Popular Mechanics Build-It-Yourself Ranch-Type House

Charming and hard-to-find plan book with complete instructions and drawings for building a house from the ground up. Includes a modernist fireplace with extensive details, cabinetry drawings, and some furniture drawings. Of special interest is the chapter on expaining the concept of "bench-building" -- a method allowing you to pre-fabricate the walls in your basement workshop over the winter! The interior of this "build-it-yourself" house is appealing in its modern simplicity. From the cover "complete step-by-step instructions, details, diagrams and pictures show you how...".

Rough condition, with white plastic comb binding half missing. A few pages loose. Edges quite worn. Rescue it now!

pub date: 1951 publisher: Popular Mechanics pages: 132 format: Softcover sku: 417443 $79.95