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.
Presents floor plans, section drawings, elevations, and perspectives for seventy-five small houses of various styles, most of which incorporate some energy-saving feature, selected from several competitions among architects and designers.
Smaller homes can provide substantial savings in tax, building, heating, maintenance, and repair costs, with reduced ecological impact. Build the small home of your dreams by doing all or part of the work yourself.
Choosing a new house design is exciting, but it’s also difficult. The Big Book of Small Home Plans, 2nd Edition makes it easy!
Provides a review of social trends and their effect on architecture and design.
Small and Tiny House Plans Design Book - Small home plans + granny flat plans in Metric and Feet and Inches Includes: - Small & Tiny House Plans- Stunning Designs- 2 Bedroom Designs- Modern and Country Designs- Australian Designs- Plans for ...
This book features over 500 unique house plans, homes from 1,300 to 11,000 sq. ft, 38 different designers and architects with matching landscape plans.
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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.
Small houses are the big news in home design these days.
Over 360 plans to help you find and build your single-story dream home Over 250 color photos of finished 1-story homes, including a selection of interiors Plans from top architects and designers from all over North America Wide variety of ...