Christine Cooney

Christine has over a decade of experience as a house plan and floor plan expert. Outside of providing her expertise to customers to help them find and build their dream homes, her passion and knowledge of the home building industry allows Christine to guide families and builders through all of the important steps from finding plans to building custom homes that meet the expectations of today’s new home owner. Christine’s years of knowledge of the diverse trends and needs of the modern homeowner has made her into an authoritative and trusted voice in the online house plan community..

Leading architect from The House Designers designs a house plan for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in Texas

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Leading architect from America’s best-selling house plan company, The House Designers helps design a custom house plan for a worthy family in Texas for “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” ABC’s Emmy award-winning reality TV Show, “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” will surprise a worthy family in Bastrop County Texas where wildfires destroyed 1,500 homes this past Labor […]

Featured House Plans: One-Story Plans

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  Today’s one-story house plans go well beyond the traditional ranch home. Architects and designers are taking the single story house plans to a whole new level by incorporating a variety of innovative and unique shapes and sizes to meet the needs, budget and lifestyle of future new home builders. Consumers and builders can expect […]

House Plans: Innovative New Cottage House Plans

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The House Designers recently featured some of their newest cottage house plans in their weekly newsletter Dream Designs, which keeps consumers and builders updated on their latest house designs. These new cottage homes go well beyond the simple cabin or bungalow by combining luxury design features and amenities with traditional cottage styling, which include steep […]

New House Plan Videos

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New HD Green House Plan Videos from The House Designers The House Designers recently added four new house plan videos to their House Designers YouTube Channel. Each house plan was recently featured in the ENERGY STAR House Plan Competition. This competition recognizes the most innovative new green house plans. These new videos were all created […]

Ask A House Designer: Building a Green Home

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The designers and architects at The House Designers would like to encourage consumers and builders to submit their questions about building a green home since they are the leaders in designing authentic green house plans. This week’s question: Q: Will I be sacrificing performance and style using WaterSense® bath products? A: Homeowners typically use over […]

Fypon Offers New Real-Time Architect Website

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Architects and designers can now add exact specification details on synthetic millwork products to their blueprints for their latest home building projects by using Fypon’s® new architect website. The website includes a Design Tools section with a Fypon® CAD program that features a searchable DWG library, detailed CSI specifications and access to the extensive Fypon® […]

Designing Your Vacation Home

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If you own a vacation home, you may find it challenging to figure out how the most affordable way to design and decorate it, while still making it appealing to renters. Since you’ll probably be using your home to vacation, you’ll need to find a way to balance your personal style and comfort with durable […]

Celebrate National BBQ Month

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Celebrate National Barbecue Month by checking out a sample of our newest and most popular house plans featuring great outdoor living spaces in this week’s Dream Designs newsletter. Throw a cook-out or just enjoy family dinner in one of our outdoor kitchen designs featuring all the latest in outdoor cooking appliances, like hybrid cooking grills, […]