The New Small House

Description

The trend toward smaller family sizes, smaller building lots, and smaller budgets is inspiring more and more people to build smaller, more environmentally and economically friendly homes. The New Small House presents a set of small house design strategies, as well as whole-house case studies, for homeowners eager to simplify, and remodelers, builders, architects, and designers looking for inspiration. You will be amazed by the ingenious and attractive designs of these 25 small homes (some less than 1,000 square feet). The houses are categorized by their location, from waterside gems to city dwellings, and include new construction and renovations featured in 275 beautiful color photographs and 30 detailed illustrations. Plus, an entire section of the book is devoted to the top ten clearly defined stratrgies for creating a great small house--borrowed view and daylight, multipurpose spaces, outdoors in and indoors out, using quality materials where it counts, and more. Think small.