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Materials cost calculator & plan finder

Pick a wood species and a footprint, and this tool does two things at once: it estimates a materials budget from the real average $/sq ft across all 224 published plans, and it surfaces the closest actual plans in the library so you can go straight to a cut list instead of guessing.

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Closest matching plans

Ranked by how close each plan's real footprint is to your selected size, filtered to your species/difficulty/type choices.

PlanFootprintWoodDifficultyCost (actual)Build time
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Library average, by species

Average low/high materials cost per square foot, computed directly from every plan in this library that uses each species — the same numbers driving the estimate above.

SpeciesPlans$/sq ft (low)$/sq ft (high)
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