“Encyclopedia of Canadian Home Designs”

Encyclopedia of Canadian Home Designs: 371 Home & Cottage Plans. Vancouver, BC: Home Planners, 2000. Print.

This is an odd type of book I haven’t seen in a while – I guess since the advent of the internet.  It’s a newsprint book of house plans, with a few random magazine articles stuck in the front and a tear-out order page to buy home plans.  It was on the shelf at the library and I borrowed it to look at small house plans.

Since theirs start at 1200 square feet, and the very first plan in the “Homes Under 1200 Square Feet” section has 1,371 square feet, they obvious weren’t thinking the same way I was.  I was surprised that I had seen so many of the plans on the internet already – so a lot of the ones you see online have been around for at least 10 years, which in retrospect shouldn’t surprise me.

Here, for instance, is the plan from page 34.  This one is actually a quite cute two-bedroom clocking in at only 920 square feet, well-laid out and I think quite livable.  I’ve seen this designer online and like the style of them.

There are also a few garage plans at the back.  All in all it was a fun waste of half an hour to leaf through, confirming that most home designers don’t really know any more than I do about layout out a floor plan.