Excerpt from the Hattiesburg American business section feature article on 4/13/08:

A Hattiesburg company is gaining national recognition for its unique home designs.

House Plan Gallery was started in 1996 by George Mathis, who served as the director of the architectural technology program at the University of Southern Mississippi for more than 20 years.

Mathis started the company - where his son Mark Mathis now serves as president and his son Stephen Mathis serves as the vice president - to provide high-quality, affordable stock home designs to local customers, as well as to customers around the United States and Canada.

The company recently received the Most Marketable Designer - Builder Sales and Top 25 Stock Home Designers in America awards, both presented by Hanley Wood - a business-to-business media and information company.

“We feel that House Plan Gallery is very unique in the stock house plans industry due to the fact that each of our designs are entirely based on continual market research, customer feedback and ongoing, industry-related developments, improvements and trends,” Mark Mathis said.

The firm concentrates its energies on designs for homes between 1,000 and 3,000 square feet of living space, in Southern, country, traditional, craftsman, European and French Country architectural styles. The designs come complete with all the most-popular home amenities and floor plan features, Stephen Mathis said.

The full text of the article can be viewed on the Hattiesburg American website at:

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080413/BUSINESS/804130310/1046

House Plan Gallery, a leading nationally-published designer of stock house plans, wins “Most Marketable Designer - For Builders” award, for the second year in a row from Hanley Wood.

Hattiesburg, MS (PRWEB) March 28, 2008 - House Plan Gallery is a small, Hattiesburg, Mississippi-based home design firm that has been marketing its popular collection of over 200 stock house plans for over ten years, around the United States and Canada.

So it was only a matter of time before this leading house plan designer received an award for the marketability of its plan collection and its commitment to providing the highest levels of customer service.

On February 13th, 2008 at the International Builders Show in Orlando, Florida, House Plan Gallery was awarded the “Most Marketable Designer - For Builders” award by Hanley Wood, one of the North America’s leading house plan publishers. The award was given at the “Top 25 Stock Home Plan Designers” dinner, hosted by Hanley Wood, and the 2008 award was House Plan Gallery’s second time to win this award. The first award being at the 2007 International Builders Show.

“As our home plans collection has grown, in both size and diversity, we’ve been able to partner with the largest house plan publishers in the industry. Hanley Wood is, clearly, one of the leading publishers in the market, and we’re very privileged to be able to work closely with their team to provide the highest-quality, and most-popular house plans in the industry”, noted Mark Mathis, President of House Plan Gallery.

House Plan Gallery primarily designs floor plans from 600 to 3,000 square feet of living space, in a wide variety of Architectural styles including Southern, Country, Traditional, Craftsman, European and French Country.

To view a compiled listing of several of the most-purchased stock house plans in the industry right now, you can go to: http://www.houseplangallery.com/index_files/best-selling-house-plans.php

About House Plan Gallery:
House Plan Gallery is an Award-winning designer of stock house plans that include all the most-popular home amenities and most-requested floor plan features. The company’s home designs have been purchased and built by thousands of satisfied consumers and home builders throughout North America.

To learn more, visit www.HousePlanGallery.com and search our large database of home plans in a wide variety of Architectural styles. Join our mailing list to receive special Subscriber-Only offers and to learn money-saving tips on building your first new home…

About Hanley Wood:
Hanley Wood, LLC, is the premier media and information company serving housing and construction. Through four operating divisions, the company produces award-winning magazines and Web sites, marquee trade shows and events, rich data and custom marketing solutions. The company also is North America’s leading publisher of home plans. Hanley Wood Business Media (Washington, D.C.), publishes 36 award-winning residential and commercial construction titles, including Builder, Remodeling, Architect, Concrete, Construction, and Residential Architect. Hanley Wood Business Media also offers the construction industry’s foremost collection of Web sites, including BUILDER ONLINE, REMODELING ONLINE, and ebuild, the comprehensive online guide to building products, as well as the largest collection of house plans online through eplans.com and Dream Home Source.

Founded in 1976, Hanley Wood is a $250 million company owned by affiliates of JPMorgan Partners, LLC. CCMP Capital Advisors manages the Hanley Wood investment for JPMorgan Partners.

View this House Plan Gallery press release online at PRWEB.com

As we enter the New Year , our team at HousePlanGallery.com would like to wish you and your family - health, happiness, and continued success in 2008!

We look forward to helping you find the house plans and floor plans of your dreams!

Your Friends at House Plan Gallery

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