With beautiful, full-color photography and colorful illustrations, Southern Inspired Home Designs offers readers 275 plans of the best-selling and most up-to-date Southern-style home designs available. Beautiful windows, carefree stucco and brick exteriors, graceful porches with colonnades - these are some of the architectural hallmarks of Southern home design. This book offers a wide variety of home styles and sizes to fit the budget of most readers. Supplementing the designs are practical tips and advice on everything from selecting a site and hiring a contractor to adding such finishing touches as trimwork and landscaping.