| Description |
222 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm. |
| Series |
The Shelter Library of Building Books ; 7 |
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Shelter Library of Building Books ; no. 7.
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| Contents |
Island home -- Shake cottage on Vancouver Island -- Vin's small home -- Mike & Sierra's home in the California foothills -- Surfer's paradise -- Wayne and Nancy's Hawaiian Island cabin -- Digger Mountain cabin -- Timber home along Canada's sunshine coast -- Small timber frame home in German forest -- Small home in Lithuania -- Cabin in the California woods -- Off-the-grid cabin in California woods -- Wooden home on California coast -- The leafspring -- Octagonal cedar home in Pacific Northwest -- SunRay Kelley's two-story treehouse in the woods -- Sally's beach cabin -- French teenager builds cabin in the woods -- Wooden yurt in the English woods -- Small woodland home in Southwest England -- Stone home in Southern Spain -- Small straw bale home in Arizona -- Lobelia : $35,000 straw bale home in Missouri -- Tom and Satomi Lander's natural home -- Timber frame / straw bale home on a Scottish island -- Timber frame / straw bale home in Missouri -- The farmhouse at Hickory Highlands -- Hybrid natural home in Colorado High Desert -- Hobbit house in Colorado Canyon -- Rob & Jaki Roy's two-story, cordwood, lakeside home -- Sasha's earthen dome in the High Desert -- Sun-filled, old adobe home in New Mexico -- Round, straw-clay home in Vermont -- Cave home in New Zealand -- Earthbag home in Turkey -- Solar-powered quonset hut home in Northern California -- Homestead of recycled materials in Quebec -- Karl's round house on a Scottish island -- Mark & Meg's half-acre California coastal farm -- Slow boat farm on Washington Island -- Small home in California foothills -- River house -- Debt-free in Washington -- The little red-haired girl in the little yellow house -- Small home in Texas -- Small home in Missouri -- Fixing up a 100-year-old farmhouse in Indiana -- Small home in Minnesota -- Aunt Lillie's house -- Rose's small farmhouse in North Carolina -- Small home in the big woods of North Carolina -- Owner-builder small cabin in North Carolina -- Small home in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia -- Family rebuilds Adirondack lodge -- Solo builder of small homes in New England -- Small home in remote Vermont woods -- Living small in southern Vermont -- A two-family home in San Francisco -- fixing up an old, small home in LA -- Cabin in the woods in Brooklyn -- Urban cabin that harvests sun, rain, and shade -- The tin shed -- Between hills -- life in a converted Kentucky garage -- Small homes in cities and towns -- Small home, small motel in British Columbia -- Old-timey, off-grid caravan -- Houseboat in Southwest England -- The nesthouse in Scotland. |
| Summary |
"From the publishers of a popular series of building books comes Small Homes, which is highly relevant for these times. Getting smaller, rather than larger. Some 75 builders share their knowledge of building and design, with artistic, practical, and/or economical homes in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, France, Germany, Spain, New Zealand and Lithuania. This is the seventh in a series of highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The series, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include Shelter, Shelter II (1978), Home Work (2004), Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008), Tiny Homes (2012), and Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Each of these books has over 1,000 photos, and each 2-page spread is carefully laid out with respect to balance of graphics and clarity of information. A running theme with them is that people have been inspired by one book to build their own home, and this will be included in a subsequent book. For example, many of the homes in Home Work were inspired by Shelter. And so on. The underlying theme with Shelter's books, which has continued for over 40 years, is that it's possible for you to create your own home with your own hands, using natural materials. Some of these homes are in the country, some in small towns, and some in large cities"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Small houses.
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Architecture, Domestic.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Residential.
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HOUSE & HOME -- Design & Construction.
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HOUSE & HOME -- Do-It-Yourself.
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HOUSE & HOME -- Small Spaces.
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Architecture, Domestic. (OCoLC)fst00813666
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Small houses. (OCoLC)fst01121440
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Domestic architecture -- Designs and plans.
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| Genre/Form |
Illustrated works. (OCoLC)fst01423873
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Illustrated works.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Kahn, Lloyd, 1935- Small homes. Bolinas, California : Shelter Publications, 2017 9780936070698 (DLC) 2016049632 |
| ISBN |
9780936070681 (paperback) |
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0936070684 (paperback) |
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9780936070698 |
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9780936070704 |
| Standard No. |
9780936070681 52895 |
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