Better Houses, Better Living is the book that makes home buying, home design and home remodeling more satisfying than ever before.

Whether it's an existing house, a new custom house, a modular house, a do-it-yourself remodeling project or you're looking for home repair tips, you can have a better house.

Use our detailed house design elements covering everything from home electrical systems, home plumbing layout and home HVAC systems to functional kitchen and bath design, bedroom design and home security as a home buying guide, home inspection guide and a guide to better house plans.

When you know a good home design from a bad home design, you'll have an edge when buying a home, building a home or remodeling your home. You can get a user friendly home that's a better house to live in.

"A solidly useful and highly recommended resource, enthusiastically recommended for home buyers and home owners — when applied to the expenses of one's home, the insights gleaned here literally pay for themselves." Midwest Book Review

"Ferguson delivers schooled advice on things to look for when buying a home, and things to avoid when remodeling." Seattle Times

"[Ferguson] addresses both materials and function, which can be very helpful for people window-shopping before they build or remodel." BackHome Magazine

Better Houses, Better Living helps home owners and home buyers by explaining the basics of home design and building from a user?s perspective. It clearly and succinctly details what makes a house "user-friendly" and a better place to live by focusing on practicality instead of just feeling and looks.

The book includes nearly 500 photographs that clearly show each element that is explained.

Before he retired and moved to Oregon in 1990, Myron Ferguson spent his professional career as a telecommunications systems engineer. He helped bring satellite communications to the world, working on the first satellite stations in a number of countries on five continents. His education and decades of engineering work made paying attention to detail an inherent part of his way of looking at things.

In Oregon he quickly noted how things in his new house were not made for the home user, but rather for the convenience of the builder and subcontractors. User friendliness and function, which had been an integral part of his satellite communications systems designs, were not (and are not) a way of thinking for home designers and builders. This started his second career, an author and publisher of books for homebuyers. He has written two editions of Build It Right! and is gratified that the book has sold well so that he can say that "over 30,000 new homes are better because of it."

His forté is in the details. He leaves the "big picture" to architects and home designers who focus on how a house looks, its spaces, the flow and how it pleases the senses. He wants to help people get that better house that'll make living in it more enjoyable.

Myron wants to get his message of thinking of the home user through to home builders as well home buyers. And he urges the designer and architectural communities to incorporate this paying-attention-to-detail into their work for new houses and for remodeling.