1.   Kit-house companies will help you design your home and provide useful advice.

2.   These traditionally built homes are designed with comfort and convenience in mind.

3.   And he designed his home with an overhanging roof that admitted the sunshine in winter and excluded it in summer.

4.   About seven years ago, Broad commissioned the architect to design his home in Brentwood, but he had the house built before the design was completed.

5.   Across the Valley, architect Greg Nelson was chosen to design a home for Jitu and Meena Mehta in Chatsworth.

6.   Designing a home can be fraught with anxiety.

7.   Haines designed many homes for Joan Crawford, one of his oldest and closest friends, and worked for lots of major stars at one time or another.

8.   He said the homes would be designed along the lines of the beachfront estates of Southampton, Newport and Palm Beach.

9.   His home was designed by the undisputed leader among historic Palm Beach architects, Addison Mizner, who gave the town its Mediterranean style.

10.   In Marin County, Calif., Sim Van der Ryn, an architect, has designed a home with walls made of rammed earth mixed with quarry waste.