From: Ray

"My wife and I have a basic design of an octagon house. We are not going to build any time soon so we have plenty of time to do the research. Right now it's just a basic idea. Who do we go to or how can we draw up the blue print. I have plenty of time to learn to draw it up myself."

Hi Ray,

I love octagon houses. I have stayed in them at mountain resorts several times in the past and I love the way they just seem to hang “off” the side of a mountain.



Which leads me to a word of caution: Most Octagon houses are post and beam construction. They also have a complicated roof design, (which can be prefabricated to lower cost), but at any rate, an engineer must be involved in the design.



Here’s a company, Topsider, that designs and manufactures Octagon homes. (I have stayed in their models…they’re cool!)

You can modify one of their plans or, have them start with and work from yours. They have design and manufacturing staff, assistance in locating local builders or subcontractors, and even financing.

Here’s some info from their website, www.topsider.com

Topsider's post and beam building system permits foundation types ranging from conventional crawl-spaces, slabs and basements to homes built on stilts, pilings and pedestals. Each home is custom designed and adapted to the demands of the building site, requirements of local building authorities, and the design preferences of the homeowner.



Incredibly strong post and beam home construction. Easy and quickly built by any qualified new home builder, or skilled do-it-yourselfer.

FREE Cost Estimates showing "constructed" house cost details for any Topsider Homes' design, prefabricated and built on your site.

Panelized Luxury Homes, Custom Built to the Specific Requirements of our Customer's Needs and Lifestyles

Topsider Homes is the maker of a unique and high quality home building system, based on a post and beam structural approach to construction and new home building. Each house begins as a custom home plan, with corresponding house building materials prefabricated and shipped in building component form to clients' building sites for construction by local home builders. Topsider Homes are luxury homes in quality and appearance.



Topsider Homes are prefabricated homes with panelized building components. They incorporate many of the advantages of modular homes and are a high quality alternative to modular house construction. Many clients have also found our post and beam building system an excellent alternative to log homes, log cabin construction, geodesic dome homes, as well as other contemporary new home designs, construction methods and other building systems.



Each Topsider Home is custom designed by our in-house architectural design staff, and is built to the specific requirements of our clients' lifestyles and home building needs. Topsider Homes are an ideal residential building system, equally well suited for primary homes, vacation homes, retirement homes, beach houses, mountain homes, coastal homes and home additions.

Good luck Ray,

Carl


Remember: By being the General Contractor (GC), determining building costs & hiring professionals (subcontractors) to do the actual work (That’s what a GC does), YOU can be your own General Contractor for ANY type of construction: New homebuilding to build your “Dream House”), room additions, remodeling older homes; Build log homes, kit homes, Octagon Homes, even renovate foreclosures. Since you are the “Boss”, YOU can chose your own house plans or home plans, YOU can design your kitchen, YOU can decide to build “Green”, build with Solar, Wind, geothermal heat pumps, or anything else YOU desire, and YOU can do it for a lot LESS!