Mississippi Chapter of American Institute of Building Design

If you’re looking to build a new home or addition onto your existing home, its always a good idea to use a Certified Professional Building Designer in your local area, to design your house plans. Professional members of the American Institute of Building Design are residential design specialists, and can help you to understand the [...]

As you begin the process of designing your new “dream home”, it may seem a little overwhelming at first. Terms like plan packages, building permits, architectural styles, floorplan layouts, bonus rooms, and more, may be confusing at first, however if you follow the simple tips below, you’ll have all the information that you need to [...]

Building a home represents the greatest financial investment most people will make in a lifetime and few envision how complex the process is until they are entangled in a jungle of restrictive covenants, building codes, zoning ordinances, design options, vendor and contractor choices and so on. Yet, most states do not have a licensing requirement [...]

Finding the appropriate building designer for your project is not a difficult task. The steps are similar to those you’d take in locating any qualified professional. First, you’ll need to compile a list of potential candidates. Start by asking friends, relatives and business associates if they’ve worked with building designers in the past, and ask [...]