Download or read book The Tiny House Revolution written by Michael Holtby and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Large in Small Spaces Homeownership is the "American dream," and it's quite apparent that we are comfortable with dreaming big. Americans have always built the largest homes on the planet. Recently, however, there has been a quiet undercurrent bucking that trend. Some have questioned what all of this extra space is really buying us (apart from a larger mortgage). Some among us are wondering if there isn't a better way of living out there. The Tiny House Revolution Inside, you'll learn all about Tiny Houses and the lifestyle that comes with them. Learn "What You Need versus What You want. Explore the Benefits of Living Small. Discover the 9 Ways a Tiny House Can Change Your Life. You'll find all that, and so much more. Written by Amazon Best-Selling author Michael Holtby, The Tiny House Revolution opens up a whole new way of living: smart, economical and revolutionary!
Download or read book Tiny House Basics written by Joshua Engberg and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small, simple, sustainable: Tips and tricks for living the tiny house lifestyle! Tiny houses are skyrocketing in popularity, and in this book campers, off roaders, and tiny house living experts Shelley and Joshua Engberg show how you can join the revolution. Learn to downsize without giving up everything you hold dear—with tips on how your life can still be comfortable and entertaining in a tiny house living environment. You’ll learn about: How to maintain a good relationship in a small spacePractical downsizing for everyoneSmall space living with petsThe pros and cons of off grid living and on grid livingHow to make your small space feel bigKeeping your small space feeling fresh with practical storage solutions and design tipsEquipping your space for entertainingAccordion/bi-fold style windowsHow downsizing and simplifying your life will allow you more freedom and time
Download or read book Backdoor Revolution written by Kol Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through case studies, expert interviews, firsthand anecdotes, images, and data analysis, Backdoor Revolution reveals the opportunities, challenges, and best practices of ADU development for homeowners, including costs, financing, design, zoning barriers, and regulatory loopholes.
Download or read book The Tiny House Movement written by Tracey Harris and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tiny House Movement: Challenging Consumer Culture features in-depth interviews with movement residents, builders, and advocates, as well as the author’s insights from her fieldwork of living tiny. In it, we learn how the movement is challenging consumerism, overwork, and environmental destruction and facilitating a more meaningful understanding of home. This book highlights that the tiny house movement is more than a lifestyle choice and that the movement challenges the consumerist lifestyle. In Canada and the United States, we are taught that bigger is better and that constant growth in our personal wealth, accumulation, and in the economy is a sign of our success. We sacrifice well-being and life satisfaction because of our relationship with ‘stuff.’ This leads to personal debt and unsustainability in our relationships, communities, and the environment. This is the first book to examine the tiny house movement as a challenge to consumer culture by demonstrating its potential to offer individual, collective, and societal change.
Download or read book The Big Tiny written by Dee Williams and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part how-to, part personal memoir, The Big Tiny is an utterly seductive meditation on the benefits of slowing down, scaling back, and appreciating the truly important things in life. More than ten years ago, a near-death experience abruptly reminded sustainability advocate and pioneer Dee Williams that life is short. So, she sold her sprawling home and built an eighty-four-square-foot house—on her own, from the ground up. Today, Williams can list everything she owns on one sheet of paper, her monthly housekeeping bills amount to about eight dollars, and it takes her about ten minutes to clean the entire house. Adapting a new lifestyle left her with the ultimate luxury—more time to spend with friends and family—and gave her the freedom to head out for adventure at a moment’s notice, or watch the clouds and sunset while drinking a beer on her (yes, tiny) front porch.
Download or read book The Not So Big House written by Sarah Susanka and published by Taunton Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a review of social trends and their effect on architecture and design.
Download or read book Building Small written by David Stiles and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live large by building small! Do you daydream about downsizing your living space? Or perhaps you long for a more eco-friendly and sustainable way of life. The tiny house movement continues to gain popularity as more and more people look to simplify their lives and reconnect with nature. Building Small is your key to joining the tiny house revolution with designs for homes as well as a range of backyard buildings including workspaces and sheds. There's tons of practical how-to construction advice including best practices, common pitfalls and tips for the do-it-yourself carpenter. Within these pages you'll find: • Complete plans for seven tiny houses • Strategies for outfitting your tiny house with lighting, water, heating and waste removal • Ideas for floor layout and interior design • Success stories and inspirational photos of tiny homes Whether you're considering a timber-framed cottage or a modular cube-style home, Building Small offers a wide range of approaches for planning and building your small structure.
