Whether you are buying your first home or designing your dream digs, Kit Homes: Your Guide to Home-Building Options, from Catalogs to Factories introduces you to the full range of kit home choices. This hands-on and accessible guide offers advice and guidance, provides essential tools, suggests additional resources, and walks you through the process of planning for and purchasing a kit home. Kit homes include houses derived from catalogs as well as modular, manufactured, and factory-built homes. These houses can provide greater design flexibility, cost and time efficiencies, and, often, a higher-quality finished product.

Comprehensive directories of kit home publishers and suppliers, an on-page glossary of key terms, recommended reading, and worksheets round out this thorough planning tool.

This valuable resource will help deliver a successful and satisfying home-buying experience.

a wide range of location choices

house plans, complete house kits, and factory-built homes

identifying specific wants and needs

assessing affordability and financing options

selecting a contractor to help build or manage the project

detailed information and tips on the construction process itself