one). Offers amateur designers cheerful, intimate opinions on creating an ideal living space. endearing enthusiasmvery usefulinformal [and] occasionally amusing work. Kirkus/Indie Reviews For anyone who wants to undertake designing a home from the ground up, Jan Jones Evanss book should be a valuable resource. Evanss observations of her own design challenges are particularly helpful. [Her] honesty, along with her ability to talk about design and building details through an ordinary consumers eyes, makes for a book that is both engaging and instructional. offers the kind of helpful insight based on experience that should make planning and designing a home a much less time-consuming and arduous process. Barry Silverstein, Forward/Clarion Review Replete with gems of practical wisdomconversational style makes for easy readingwith an eye to optimize costs. Plenty of practical and useful knowledge to be gleanedmuch thoughtfulness and detailing went into every chapter. PSM Mumbai, India I am a Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser with over 40 years of experience in what makes a home distinctive, comfortable and valuable. ...I can honestly state, without reservation, that I dont recall ever seeing any other home with a more functional feel to its flow than Jan Evans dream home. I strongly recommend her book to anyone contemplating building their own home. RWJ Denver Not a dry, how-to book! Humorous & enthusiastic with a logical sequence of progression in the design/build process. well-thought-out and well-researched information, painting clear pictures of what she was talking about. It addressed aesthetics as well as practical suggestions. MRR, Bartlesville, Oklahoma

About the author

Jan Evans and her husband are retired and living in their dream home on their favorite lake in the Ozark Mountains. They bought their lake lot in 1986, and Mrs. Evans really did spend nearly 25 years designing their dream home. She is the daughter of a Realtor/builder/developer, and has been drawing floor plans, just for fun, for 50 years. She started out in Interior Design and drafting in college, but later found her true “calling” in special education. Mrs. Evans is now a retired speech pathologist and special education teacher. Therefore, she is obviously not an architect nor an engineer. However, she has either added on to, upgraded, or remodeled all the homes she has ever owned prior to designing their current home at the lake. Her father also remodeled all three of their family homes that she lived in as a child, so home design has always been a passion of hers. After realizing her life-long dream of designing and building her “dream home”, Mrs. Evans decided to write a book about the whole experience, even if it was just for fun and family. She has always been a prolific writer, but has never attempted to publish any of her writings until now. Some of her writings have been fictional, some educational, and some technical, all mostly for her children or her school. Since Mrs. Evans has known many people over the years who shared her interest in designing their own custom home, she decided to share her mistakes as well as her successes with others who may be interested in doing the same.