Thank you for visiting Steve Nyhof Enterprises, Inc., your house plans source for new home plan designs. While we have hundreds of small and large house plans to look through, we are still foremost a custom home design company whose interest rely on making sure our clients hard work and efforts to create the perfect place to call home are realized.

If you can find the perfect homes from a house plans in our database, we can save you some money from having to custom design a house plan. However, most of our house plans are designed from the ideas of existing house plans in our database, then incorporated into a new home plan design that fits your needs and desires for family living and entertaining.

I have been in the home design business for about 28 years, and have drawn more than 5000 house plans of every size, type and style. Only a handful of our best home plans and those house plans that are easier to construct are available online. Nevertheless, if you are planning on spending $200,000 to $500,000 or more, isn't it reasonable to consider the design phase of your new home to be thought through carefully, and the mold that will produce a place called home designed with every dream you have always wanted?

One thing to remember about a pre-drawn house plan, it is typically someone else's dream home, someone else's time spent creating the perfect layout for their family's needs. Now it is true, some people are more creative and the home plans developed from these people truly are beautiful works of art and still functional and practical, and maybe everything and more than you could ever imagine.

Many of these house plans are the work of home owners or home builders who have taken one of our existing home plan designs and modified it to make a unique, yet practical home design that fit the needs and desires of most people looking for a new home or home plan.

I just wanted to share these thoughts because I know because of experience that most people do not put enough thought into the exterior curb appeal or resale appeal, or interior layout and function of their new home. Your home design needs to be first practical and functional, everyday living is going to play it's part before anything else. And then the curb appeal or exterior design and materials can change the value of your home form 20 to 50 thousand dollars or more. Some times a simple change in the truss design can make a plain house look elegant and expensive.

Do your research, look at house plans and get ideas, but don't sell yourself short by just excepting what you see, purchase a plan and build a house. If you find a home plan on our sight or anywhere else, send it to us and ask if something can be done to increase the value of it's look by changing a few roof lines and materials. Some times to save a few thousand dollars on construction costs, people remove the very things that give the house curb appeal and beauty, then wonder why it appraised for $50,000 less then their bank loan, well, because it's ugly.

I have always believed there is a place where creative home design and practical cost effective materials can work together. I would guess that 90 percent of the home plans that will appeal to you will have 10 to 50 thousand dollars extra into non-standards design practices. Meaning, many designers have never built a house, nor swung a hammer. They do not spend the time needed to learn how to build with practical and cost effective home building materials and spans. I understand that everyone has there budget, and to design a home to fit a budget takes an experienced and field educated designer and home builder.