The House Designers is chock full of custom home plans and ideas for building your dream house.  What I found encouraging was that they also recommended life safety products such as residential fire sprinklers as an option.

A recent blog posting from The House Designers states that “Many homeowners assume it is expensive, when actually it averages 1 percent of the total building cost during new construction. Other misconceptions are that they are unappealing and will accidentally discharge. ”

They also follow up their quick posting with a longer article discussing the efforts of the Home Fire Sprinkler Coalition, USFA and American Fire Sprinkler Association.  It is a positive sign from a member of the construction community.