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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: - Great ideas and well writtenThis book really hit home. In Fall 2008 the wisdom of small homes is really becoming clear with our present mass economic crunch in the US. Take this book to heart and start living it. -Matt Whiting Provo, UT Rating: - Don't judge a book by it's cover!I thought the book would be more contemporary. (supposedly published in 2006) The quality of the photographs throughout look like the 70's. If these pictures aren't thirty years old, then everyone included in this book is living is some kind of time warp. It's certainly more of an alternative lifestyle book, than in interesting architecture book. Think Mother Earth News not Dwell. Think people raising ducks and building aluminum can structures, not Tumbleweed homes with modern lifestyles in tiny ... Read More 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 |