One that let's you enter your desired appointments, dimensions?

House style:Ranch X
1st floor sq ft.: 1500 sq ft
second floor sq ft: 500 sq ft
basement sq ft : 600 sq ft
a.d.a. compliant: no O yes X
Bd rms :______
Baths: ______
1/2 baths: ____

etc etc

maybe they would have 35 or forty blanks to fill in .

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Most architechural floor plans/elevations/blueprints are copyrighted if the person who designs them has any sense. So I doubt it. Of course, I could be wrong. I'm sure there are plenty of people who are willing to sell you blueprints for a home, however.

If you have access to Visio (or graph paper), it's not that hard to come up with a basic design which a builder can start from.

My wife and I put a sketch together of something we thought we would like and would work. Gave that to a guy (with the right type of stamp) who would turn our sketch into blue prints and fix any stuff we drew that wouldn't work in the real world. He also added in roof line and such that we couldn't really do in our sketch.

It worked out well, and we've lived there 21 years.

Before we created our sketch, we saved blue prints we saw in magazines and newspapers for a few years to see features and styles that we liked.

Probably still in microfiche - the Sunday papers used to have a column that provided a house plan and some notes about it with a way to order the plans if you liked it. We would cut out those little schematics they published in the paper for years and years...

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Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
If you have access to Visio (or graph paper), it's not that hard to come up with a basic design which a builder an architect can start from.

FIFY

Any builder in their right mind isn't building a custom house without blueprints.

2,000 sqft isn't really a giant house.

I built our present home about 5 years ago and purchased plans from Don Gardner. There are several other plan websites out the but most have similar homes as Gardner. I think my plans cost about $1,500.00 for 6 sets.....I made minor changes to the plans myself.

https://www.dongardner.com/search/advanced

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Originally posted by Shaql:

quote:

Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
If you have access to Visio (or graph paper), it's not that hard to come up with a basic design which a builder an architect can start from.

FIFY

Any builder in their right mind isn't building a custom house without blueprints.

In rural Arkansas in 1975 my mom drew on a napkin what she wanted in a house and a local builder built it from that. He may have made some additional drawings, but I'm positive there was not an architect involved.

flashguy

Not sure of one that breaks the search down as much as you are wanting.
Best I found is number of bedrooms and square footage.
Then there would be more details in the synopsis you would have to go through.

Google, home plans and there are tons.

Working from the proverbial napkin sketch...

A builder can always go out and hire an structural engineer to come up with a set of working drawings. Or even an architect, but in many jurisdictions they won't need an architect to pull a building permit. Any builder with decent experience will have a feel for the features of a design that the architect usually fusses over. They can generally get that part done correctly. An architect helps, especially with zoning and building code impacts, but they're not required if the contractor knows his stuff for a given project location. More important is that the completed building is able to stay standing up, hence having the engineer's signed stamp is most important. Most builders won't assume that responsibility; they want an engineer to take that on. Their fee will simply be rolled into final cost of the completed home.

There are interactive home plans making apps across the web. Only requirement is that you're willing to sacrifice some of your privacy.

this home would be in tiny town so a few codes would have to be met.

Ester and Ed are in the process of selling their 520 acres of farm ground.
they want a ranch home with a second floor guest bed room(s) for when the kids come back to visit.

They have 5 acres on the town boundary for the house and a 5000 sq. ft. pole shed and two water wells.