
LIVABILITY AT GLANCE®
A tool to evaluate a home’s suitability for your needs based on four elements or lenses. Entertaining (yellow), De-stressing (blue), Storing (orange) and Flexible Living (green).

A Better Way to Search for Home Plans. What if you could search for home plans based on what’s most important to you, your lifestyle and your preferences?
Now you can search home plans by the relative importance of each Livability At A Glance® lens -- Entertaining, De-stressing, Storing and Flexible Living. Preference indicators have been added to our home plan search options, allowing you to identify how important each of the four aspects are to you.

Searching home plans by square footage and type can be useful…it helps you rule out some designs. But if you want help finding the perfect home plan, according to your needs and wants, search as to the home’s livability. You’ll discover the heart and soul of its design.
1. More about Livability At A Glance®
2. Take our Livability At A Glance® Quiz to help you discover which lenses are important to you!
3. Search our Home Plan Library based on the lenses that are important to you.
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HOME PLAN BOOK STORE
HOME PLANS FOR HOW YOU LIVE. - 4 book set - $13.95. All floor plans colorized with our 'Livability at a Glance™ palette to help you understand how each floor plan 'lives'.
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Do you often work from home? You may be a perfect candidate for what we call a "pocket office." Read "Pocket Office Home Plans"
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