Not So Big Remodeling: Tailoring Your Home for the Way You Really Live
Selected Book Details
- Hardcover
- Author: Sarah Susanka, Marc Vassallo
- Publisher: Taunton Press
- Release Date: March 2009
- ISBN-10: 156158827X
- ISBN-13: 9781561588275
- List Price: $32.00
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryMore Big Ideas from Sarah Susanka including hundreds of Not So Big ideas that can beautifully and affordably transform any home. Sometimes small changes can have a big impact. But many homeowners looking for more living space still insist on building expensive additions or completely rebuilding their home. In the latest groundbreaking step in the Not So Big revolution, Sarah Susanka and Marc Vassallo demonstrate how carefully chosen tweaks and simple additions can make a home seem much larger and more inviting. They avoid high-end architectural solutions, focusing instead on how Not So Big ideas can dramatically improve even the most modest home. The authors show readers how to think like an architect, so they can accurately assess their homes shortcomings, apply Not So Big principles to their remodeling plan, and phase in their project incrementally over time. |
Customer Reviews
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Not So Big for the rest of us!
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Finally, a Not So Big optimized for those not stick-building their own home. Not only is revamping an existing home a greener option than building new (no matter how sustainable), it's often more financially feasible. Great overall update ideas as well as practical approaches to usability and beauty.
An excellent survey of modern design challenges and solutions
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Tailor a home for the way you really live with this companion to THE NOT SO BIG HOUSE. It covers small changes that can be made in a home to change it, challenges modern remodeling wisdom to go beyond just square footage concerns, and encourages 'thinking better' for more efficiency and workability. An excellent survey of modern design challenges and solutions, this is a pick for any library catering to homeowners and apartment dwellers alike.
Sustainable remodeling
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With Not So Big Remodeling: Tailoring Your Home for the Way You Really Live Sarah Susanka and co-author Marc Vassallo employ the mantra "build better, not bigger" to present a go-to resource book on sustainable design for homeowners and architects alike.
Using her own classic Cape style house as an example Susanka offers three options for efficient remodeling: work within the existing footprint; consider a small bump-out and lastly build an appropriate addition. Often minor changes are all that are needed to fix an awkward layout or improve flow within the house and the authors always emphasize integrating the old with the new so the house is cohesive and aesthetically pleasing.
The reader is challenged to really consider the way they live within their homes and although most of the book is dedicated to making small spaces more useful Susanka also tackles large houses that are out of proportion to the human scale and offers smart solutions to make them more comfortable.
Not So Big Remodeling is glossy enough to keep on the coffee table yet packed full of plans and blueprints and I would be happy to own it for the photography alone. Many of the houses featured have beautiful natural wood trim and doors with a Craftsman feel that is immediately appealing. But there's so much more to this book than obvious visual appeal, it contains tips and ideas on every page that can be incorporated into any remodeling project - large or small - including the updating of my house.
A Great Addition to the Series
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The whole "not so big" series is wonderful. This is a great addition and especially relevant today when the McMansion trend is not as in favor. Live like royalty in your own small house!
very disappointed!
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I ordered this book with much anticipation....only to be let down when it arrived. I have her book the Not So Big House and love it and was hoping that this book would build on that one. Unfortunately it just rehashed that one and was WAY too heavy on the verbiage and preaching and light on the pictures, sketches, ideas, designs that I was looking for. Do yourself a favor and buy the Not So Big House and skip this one!!!
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