AROUND HOME : Home Planners Most Popular Home Designs

(Home Planners, Inc.; 1988)

HERE’S A SUITABLE topic for a psychologist: Why do so many people who have no intention (or at least an extremely remote possibility) of ever building a home find immense pleasure in looking at house plans? Those small blueprints, with accompanying drawings of stately entrances to single-story cottages, gargantuan estates or vacation hideaways, are irresistible to some of us. This hefty paperback volume offers 360 floor plans, including farmhouses and plantation-style mansions. Decisions, decisions. ($8.95)