I've been looking for free house plans all over. Here's what I found:
I'm on a quest to find a great house plan. Naturally, I started looking for free house plans at first. After some exhausting hours of searching, I came back with some good news and some bad news.
The good news
You can look at a ton of house plans for free online.
The bad news
If you want to get real copies of those house plans, you will have to pay real money for them. They are delivered by old fashioned mail or on a CD if you buy the CAD files. I've seen some sites advertising free plans, but as the saying goes, there's no such thing as a free lunch. All these "free" offers are just a trick to get your email and to push something that's not actually free on you. If you find any real offer for free house plans, please contact me.
The silver lining
After my initial shock of having to pay 500 - 1500 dollars for a set of house plans, I made peace with the idea of spending the money, because a) it's not that much money compared to the overall construction cost, and b) my only alternatives would be to either pay much more for a custom design or draw my own plans (after spending a few years learning how to do this, haha).
But because these plans cost money, it's important for me to make the right decision, so that I don't buy a set of plans that I won't end up using, because practically everywhere you buy them you can't return them.
What's next?
On this website I'm sharing the information I'm gathering in my quest for free house plans. Maybe I can save you some time and hassle. Look around on this site and check out my new free house plans site for updates.