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Recommended Books About Thoughtful Home Design
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Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design  By Max Jacobson, et al Why are some houses such a pleasure to visit or inhabit? This spin-off from A Pattern Language, which has been a design resource for decades, successfully answers that question. Lots of photos and sketches to illustrate fundamental considerations for the prospective new homeowner. |
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The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live
By Sarah Susanka Architect Susanka believes that the large homes being built today place too much emphasis on square footage rather than on current lifestyles. Here she shows how homes can be designed to feature "adaptable spaces open to one another, designed for everyday use." She describes how to examine occupants' lifestyles, and many other important factors. |
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the Not So Big House: Insights and Ideas for the New American Home By Sarah Susanka This follow-up features 25 new and redesigned homes thought to embody "not-so-big" principles such as shelter around activity, double-duty rooms, interior and diagonal views, variety of ceiling heights, importance of personal space, and others. |
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Inside the Not So Big House: Discovering the Details that Bring a Home to Life By Sarah Susanka Filled with wonderful ideas, this book is also a beautiful coffee table book. It’s an inside look at a truly new concept in home design in our age of teardowns and mega-mansions, a concept that smaller can be more satisfying than larger, if properly done. |
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Not So Big Solutions for Your Home By Sarah Susanka Susanka offers an eclectic mix: tips on site selection, mud room design, planning to fit specific furniture, creating a family room that works, personalizing with tile, and planning window seats, pantries, TV placement, and floor plan changes. Most of the projects are major undertakings, but several could be done inexpensively.  |
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How to Work with Architect By Gerald Lee Morosco, AIA Whe prospect of working with an architect can be daunting. What exactly is an architect? Do you really need one? How do you find a good one? What questions should you ask? How do you negotiate a contract with an architect? All of these questions and more are addressed in this indispensable guide for anyone considering remodeling an existing home or building a new home. |
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Creating the Inspired House: Discovering Your Place Called Home By John Connell With 300 color photographs, this book takes readers on walk-throughs of over 20 inspired homes across the country-large and small, new and remodeled-with the very homeowners, architects, and builders who collaborated on their creation. Each is shaped by the homeowners' personal passions. |
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The House You Build: Making Real-World Choices to Get the Home You Want By Duo Dickinson When you build on a budget, there are no right answers, only careful choices. This is the first book of architect-designed homes that presents the real costs of their construction including design fees, the Six Rules on Getting What You Want (and can afford), a broad range of house styles that accommodate a wide variety of lifestyles. |
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Prescriptions
for a Healthy House By Paula Baker-Laporte, Erica Elliott, John Banta, Lisa Flynn For people who are concerned about exposure to toxins found in conventional building materials and practices, this book shows how to design interior and exterior space, and select construction materials that enhance and promote physical well-being. |
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The Natural House: A Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Efficient, Environmental Homes By Daniel D. Chiras A tour of the construction, costs, and pros and cons of 14 natural building methods. The common goal is to create a house that is economical, energy efficient, nontoxic, soothing to the soul, kind to the environment, and pleasing to behold. In-depth information that will guide your search for the perfect sustainable dream home. |
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