Our customers often ask if we offer Canadian house plans. The answer is YES! The House Plan Shop offers home design collections from two Canadian, residential designers. These collections include single-family homes, multi-family homes, a small group of carriage house plans, and even a log home. Just like the house plans drawn by our US designers, those drawn by our Canadian designers are designed to meet national building codes. We do not guarantee these plans will meet all provincial building codes and they are not engineered. It will be up to you, the homeowner, or your builder, to hire a local design professional to review the plans and add any notes or make any necessary changes to meet specific provincial codes. Likewise, if you are required to have your house plans engineered in order to get building permits, it will be up to you or your builder to hire a local engineer to review the plans and seal or stamp them.

Below are the links to our Canadian home plan collections:

Canadian house plan collection A

Canadian house plan collection B

Note: Collection B includes single-family house plans, multi-family house plans, and a small selection of carriage house plans

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With summer fast approaching, our minds start drifting to dreams of building a beach house for our summer retreat or maybe as a permanent residence where we can enjoy the sights and sounds of the ocean each day. For others, a beach house is a great place to spend long weekends with friends and family, but it can also serve as source of income if used as rental property. Below are seven things to know about beach houses that might help you decide if building a beach home is right for you:

1. Designed for shoreline living with the main living areas typically raised one level above the ground to accommodate rising tides and prevent flooding. This is achieved by building on a pier foundation (or pilings).
2. Usually, the parking area is located beneath the home and made possible by the pier foundation.
3. Floor plans feature large, strategically placed windows to maximize the coastal or shoreline view.
4. Floor plans incorporate large decks and porches for outdoor living space and provide an opportunity to soak up the sights and sounds of coastal living.
5. Often feature an open floor plan to allow gentle sea breezes to flow throughout the home.
6. Often incorporate specialized design elements, materials and construction methods to meet building requirements and specifications related to marine/coastal environments, geographic factors and regional climates.
7. Floor plans range in size and style offering everything from a simple beach vacation bungalow to a luxurious oceanfront home.

Browse or beach house plan collection to find the design that will satisfy your needs and lifestyle.

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