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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 728.37047 EAN: 9781592288687 ISBN: 1592288685 Label: The Lyons Press Manufacturer: The Lyons Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: September 01, 2006 Publisher: The Lyons Press Studio: The Lyons Press Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Absolutely wonderful!!This book is really great! Very enlightening. Only sorry I didn't purchase it a lot earlier! Rating:  - Funky bookAlthough most of the homes in this book take "simple," "cozy" and "energy efficient" to the extreme, I find it inspiring in terms of what's possible. I wish the photos (most are clumped together in the middle of the book) were printed alongside the story of the home they represent. It's confusing and frustrating trying to match the pictures with the correct home. But I appreciate the imagination of the people featured in the book. If you have an interest in real-life examples of energy ... Read More Rating: - Excellent and InspiringThis book is totally well prepared. And if a person is looking to modify their life to lessen the effects of the "rat race", this book will suggest excellent options that will save a person YEARS of labor and savings and costs, which can then be devoted to ???? making a better life all around ! HikerBOB Rating:  - Not well writtenI am a developer in Dubai and want to address the problem of the middle class that can't afford to even rent a house. I bouhgt this (and other) books to help me in undersdtanding how to go about it. Unfortunately this book is totally useless for what I need with no floor plans, and no description on how and what I can do to help. Tee discussion on reducing the space is fine but not suitable for me. Rating:  - For crunchy people with resources.It didn't tell me anything I didn't already know and it made a lot of blanket assumptions about people who want to live in something bigger than a garden shed. Maybe it's just that I'm an introvert, but asking me to live in a pile of people in a house with minimal privacy and elbow room is a recipe for mass murder. The house shapes and building materials are diverse, but the people featured in them, in many ways, are not. There is really only one working-class family. Most of them are ... Read More |
