Not So Big Solutions for Your Home

by Sarah Susanka

Paperback, 2002

Status

Available

Call number

728.37

Publication

Taunton Press (2002), Paperback, 160 pages

Description

Sarah Susanka's Not So Big Solutions for Your Home explores practical design ideas that can transform any house into a great house that looks, works and feels right for the owner. Sarah Susanka, whose previous best-selling books showed homeowners how to appreciate and create a house that is beautiful, visually expansive and reflective of how families really live, now offers readers practical, everyday design ideas on everything from selecting a site for a new home to designing a mail-sorting space. Photographs, along with over 150 drawings from Sarah Susanka's own sketchbook, illustrate practical home design ideas for everyday living. Not So Big Solutions for Your Home is a compilation of over 30 columns written by Sarah Susanka for Fine Homebuilding magazine. -- Makes architecture and design accessible to people who are not trained in the field -- Provides a wide variety of practical, accessible, everyday solutions… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member stacyinthecity

An book about designing a house focusing on usable space rather than actual space. While the ideas were good and practical (and I'm very big on practicality), the designs were still larger than what I'd want for my house.

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LibraryThing member sapsygo

This book contains a collection of columns from Fine Homebuilding. Nothing is covered in any particular depth, but there is a lot of neat little solutions and different ways to think about common problems which make the book worthwhile.

LibraryThing member Terryfic

Should be required reading for anyone contemplating a home remodel. She encourages the reader to step back and ask, "Why do I want to remodel? What problems need to be solved?" In response to those answers, she provides several clever ideas that demonstrate good "out of the box" thinking. Ms.

Susanka's advice and ideas could save you tens of thousands of dollars - well worth the time and the price of the book.

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LibraryThing member chellerystick

I would say this is in the middle of the pack as far as Susanka's books go. I would love to see more ways of adapting these to apartments, workplaces, and other settings.

LibraryThing member kmajort

nice to see a useful book about small spaces.... as opposed to surreal dreams

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