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The Not So Big House (Expanded) (Paperback)

Creating the Not So Big House by Susan Susanka This book contains good ideas for turning cold, overwhelming spaces into warm, inviting rooms. It also shows how space can be small but beautiful and visually expansive. Susanka has tapped into the principles that Frank Lloyd Wright used in his 'Usonian' Houses and has presented them in a very clear, beautifully illustrated format. 258 pages PB

Edition: Abridged, Audio CD, Random House Audio

"Written by Sarah Susanka, with Kira Obolensky. Is it a surprise that people gather in the kitchen? It shouldn't be; human beings are drawn to intimacy, and this book proposes housing ideas that serve our spiritual needs while protecting our pocketbook. Commonsense building ideas combined with gorgeous home design. 199 pages, hardback."

When describing a favorite room in the house, do you find yourself using terms such as "expansive," "formal," and "spacious"--a marble foyer or a formal dining room perhaps? Or do the words "cozy," "intimate," and "warm" come to mind--a cheery little breakfast nook or a window seat complete with plenty of pillows and a breathtaking view? More than likely, you--like thousands of other homeowners--are drawn to the more personal spaces in your home, where comfort, beauty, and efficiency meet...

ISBN-10: 1561583766 ISBN-13: 9781561583768. Edition: .

This book focuses on the tangible and somtimes intangible details that bring an otherwise ordinary home to life. Incorporating such details as dropped celings, built-in shelves, poskcet doors, window seats, and well-placed alcoves infueses a home with the character of its owners and conveys a uniqueness that's missing in many homes built or remodeled today. Featuring 23 homes from Rhode Island to California.

Drawing on the Japanese ideogram katei meaning unified home and garden, Messervy (columnist for Fine Gardening magazine) and Susanka (author of The Not So Big House) offer a "photographic dictionary of ideas" for integrating smaller homes with their sites. Each provides a summary of her "homescaping" design philosophy. Color photos by Grey Crawford and landscape design plans illustrate ways to accomplish this integration. The guide includes a list of the featured US architects and landscape designers...

In 1938, Life magazine commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design a dream home for America. The result was the Usonian house, an enduring model of modest-sized residential architecture. Now, Sarah Susanka, architect and principal with Mulfinger, Susanka, Mahady & Partners, the firm selected to design the 1999 Life Dream House, brings Wright's same common-sense, human-scale design principles to our generation. Consider which rooms in your house you use and enjoy most, and you have a sense of the essential...

Ten years ago, Sarah Susanka started a revolution in home design with a deceptively simple message: quality should always come before quantity. Now, the book that celebrated that bold declaration is back in a special anniversary edition. In this landmark home design book, America's superstar residential architect provides homeowners the guidance and language to get what they want: a house that is better not bigger and one that emphasizes comfort, beauty, and a high level of detail no matter how small...

In "Inside The Not So Big House," Susanka and Vassallo focus their lens on the tangible and sometimes intangible details that bring an otherwise ordinary home to life. Incorporating such details as dropped ceilings, built-in shelves, pocket doors, window seats, and well-placed alcoves infuses a home with the character of its owners and conveys a uniqueness that's mising in many homes built or remodeled today. From Rhode Island to San Diego, the 23 homes featured here illustrate exceptional attention...

A best-selling guide to smaller, simpler dwellings that serve both spirtitual and practical needs. Includes floor plans and over 200 color photographs. (REF17, $22.95)

Susan Susanka, award-winning architect and best-selling author, has launched a revolution in residential architecture and changed the way we think about -- and live in -- our homes. Her books have inspired over a million readers and received national media attention from The Oprah Winfrey Show and USA Today . Susanka was named as a top newsmaker in 2000 by Newsweek and as an innovator in American culture in 1998 by U.S. News & World Report.

On this book, I join forces with another visionary, Sarah. As landscape designer and architect, we make a good team. From our different perspectives, Sarah and I craft a language that speaks to the heart of design and gives our readers the ability to listen to their environment from a spatial point of view. Together, we seek to explain through words, photographs, and drawings, how and why good design works for us all, so that we can better attune our properties to fit our needs, as well as our longing...

Two books in one -- a great value. Personalized. Well-crafted. Thoughtfully designed. These are the attributes of a Not So Big home -- both inside and out -- as well as this book that combines both volumes under one convenient cover. It provides the practical advice and creative solutions you need to personalize your home and make it more functional and an expression of how you really live.

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Best-selling author of The Not So Big House Sarah Susanka teams up with architectural design writer Marc Vassallo to expand upon the message that has resonated with over a million homeowners and builders across the country: opting for personalized, well-crafted, thoughtfully designed spaces over superfluous square footage results in a home that comforts and nourishes those who live there. Susanka and Vassallo focus their lens on the tangible and sometimes intangible details that bring an otherwise...

Bestselling author Susanka ("The Not So Big House") teams up with architectural design writer Vassallo to expand upon the message that has resonated with over a million homeowners: opting for personalized, well-crafted, thoughtfully designed spaces over s