The New Small House

Author: Katie Hutchison
Publisher: Taunton Press
ISBN: 9781631864407
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Small houses are the big news in home design these days. Discover delightful small houses and retreats from across North America. Hutchinson has organized the houses by the nature of their location (beach, rural, village, in-town/city) and includes both new construction and renovations/additions.

Big Book of Small House Designs

Author: Don Metz
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 1603762825
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
75 unique designs for attractive, efficient, environmentally friendly homes. Now available in paperback, this collection of 75 plans for small homes offers more than 500 usable blueprints and other illustrations for a variety of living spaces suitable for every environment and style, from a New England farmhouse to a sophisticated townhouse in the city to a Santa Fe ranch. The designs include site drawings, floor plans, elevation drawings, section drawings, perspective drawings, and exploded views. A brief introduction to each home describes its setting, the philosophy behind the design and its intended use, materials used, recommended landscaping, and more. Many of the homes come with money-saving and environmentally sound features such as solar panels and water heaters, wood stoves, ceiling fans, airlock entries, wind power alternatives, and natural gas heaters.

Microshelters

Author: Derek Diedricksen
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1612123546
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
If you dream of living in a tiny house, or creating a getaway in the backwoods or your backyard, you’ll love this gorgeous collection of creative and inspiring ideas for tiny houses, cabins, forts, studios, and other microshelters. Created by a wide array of builders and designers around the United States and beyond, these 59 unique and innovative structures show you the limits of what is possible. Each is displayed in full-color photographs accompanied by commentary by the author. In addition, Diedricksen includes six sets of building plans by leading designers to help you get started on a microshelter of your own. You’ll also find guidelines on building with recycled and salvaged materials, plus techniques for making your small space comfortable and easy to inhabit.

Small House Living

Author: Catherine Foster
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 9780143573357
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Showcases an inspiring collection of homes measuring less than 90m2 from around New Zealand. Family homes, baches and apartments are included in the line-up; all of them demonstrating ingenious ways to reduce space and cut costs within a design-enriched environment. Small House Living is a book in tune with the current preoccupation with creating affordable housing solutions. Anyone interested in living well with less will find inspiration in the compact yet highly considered homes featured"--Publisher information.

The Small House Book

Author: Jay Shafer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781607435648
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 197

Book Description

Tiny House

Author: Brent Heavener
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
ISBN: 0525576622
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
From the founder of the Instagram feed @TinyHouse, comes a small, chunky inspiration book filled with photographs of the smallest abodes—from vans and boats to tree houses and cabins. A die-cut cover acts as a window onto a simpler world of lighter living and sustainability that never sacrifices function or design. Imagine living debt-free in an environmentally-friendly home. No mortgage, no clutter, and boundless freedom. This is the reality and dream of people all over the world thanks to the widespread momentum of the tiny house movement in recent years. Designed to fit on the tiniest of coffee tables, this book features 250 full-color photographs of the smallest, most efficient homes around the world, with interviews, features, and smart tips straight from the homeowners. From tiny mobile homes in California, Nashville, and Minnesota to a surfer-built tree house in Washington to a school bus that has been converted to a camper in Oregon, this lookbook is packed with big inspiration.

Small House Designs

Author: Kenneth R. Tremblay
Publisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
This impressive collection of a variety of award-winning designs for small houses is accompanied by expert commentary, specific technical data, and beautiful exterior photographs.

Big House, Small House

Author: John Walsh
Publisher: Godwit Pub.
ISBN: 9781869798468
Category : Architect-designed houses
Languages : en
Pages : 429

Book Description
Sixty outstanding architect-designed new New Zealand homes. John Walsh and Patrick Reynolds are back with their third handsome New Zealand residential architecture book, which this time covers 60 projects built since 2007 and ranging from the small - baches, studios and apartments-through to the big-substantial new residences and conversions, homes with budgets to match their scale. Walsh and Reynolds have track records as New Zealand's preeminent architectural writer and photographer respectively. This time they are joined by a team of eminently well qualified contributing writers who, under John Walsh's editorial supervision, bring together a very significant survey of residential architecture endeavour in recent years. Thoughtfully written, beautifully photographed and handsomely produced, this massive book is unrivalled. Complete with plans, and enormously comprehensive, it is both a celebration and a sourcebook of New Zealand's best architectural work.

The Not So Big House

Author: Sarah Susanka
Publisher: Taunton
ISBN: 9781561583768
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Provides a review of social trends and their effect on architecture and design.

Small House Big Style

Author: Paula Marshall
Publisher: Better Homes & Gardens Books
ISBN: 9780696217456
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
Helps you make every square inch of your home work for you.