Building Your Home

In this smart and witty guide to building a home while keeping your sanity, architect Kristina Leigh Wiggins shares knowledge accumulated from years of experience as a project manager, and explains how to stay organized when creating or remodeling your home. Building Your Home: A Simple Guide to Making Good Decisions is filled with beautiful photographs, helpful diagrams, and most importantly customizable worksheets for every stage of your project In this combined workbook and keepsake, Wiggins shares practical decision-making strategies based on discovering your personal needs, limitations, and goals, so that you can build the home of your dreams, one good decision at a time!
In a savvy guide to remodeling and building homes, architect and project manager Kristina Leigh Wiggins guides us through every step of the daunting process. Whether your project is indoors or outdoors, long term or short term, big or small, you'll want to have A Simple Guide to Making Good Decisions with you to help you achieve your dream home.
Kristina Leigh Wiggins is a successful residential architect and designer who has been pursuing her passion since she was a teenager in shop class. She studied architecture and design at Texas A&M University and founded her own wildly popular design and consulting firm soon after. She also founded her own fashionable clothing line called lil&tess, named after her two daughters. Kristina has been passionate about helping people build and remodel homes for years, and wrote this book hoping to provide people a guide for a chapter of life that can be overwhelming but also extremely rewarding if one simply knows how to make good decisions.
"I'm all about keeping things simple and organized which is why I fell in love with Building Your Home: A Simple Guide to Making Good Decisions. From the stunning photos to the tips on budgeting and communication with contractors, Kristina Leigh covers it all!" -- Zabrina Hancock "Interior Stylist/Blogger, ZDesign At Home"
"This book is a great resource for anyone thinking about a building or remodeling project.With so many moving parts and things to consider during the process, Kristina Leigh's approach, which considers lifestyle, daily routine and a master plan for the future gives homeowners and their building team critical background information to succeed." -- Brent Hull "Host, HISTORY's "Lone Star Restoration," owner and founder, Hull Historical and author of Building a Timeless Home in an Instant Age"