Designing a House: An Illustrated Guide to Planning Your Own Home

by Lester Walker

Award-winning architect Lester Walker’s books on American home architecture have become classics in the field, selling over 200,000 copies. Now, at long last, Walker has created a step-by-step guide for prospective homebuilders who want to play a role in customizing their house plan. Each stage is illustrated with easy-to-follow diagrams and photographs. Designing A House will appeal not only to the layman but to the student of architecture as the perfect introduction to the tools and methods of designing a beautiful and comfortable home.

Genres: Architecture, Nonfiction, Design

144 pages, Paperback

First published June 7, 1976

About the author

Lester Walker is an award-winning architect and author of numerous books related to houses and architecture, including Little House of My Own, Housebuilding for Children and Block Building for Children. He lives in Woodstock, New York, where his architectural firm is based.

Reviews

[Halli]

Incredibly helpful! Helps focus the design process a bit. Great tips for the future!

[Joseph Hamilton]

I’m sure this is a very good book. I have not used it to design a house. After perusing this book I doubt it is likely that I will design a house. The book shows that its a lot of work to design a house. So in a way for me the book has served a useful purpose and redirected my energies elsewhere.

Before you get this book let me save you a little trouble. It will tell you that the first step is to start a scrap book of ideas, sketches, photos, clippings, -Pinterest stuff, in other words. Once you have the fragments of your dream house then get this book and follow the remaining directions.

[Daniel]

I never thought of designing my own house until I saw this book. Now I like the idea. Is seems exciting to design my own house. I enjoyed the book.