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From the nation's leading hands-on home improvement magazine, The Family Handyman Home Plans presents over 350 best-selling designs for houses to delight potential dwellers of wide-ranging tastes, needs and budgets.Showcasing the finest work from 45 of North America's top home-design firms, this inspiring resource offers line drawings of each exterior and inviting capsule descriptions of every space inside -- for dining, sleeping, playing, entertaining, storage and pure pleasure. (Imagine a home with a covered rear porch, an island snack bar or a garden spa tub.)Detailed floor plans lay out the total living area, with room-by-room square-foot dimensions. Homebuilders will also find crucial facts on wall framing, foundation and price code. Each numbered plan refers readers to an 800 phone number where they can order the complete blueprint to get them started in building the house of their dreams.From modest to majestic, from cozy to stunning, appealing home designs include: -- Classic Cottage with Style, finished in striking stucco with a columned front porch -- Vivacious Victorian, featuring a bay-windowed dining room with a built-in china hutch -- Mediterranean Splendor, boasting a gorgeous master bedroom with a see-through fireplace and sunken bath