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In 1901, Gustav Stickley began to create the first uniquely American style of furniture and home design-known as Craftsman. Stickley's principles of home design include construction that is in harmony with its landscape, open floor plans, built-in storage, and natural lighting. He was a major influence on Frank Lloyd Wright, and he remains one of the great names in American architecture. Craftsman Homes and Bungalows showcases his work in an affordable,...
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Are you looking for creative ways to lower your energy costs, generate more of your own power, or become less reliant on the grid? Scheckel offers practical solutions for adapting solar, wind, wood gasification, biogas, and micro hydro power systems for home use.
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"Natural plasters made of clay, lime, and other materials mixed with sand are beautiful building finishes. Fun to work with, low-impact, and allowing infinite creativity, they are high performance and provide proven, centuries-long durability. Yet until now there's been no resource that has pulled together the best North American plaster recipes and how-to into one place. Essential Natural Plasters covers it all."--Back cover.
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Get organized, declutter, and find more calm in your days with this accessible, step-by-step guide to lasting order in your home sweet home. Do you feel overwhelmed, stressed, or anxious about the clutter in your home? Have you spent countless hours organizing your home only to find it all destroyed in a matter of seconds? Does it seem like you will never get organized enough? Keeping order in your home can feel like a daunting and never-ending task,...
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In August 2010, Zach Klein bought a 50-acre patch of land in upstate New York on which to a build cabin and reconnect with nature. He called it Beaver Brook. His friends, former city-dwellers, soon followed, building cabins of their own on the land they shared. CABIN PORN began as an online scrapbook created by the founders of Beaver Brook to collect inspiration for their building projects.
Featuring photos of the most remarkable handmade homes in...
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A how-to-guide for builders, contractors, caregivers and designers on designing accessible bathrooms using space planning illustrations. It helps to interpret the needs of individuals with a disability or the elderly in order to develop a workable, and cost-effective construction plan.
Safety and ease of mobility within the bathroom is highly covered, and includes details on how to adapt the Americans with Disabilities Act Guidelines (ADAAG) for residential...
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A Los Angeles-based designer explores neo-urban hippie style and visits 20 different homes across the United States decorated in this mode, interviewing the owners and discussing their aesthetic inspirations and offering ideas to those who want to decorate their own spaces. --Publisher's description.
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Tiny House: A Beginner's Guide to Minimalist Living. Building Your Small Home Guide Are you looking for financial security?
Are you curious about tiny homes?
Do you want more freedom?
Then this book is for you!
In this Tiny House: A Beginner's Guide to Minimalist Living, Building Your Small Home Guide, you'll learn all that you need to know about minimalist living and the tiny house movement. You'll find out how to get started on building your...
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TINY HOUSE LIVING
The tiny house revolution is quickly taking over the world. It consists of people from all walks of life-couples, singles, nomads, and the elderly. Small spaces have become popular because they are eco-friendly, cost-effective, and provide people with the opportunity to make their dream spaces come to life.
This book covers every detail of planning and building your tiny home, from what materials to use to ensuring functionality....
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For many, owning a home is the ultimate, goal in their life. To have a place that reflects who one is, their values, and that they can call their own is a natural dream to have. However, in today's economy, owning a house can be more difficult and unattainable than ever before, which has led many people to look at alternative means of home ownership, such as the shipping container home.
Growing in popularity in recent years, shipping container homes...
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"A classic timber frame is as practical and beautiful as it has been for centuries. In this beginner-friendly guide, veteran builder and educator Will Beemer brings the historic craft of timber framing within reach by walking you through the process of building a simple 12' x 16' structure -- a starter project large enough to serve as a cabin, workshop, or studio -- that can be modified to suit your needs. Along the way, you'll learn what makes...
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Pete Nelson, the world's best-known treehouse designer and builder, wants to put readers in trees-his motto is, "get 'er done, so you can BE in a TREE.†? His new book is a comprehensive source of inspiration and practical information about treehouse design and construction. To that end, he shares the basics of treehouse construction with his own recent projects as case studies. Using photographs taken especially for this project along with diagrams,...
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Shipping container homes
Shipping container homes are a newly popular method of sustainable housing. Essentially it involves taking a new (or used) shipping container, and turning it into a home, office, or other type of liveable space!
There are a huge range of designs that can be created, and multiple shipping containers can be joined together to create a truly unique structure.
These shipping container homes are not only a lot cheaper than...
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Inside this book, you will discover exactly what shipping container homes are, what the benefits are, what permits you need to build one, and how to get started.
Utilizing shipping containers in your building design doesn't only provide you will a unique looking house. They can also reduce cost, building time, and even make your home even more, eco-friendly! This book takes you step by step through the building process, and highlights the different...
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If you dream of living in a tiny house, or creating a getaway in the backwoods or your backyard, you'll love this gorgeous collection of creative and inspiring ideas for tiny houses, cabins, forts, studios, and other microshelters. Created by a wide array of builders and designers around the United States and beyond, these 59 unique and innovative structures show you the limits of what is possible. Each is displayed in full-color photographs accompanied...
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Continuing the Instructables series with Skyhorse Publishing, a mammoth collection of projects has been selected and curated for this special best-of volume of Instructables. The guides in this book cover the entire spectrum of possibilities that the popular website has to offer, showcasing how online communities can foster and nurture creativity.
From outdoor agricultural projects to finding new uses for traditional household objects, the beauty...
From outdoor agricultural projects to finding new uses for traditional household objects, the beauty...
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"The New Bohemian Handbook guides readers in beautifully simple techniques for adding good vibes and style to living spaces. Packed with hundreds of ideas for bringing positive energy to your home, the book features exercises and activities for thinking about rooms in new ways. With Justina's expert guidance, learn how to rearrange, paint, prop, and plant your way to a home that's fresh and inspiring. Uncover your "spirit environment" and learn how...
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"Earthbag construction -- building with polypropylene bags usually filled with earthen materials -- is a versatile, easy-to-master, low-impact, and highly durable form of building, suitable for structures from houses to root cellars. Containing over 75 photos and illustrations, Essential Earthbag Construction is a practical guide to this affordable method of building. Going well beyond the scope of other sources, this indispensable manual is packed...
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