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Title: The Big Book of Small House Designs: 75 Award-Winning Plans for Your Dream House, All 1,250 Square Feet or Less
ISBN: 1579123651
Author:
Don Metz
Catherine Tredway
Lawrence Von Banford
Kenneth R. Tremblay
Publicate Date: 2004-01-04
Publish: 2004-01-04
List Price: $14.95
Average Customer Rating: 3.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: GLASSES PLEASE
The type and drawings in this book are so small you need a magnifying glass to read it. This book might be more suited to the classroom.
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2: Colors please
When I buy a book I either want to learn or relax. In this case I wanted to learn and had to really concentrate because of the lack of pictures in it. Great plans, great book but the lack of pictures makes it difficult to read.
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3: Waste of Time
I knew the book wouldn't be a great resource but I thought it might have some reason for having been published other than the author and publisher just trying to cash in on the "not so big" / "green" trend.
There is really no redeeming quality in this book. Most of the houses are severely outdated and are poorly proportioned. Except for one or two, they don't even look designed by an architect, they just look like run-of the mill cracker boxes, some with poorly planned additions. There's no useful information on how to best economize space or anything. The "design" information is useless because the illustrations are so bad they are painful to look at. Some are so muddy, it looks as if the book were published using water damaged drawings and a broken Xerox machine.
I apologize for not editing this review, but this book has already wasted enough of my time. If you're looking for something more current, try James Grayson Trulove's 25 Houses Under 1500 Square Feet. It's more design oriented, even if does have a lot of filler. It's not a 5 star by any stretch of the imagination. At least his illustrations are legible and the photos make the book look produced by professionals that actually care about design and architecture.
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4: The cover fools you
Be warned. This book contains only 2D home plans. Their are no photos besides the one on the cover.
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5: Drawings - not pictures
The book have a lot of good ideaas for how to draw / design houses. There is a lack of pictures of the actual solutions, in order to give a good idea of how the the solutions actually work.
Jan T.
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