Building Your Custom Home For Dummies: 2nd Edition

Kevin Daum · Janice Brewster Weiser · Peter Economy · Anne Mary Ciminelli

Sep 2021 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Mike Chamberlain

About this audiobook

Build a place you'll love to come home to Why settle for a house that looks like every other one in the neighborhood? With Building Your Custom Home For Dummies, you can design and build the home of your dreams. From brainstorming must-have features to hanging a wreath on the front door, this book walks you through what you need to know from start to finish. Get savvy on purchasing property, securing financing, and raising the walls that will become the setting for life's next chapter. If you can imagine it, you can build it! In this book, you'll learn how to locate your ideal building site; hire an architecture and contracting team you can trust; finance smoothly and manage your construction budget; discover new green building techniques; oversee construction from A to Z; and furnish, landscape, and maintain your property.

About the author

Kevin Daum is the award-winning author of six books, including ­Building Your Own Home For Dummies.

Janice Brewster Weiser has written extensively on custom homes and is a former editor of Log Home Living magazine.

Peter Economy is a bestselling business author, ghostwriter, developmental editor, and publishing consultant with more than 100 books to his credit, including Everything I Learned About Life, I Learned in Dance Class by Abby Lee Miller, Managing For Dummies, and The Management Bible.

Anne Mary Ciminelli is an author, editor, and ghostwriter.

Mike Chamberlain is an actor and voice-over performer, as well as an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator. Along with animation and video game characters, Mike performs narration and voices promos for television. He lives with his wife and daughter in Southern California.