I've spent the past couple of days trying to find a builder for the house. So far I've sent out a couple of emails. Still looking.

I've also been researching places to get historically accurate materials for the house, such as obscuring glass, siding, etc.

I've found the following places and plan on contacting them as soon as I have some time:

http://eichlersiding.com/

http://www.eichlersolutions.com/

http://www.paloaltoglass.com

I still need to find a place that sells the tongue-and-groove ceiling planks that characterize Eichler homes.

Today I came across another supplier of Eichler plans and found a floorplan/design that I preferred to the one I was going to get from houseplans.com.

Here is the house that I am planning to build.

They are available from http://www.modernhomesrealty.com and have been redrawn from the original plans and updated to today's building codes!

Welcome!

Welcome to my new blog! My wife and I were in the market for a new house and in our house search we came across a very mid-century house that had been built in 1970. We fell in love with the house but unfortunately the deal fell through. In our search to find another house I became interested in mid-century houses in-general, and from there found out about "Eichler" houses. I found out that several websites were offering actual Eichler houseplans for sale and decided right then that I wanted to build a new, but historically accurate Eichler house on the East Coast. Hence this blog was born.

You can find out more about Joseph Eichler and his houses here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Eichler

There's also a cool movie about Eichler house owners here:
People in Glass Houses

Here is the house on http://houseplans.com that originally drew my interest.