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Summary: Not a how-to, it is a guide of how you need to think about ...
Comment: The book present a different point of view than others that I have here to compare. This one help you "re-think" why small house fit your necessities, with simple design, space and materials. The book is not full read yet, but the few chapter all ready read, really represent this. If you are interest on green, alternative material house construction, I recommend read this book to find a new way of thinking and maybe, living, your new small, green and efficient new house.
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Summary: Great ideas and well written
Comment: This 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
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Summary: Don't judge a book by it's cover!
Comment: 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 spaces. Low quality, uninspired black and white photography. Eight pages of color photos in the center of the book, equally uninspired. It does include a lot of text to give you food for thought about what do we really need in a structure. Might be okay for some, but I was highly disappointed.
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Summary: Absolutely wonderful!!
Comment: This book is really great! Very enlightening. Only sorry I didn't purchase it a lot earlier!
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Summary: Funky book
Comment: Although 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 efficient living, this one's worth the purchase price.
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