Living Homes

Author : Thomas J. Elpel
Publisher : HOPS Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Dwellings
ISBN : 9781892784322

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Living Homes by Thomas J. Elpel Pdf

The house of your Dreams does not have to be expensive. The key is all in the planning. How much a house costs, how it looks, how comfortable it is, how energy-efficient it is--all these things occur on paper before you pick up even one tool. A little extra time in the planning process can save you tens of thousands of dollars in construction and maintenance. That is time well spent! Living Homes takes you through the planning process to design an energy and resource efficient home that won't break the bank. Then, from the footings on up to the roof, author Thomas J. Elpel guides you through the nuts and bolts of construction for slipform stone masonry, tilt-up stone walls, log home construction, building with strawbales, making your own terra tile floors, windows and doors, solar water systems, masonry heaters, framing, plumbing, greywater, septic systems, swamp filters, concrete-fly ash countertops, painting and more. Living Homes was completely re-organized and revised for the new sixth edition, based on five additional years of building experience with low-cost, high efficiency construction methods. Get the latest ideas on how to build a high-performance house that will stand the test of time! The sixth edition includes fifteen pages of new material covering the latest stone masonry tips, plus revised and expanded tips and techniques throughout the book.

Author : Suzi Moore,Suzi Moore McGregor,Nora Burba Trulsson
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0811862852

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Living Homes by Suzi Moore,Suzi Moore McGregor,Nora Burba Trulsson Pdf

Profiles more than twenty residences and other structures built in "natural design" style with adobe, rammed earth, straw bale, and reinvented materials, presenting color photos and the stories of their architects and owners.

Author : Marion Hellweg
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783791387611

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Living in Tiny Homes by Marion Hellweg Pdf

Whether you’re looking to declutter your home, or making big plans to move into a tiny space, this book offers inspiring insights into making the most out of the square footage you have, and turning any space into a beautiful, comfortable, and efficient home. Around the world people are choosing to live small—whether it’s downsizing from a large home or converting a van into a house on wheels. This gorgeous book looks at a variety of scenarios, taking readers across the globe and inside the doors of remarkable compact homes. Interior design expert Marion Hellweg combines her years of experience with that of inveterate style bloggers to offer practical and innovative advice on interior design; storage solutions; finding adaptable, multifunctional furniture; decluttering and organizing; and, more generally, leading a mindful, eco-conscious minimalist lifestyle. Filled with mood board-type layouts that offer hundreds of great ideas, this book does more than offer an architectural survey of tiny homes—it illustrates room-by-room real world examples of how people are adopting a sustainable lifestyle that minimizes things and maximizes quality of life. Inspiring as well as practical, this book is the first step toward imagining and creating your own small happy place.

Author : BRYCE. LANGSTON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1988550580

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LIVING BIG IN A TINY HOUSE. by BRYCE. LANGSTON Pdf

Author : Bobbie Kalman
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778732282

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Homes of Living Things by Bobbie Kalman Pdf

This book introduces habitats, such as forests, grasslands, and deserts, and describes the homes of people and animals in these habitats.

Author : Sarah Susanka,Kira Obolensky
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 9781561583768

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The Not So Big House by Sarah Susanka,Kira Obolensky Pdf

Provides a review of social trends and their effect on architecture and design.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : IND:30000123233581

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Vogue Living by Anonim Pdf

This unique book of 36 spectacular houses and gardens - whose owners include Madonna, Donna Karan, Christian Louboutin and Karl Lagerfeld to name a few - draws not only on stories that have appeared in Vogue and Vogue Living over the past two decades, but also on previously unpublished images. These dazzling photographs take readers into the style-makers' private realms - bringing to life interiors and exteriors that are both inspiring and transporting. Features photographs by Mario Testino, Cecil Beaton, Annie Leibovitz and many more!

Author : Jie Li
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231538176

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Shanghai Homes by Jie Li Pdf

In the dazzling global metropolis of Shanghai, what has it meant to call this city home? In this account—part microhistory, part memoir—Jie Li salvages intimate recollections by successive generations of inhabitants of two vibrant, culturally mixed Shanghai alleyways from the Republican, Maoist, and post-Mao eras. Exploring three dimensions of private life—territories, artifacts, and gossip—Li re-creates the sounds, smells, look, and feel of home over a tumultuous century. First built by British and Japanese companies in 1915 and 1927, the two homes at the center of this narrative were located in an industrial part of the former "International Settlement." Before their recent demolition, they were nestled in Shanghai's labyrinthine alleyways, which housed more than half of the city's population from the Sino-Japanese War to the Cultural Revolution. Through interviews with her own family members as well as their neighbors, classmates, and co-workers, Li weaves a complex social tapestry reflecting the lived experiences of ordinary people struggling to absorb and adapt to major historical change. These voices include workers, intellectuals, Communists, Nationalists, foreigners, compradors, wives, concubines, and children who all fought for a foothold and haven in this city, witnessing spectacles so full of farce and pathos they could only be whispered as secret histories.

