A Stock House Plan is a plan that was designed and construction documents prepared at an earlier date and now for sell to you, as-is. Maybe the plan was once a custom design for a Home Builder or Home Buyer. Maybe it was a plan the Designer prepared speculating that it will be a popular selling house plan. Never-the-less, it is available for you to purchase and build on your lot and the cost of the plan is a fraction of that if you were to hired a Home Designer to design it for you personally.

Similar to a map the orientation of the view is downward from above, but unlike a conventional map, a plan is understood to be drawn at a particular vertical position (commonly at about mid-level between floors). Objects below this level are seen, objects at this level are shown 'cut' in plan-section, and objects above this vertical position within the structure are omitted or shown dashed. Plan view or "plan form" is defined as a vertical orthographic projection of an object on a horizontal plane, like a map.

The term may be used in general to describe any drawing showing the physical layout of objects. For example, it may denote the arrangement of the displayed objects at an exhibition, or the arrangement of exhibitor booths at a convention. Now drawings are reproduced using plotters and large format xerographic copiers.

It is also called a "plan" in architectural terms, as opposed to "elevation" which means how the object will look when seen from a side, or a "cross section" where the building is shown cut along an axis to reveal the interior.

In most cases, minor revisions can be made to a Stock House Plan by it's original Designer or Architect. With the new computerized drafting programs, the newly revised plan is now a new plan all by itself. Unlike the olden days when a draftsman makes an erasable copy and makes the revisions on the erasable copy. We called those revisions "Sepia Changes" because it was Sepia Paper that was used to redraw those revisions on.

Now when you do purchase a Stock House Plan, you are not really purchasing the design itself. Rather you are buying a license to build the plan one time on your property. It would be a dishonest thing to do to share or sell the plans with another person. Not only is it dishonest, it is a violation of a Federal Copyright Law. It is also against the law to carry any house plan, either a final blueprint or a copy from a brochure to a drafts-person to copy it.

Before beginning your new Home Design, take a look at the Stock House Plans on Korel Home Designs. You could save a lot of money.