Find beautiful decorating books for your collectionHouse Beautiful Small Spaces
by House Beautiful Magazine
Most of us want more space, and House Beautiful helps with advice and fresh ideas to maximize space. By creating storage, using color and pattern, creating the illusion of space, editing possessions, and making walls disappear, this book shows exactly how to make the most of your home, whatever its size.
The New Cottage Home: A Tour of Unique American Dwellings
by Jim Tolpin
A book the values simplicity, honesty, and conservative elegance in home building. Lovely photographs take readers on a tour of nearly three dozen beautiful cottages, showing that smaller homes have charm, interest, wit, and style.
The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live
by Sarah Susanka
Subtitled: "A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live". Starting with the premise that "bigger is not better", the author (LIFE Magazine Architect of the Year) takes a fresh look at living in newer homes. She guides us in rethinking spaces, our needs, budgets, and storage, with sections on living in smaller spaces, lifestyles (of the not-so-rich), dreams, designs for kids, and houses of the future. Includes floorplans of some wonderful designs.
Big Ideas for Small Spaces
by Christine Brun Abdelnour
Floorplans, furnishings, and design for smaller homes including condos, lofts, apartments, and cottages.
Creating the Not So Big House: Insights and Ideas for the New American Home
by Sarah Susanka
As humongous homes start to fill every available plot of land, some of us may yearn for a simpler, less ostentatious lifestyle. This book looks at 25 homes and the techniques that were used in creating liveable smaller homes, filled with spaces that are cozy, useful, and functional.
Compact Living
by Jane Graining
While some ideas in this book may prove too elaborate for some, there are lessons and tips on creating style in modest digs. A bright orange and yellow cover will appeal to the young, or young-at-heart.
Designing for Small Homes
by Dylan Landis, Donna Warner
While not for efficiency apartment dwellers, this book may give some inspiration to owners of smaller homes, showing that cozy spaces can be stylish.
DK Home Design Workbook: One-Room Living
by Katz, Sylvia
Whether you live in one room or 10 this book provides useful tools. First, it includes graph paper and detailed directions on measuring and drawing your space. Then, a questionnaire helps you define needs and wants. And finally, photos of design options and some fascinating 3-D diagrams illustrate her ideas. A worthwhile book.
Little Retreats: More Than Thirty Cozy Getaway Spaces for the Seaside
by Jane Tidbury, Peter Aprahamian
A wide variety of unusual getaways are pictured in this book. Some are downright wild, though most will be able to find photos that embody their own perfect retreat. A good overview of styles and possibilities for anyone planning to own a vacation home.
Making the Most of Small Spaces
by Anoop Parikh
Living in New York in digs that are all of 350 square feet? If so, you may need a bit of encouragement, inspiration, and a few practical tips. This book offers all of these. Take a look!
New Small Homes
by Aurora Cuito
Architects make their living on problem solving and making a statement. This book offers both in the projects that are pictured. Though not every idea is and easy "do-it-yourself" solution, there are many great ideas for designing spaces within small homes.
The New American Cottage
by James Grayson Trulove, Il Kim
Contemporary design grows up to shows that bigger isn't always better. You'll love this book if you are thinking about building and want a unique and wonderful home that's just the right size.
Terence Conran Small Spaces: Inspiring Ideas and Creative Solutions
by Terence Conran
The cool aqua niche on the book jacket will draw you in to these techniques and solutions for dealing with reduced square footage.
]Studio Apartments : Big Ideas for Small Spaces
by James Grayson Trulove, Il Kim
Most apartment dwellers won't have the budget to accomplish similar transformations, but they can dream can't they? See 24 apartments made over by architects and designers in mainly contemporary, minimalist styles.
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