Explaining Our Plan Collections
With the help of Houseplans Design Director Nicholas Lee I have been making some introductory slide-show videos to explain some of our plan collections. They’re now on You Tube. One talks about our Exclusive Studio,
which now includes twenty-five architects and designers from around the country and as far away as Brazil, India, and Italy.
I’m very proud of the variety of home plans in this collection — glimpsed in the collage above — and extremely grateful to the architects and designers who have joined our Exclusive Studio. Click on this link: Exclusive Studio Video or browse the Exclusive Plans section of the website.
The Cottage Style Slide-Show explains the derivation of the style from
early pattern books like Cottage Residences by Alexander Jackson Davis and Andrew Jackson Downing of 1842, shown here. Another video describes the Ranch House idiom and mentions precedents
like the Las Flores Rancho in San Diego County, from the early 1800s. The slide-show on Craftsman plans explains connections to work
by the famous Pasadena brother architects Charles Sumner and Henry Mather Greene from the 1910s.
Nick Lee has also created a video describing the Plan Modification Process. We’ll be adding more videos regularly.
