Last updated: September 30, 2026
Lovely Harbor articles are written by our contributors under the supervision of founder Simone Nulli Rinalducci. You can read more about who we are on our About page.
How we assess house plans
House plan articles are written from the designer’s measured drawings and elevations, not from the marketing description supplied with the listing.
We hold to the following, and you can check us against them:
- Every dimension we publish appears on the drawings. We do not estimate, round for readability, or present an approximation as a specification. Where a plan’s own documentation conflicts, we resolve it and say which figure we used.
- We report unheated area separately. Porches, garages, lofts and unfinished bonus rooms are listed as their own square footage rather than folded into the heated total, because they are built at full cost and do not count the same way on an appraisal.
- We name the running cost of a design choice. Volume, glazing and exposed assemblies carry consequences a floor plan does not show, and we state them even when the plan is one we recommend.
- We never publish a construction cost or a cost per square foot. Those figures depend on your lot, your market and your builder. We tell you what to price separately; we do not invent a number.
- We say what we have not seen. We assess drawings. Unless we state otherwise, we have not visited a built example of the plan.
- We disclose the commercial relationship. Links to plan marketplaces are affiliate links. No designer or marketplace reviews our assessments before publication, and none has editorial input.
Use of AI
Our contributors use AI tools to help with research, drafting and editing, and they shape, check and finish every article themselves. They also use AI to create concept renders that visualize design ideas. The ideas and recommendations come from current trends and our own experience.
Images on Lovely Harbor may be real photos or AI-generated concepts, and each post carries a note saying so. Concept renders show ideas, not real rooms, products or places.
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Corrections
If you spot a mistake or something out of date, please let us know and we’ll look into it and fix it.