house construction

Illustrations and text provide information about seventeenth and eighteenth-century construction techniques and tools, discussing every aspect of home building, from choosing trees to finishing work.

Discusses different house building techniques, including log buildings; timber frame; pole; cordwood, stone, and earth masonry; and earth seleters.

Follows, in text and photographs, the building of a house from the architectural plans to moving-in day.

Max decides to build a house beside the lake, and must call upon many different workers to help complete the project.

A do-it-yourself guide to home construction, reviewing tools and materials; covering site and foundation preparation; examining the techniques of framing floors, walls, ceilings, roofs, and dormers; and discussing doors, windows, paneling, molding, floors, and stairs. Includes photographs, drawings, and diagrams.

Ben is unhappy at the prospect of leaving his home and friends and moving to another country, until a dream helps him realize the importance of the work he and his parents will be doing for Habitat for Humanity.

Text and illustrations describe the step-by-step planning and construction of a house.

Step-by-step instructions for building six different children's playhouses: a tree house, a wood frame house, a junkyard house, a post and beam house, a factory-built house, and a glass house.

The traditional nursery rhyme and a humorous story about Jack, who starts to build a do-it-yourself house, are presented on opposite pages.