Home Plan Doctor

“If home plans and blueprints look like hieroglyphics to you, this book is the Rosetta Stone.”
Kevin Ireton, editor, Fine Homebuilding

“Clear and practical advice from a veteran designer. If you’re building from a stock plan, this book could save you from a lot of mistakes.”

Kevin Ireton, editor, Fine Homebuilding

“If you’re building from a stock plan, read this book first. You’ll get a better house, and you’ll like likely save money too.”

Kevin Ireton, editor, Fine Homebuilding

"Like a Consumer’s Guide for electronics, this book gets ‘under the hood’ of what makes a space into a workable, functional, happy house, translating arcane architectural language into everyday language. Not just for house plans -- anyone who is looking to buy a home, and to shape the where and the way of how they live, needs to own this book." Melanie Taylor, Melanie Taylor Architecture Gardens LLC

Larry Garnett’s Home Plan Doctor provides a powerful dose of preventative medicine for those who wish to avoid the headaches of homebuilding. This comfortably written, ultra-informative book is absolutely loaded with often-overlooked details that are essential to consider before you build. I guarantee you’ll find yourself saying “I never would have thought of that” – but you’ll be thankful Larry did.