We have new house plan purchasing options available through Associated Designs!

You can now purchase a 5 set construction drawing package or opt to have a PDF master emailed. Both packages offer the advantage of less resources used, which add up to time and money savings to you, the customer! Package pricing is determined on living square footage of the home and can be found on the website’s individual plan detail page.
Regardless of the package you choose, Associated Designs guarantees that if you find our house plans anywhere for less, we’ll not only match the price, but we’ll take give you an additional 10% off. That’s our 110% Guarantee!
We are very excited that our website has a fresh new look!
The new site is more user friendly with double the number of search criteria in the advance search, the ability to view side and rear elevations, and many more new features.
One unique new feature is our “Spin-Off Plans” button. This differs from the “Similar Plans” button in that it only shows the plans that are a revision of the plan you are viewing.
Newspaper publishers now have the ability to create a custom schedule based on plans they want to feature. A publication running a feature on cabins, for instance, can now get column materials for any available cabin design right online!
Since we have added more criteria to our search options, we are still feverishly entering the elevation views and additional data. If you happen across a plan that does not feature side or rear elevations, give us a quick call or email; we’ll get it entered for you!
Check out our new website and let us know what you think. We’d love to hear your feedback! Post your comments here on our blog!
Visit the new site here: Associated Designs or click the AssociatedDesigns.com button on the side bar.
The Home Builders Association of Lane County has constructed the Tazewell 30-477 house plan to showcase on the Tour of Homes held July 26th through August 3rd. Associated Designs has donated design services for the HBA PAC house for 9 years. This year’s HBA PAC house will highlight the use of green building techniques.
To view an article on construction of this years PAC house from On the Level, the June 2008 Newsletter of the Home Builders Association of Lane County click: hba-home-article.pdf
To view plan details of the Tazewell 30-477 click here. To view photos of this house’s progress, view comments.


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In reflective or visionary moments, maybe you’ve considered the possibility of designing and building a home perfectly suited to your lives.
That’s exactly what the staff at Associated Designs invited readers to do several months ago when we published the 2008 Home from the Heart survey. Readers like you, from all over the United States and Canada, accepted our invitation. Now we’d like to share the tallied results of that survey along with some comparisons to ten years ago.
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Remember that in order for a basement to be considered “habitable space”, it must have two (2) means of ingress & egress. This can be accomplished with doors, as in a “walk-out” (which requires a sloping lot), or with large windows, or with a “emergency basement door”. (See below)
Now, on with today’s House:
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