Author : Brave Kid Press,Abby Cadet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798682222148

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Kid Talk by Brave Kid Press,Abby Cadet Pdf

Life after divorce can be really tough for children. Sometimes children feel anxious and confused about living in two homes. Join Addison and her friends as they express their feelings about going back and forth between homes. The gently reassuring text in Living in Two Homes is Tough from the Kid Talk Book Series focuses on self-expression and honesty. Empower your children to speak their feelings and cope with a divorce or separation with this inclusive book. The engaging illustrations are designed to teach kids life lessons about acceptance, communication, and help them understand their feelings through a story and character they can relate to. Add, the Living In Two Homes Is Tough children's book to your home library for lifelong guidance and healthy coping. Featuring: ♥Colorful, Engaging Images ♥Inclusive Story and Language ♥Lessons on Coping With Divorce & Separation ♥Guidance Through Relatable Characters ♥Easy to Read and Understand Children are likely to adjust better to new living arrangements after separation if they feel like their input is important to their parents. This book is essential for all families, especially those who are co-parenting. Living in Two Homes is Tough shines a light on the ever-growing reality that exists in the lives of many children today. This is a great resource for parents and educators to help children cope with parental separation, breakup, or divorce, and to teach them that whether living in one home or two, they're always loved and supported. Read this book with your children to reassure them of the love you have for them and encourage them to be open with you.

Author : Paul Adamson,Marty Arbunich
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781586851842

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Eichler by Paul Adamson,Marty Arbunich Pdf

Atriums, household conveniences, and sleek styling made Eichler Homes a standard-bearer for bringing the modern home design to middle-class America. Joseph Eichler was a pioneering developer who defied conventional wisdom by hiring progressive architects to design Modernist homes for the growing middle class of the 1950s. He was known for his innovations, including "built-ins" for streamlined kitchen work, for introducing a multipurpose room adjacent to the kitchen, and for the classic atrium that melded the indoors with the outdoors. For nearly twenty years, Eichler Homes built thousands of dwellings in California, acquiring national and international acclaim. Eichler: Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream examines Eichler's legacy as seen in his original homes and in the revival of the Modernist movement, which continues to grow today. The homes that Eichler built were modern in concept and expression, and yet comfortable for living. Eichler's work left a legacy of design integrity and set standards for housing developers that remain unparalleled in the history of American building. This book captures and illustrates that legacy with impressive detail, engaging history, firsthand recollections about Eichler and his vision, and 250 photographs of Eichler homes in their prime.

Author : Jay Pitter,John Lorinc
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781770564435

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Subdivided by Jay Pitter,John Lorinc Pdf

Using Toronto as a case study, Subdivided asks how cities would function if decision-makers genuinely accounted for race, ethnicity, and class when confronting issues such as housing, policing, labor markets, and public space. With essays contributed by an array of city-builders, it proposes solutions for fully inclusive communities that respond to the complexities of a global city. Jay Pitter is a writer and professor based in Toronto. She holds a Masters in Environmental Studies from York University. John Lorinc is a Toronto-based journalist who writes about urban affairs, politics, and business. He co-edited The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood (Coach House, 2015).

Author : Margaret Forster
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448192571

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My Life in Houses by Margaret Forster Pdf

‘I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.’ So begins Margaret Forster’s journey through the houses she’s lived in, from that sparkling new council house, to her beloved London home of today. This is not a book about bricks and mortar though. This is a book about what houses are to us, the effect they have on the way we live our lives and the changing nature of our homes: from blacking grates and outside privies; to cities dominated by bedsits and lodgings; to the houses of today converted back into single dwellings. Finally, it is a gently insistent, personal inquiry into the meaning of home.

Author : Jerry Ditto,Lanning Stern
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811808460

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Eichler Homes by Jerry Ditto,Lanning Stern Pdf

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Faculty of Architecture Gallery, Architecture II Building (main floor), the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, September 10-28, 1998.

Author : Debbie and Michael Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10
Category : Bed and breakfast accommodations
ISBN : 1539014649

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Your Keys, Our Home by Debbie and Michael Campbell Pdf

If you've ever dreamed of casting off your worldly possessions and traveling to your heart's content, this story about two intrepid seniors will inspire you no matter your age. Michael and Debbie Campbell felt they had one more adventure in them before considering retirement in the traditional sense, so they filled two rolling duffel bags with life's essentials (including their own pillows) and hit the road. Three years later, having sold their home in Seattle, their "Senior Nomad" lifestyle has no end in sight. Ride along as they share tales of living full-time in Airbnbs in over 50 countries and pay tribute to the many hosts who not only helped them live daily life, but also offered unique opportunities to experience their cities. From the barber's chair in Dublin and the dentist's chair in Split, to a wild motorcycle ride in Athens, a peek behind the Soviet Curtain in Transnistria, and the demise of a chicken for dinner in Marrakech, hosts made the Campbell's dream of adventure come true. Discover how Debbie and Michael find their next Airbnb, how they get there, and the many ways they enjoy their new city just as the locals do. Learn their tips and tricks for using Airbnb and how they get the most out of each stay, all while spending little more than they would have spent settled into their rocking chairs in Seattle.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Dwellings
ISBN : UCR:31210023590787

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1980 Census of Housing by Anonim Pdf