Download or read book The Small House Book written by Jay Shafer and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Grand Domestic Revolution written by Dolores Hayden and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1982-06-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book that is full of things I have never seen before, and full of new things to say about things I thought I knew well. It is a book about houses and about culture and about how each affects the other, and it must stand as one of the major works on the history of modern housing." - Paul Goldberger, The New York Times Book Review Long before Betty Friedan wrote about "the problem that had no name" in The Feminine Mystique, a group of American feminists whose leaders included Melusina Fay Peirce, Mary Livermore, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman campaigned against women's isolation in the home and confinement to domestic life as the basic cause of their unequal position in society.The Grand Domestic Revolution reveals the innovative plans and visionary strategies of these persistent women, who developed the theory and practice of what Hayden calls "material feminism" in pursuit of economic independence and social equality. The material feminists' ambitious goals of socialized housework and child care meant revolutionizing the American home and creating community services. They raised fundamental questions about the relationship of men, women, and children in industrial society. Hayden analyzes the utopian and pragmatic sources of the feminists' programs for domestic reorganization and the conflicts over class, race, and gender they encountered. This history of a little-known intellectual tradition challenging patriarchal notions of "women's place" and "women's work" offers a new interpretation of the history of American feminism and a new interpretation of the history of American housing and urban design. Hayden shows how the material feminists' political ideology led them to design physical space to create housewives' cooperatives, kitchenless houses, day-care centers, public kitchens, and community dining halls. In their insistence that women be paid for domestic labor, the material feminists won the support of many suffragists and of novelists such as Edward Bellamy and William Dean Howells, who helped popularize their cause. Ebenezer Howard, Rudolph Schindler, and Lewis Mumford were among the many progressive architects and planners who promoted the reorganization of housing and neighborhoods around the needs of employed women. In reevaluating these early feminist plans for the environmental and economic transformation of American society and in recording the vigorous and many-sided arguments that evolved around the issues they raised, Hayden brings to light basic economic and spacial contradictions which outdated forms of housing and inadequate community services still create for American women and for their families.
Download or read book Tiny House Living written by Ryan Mitchell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiny House, Large Lifestyle! Tiny homes are popping up across America, captivating people with their novel approach not only to housing, but to life. Once considered little more than a charming oddity, the tiny house movement continues to gain momentum among those who thirst for a simpler, "greener," more meaningful life in the face of society's "more is better" mindset. This book explores the philosophies behind the tiny house lifestyle, helps you determine whether it's a good fit for you, and guides you through the transition to a smaller space. For inspiration, you'll meet tiny house pioneers and hear how they built their dwellings (and their lives) in unconventional, creative and purposeful ways. They'll invite you in, show you around their cozy abodes, and share lessons they learned along the way. Inside you'll find everything you need to design a tiny home of your own: • Worksheets and exercises to help you home in on your true needs, define personal goals, and develop a tiny house layout that's just right for you. • Practical strategies for cutting through clutter and paring down your possessions. • Guidance through the world of building codes and zoning laws. • Design tricks for making the most of every square foot, including multi-function features and ways to maximize vertical space. • Tours of 11 tiny houses and the unique story behind each. Tiny House Living is about distilling life down to that which you value most...freeing yourself from clutter, mortgages and home maintenance...and, in doing so, making more room in everyday life for the really important things, like relationships, passions and community. Whether you downsize to a 400-square-foot home or simply scale back the amount of stuff you have in your current home, this book shows you how to live well with less.
Download or read book Greenmoxie written by Fotheringham Nikki and published by Greenmoxie. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We take you through your home, office and garden and show you how to do just about everything in a more eco-friendly way. From upcycling projects you can do with your kids, to making your own make-up and everything in between, this book is a comprehensive guide for those who want to live a leaner, greener and healthier life. Make awesome stuff, save the planet, have fun & save money!
Download or read book Small House Tokyo written by and published by DH Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2008 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a simple collection of beautiful full-color photos of interiors and exteriors, Small House Tokyo provides would-be small property owners with a plethora of tips and suggestions on how to make the most out of what they've got.
Download or read book Building Small written by David Stiles and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Live large by building small! Do you daydream about downsizing your living space? Or perhaps you long for a more eco-friendly and sustainable way of life. The tiny house movement continues to gain popularity as more and more people look to simplify their lives and reconnect with nature. Building Small is your key to joining the tiny house revolution with designs for homes as well as a range of backyard buildings including workspaces and sheds. There's tons of practical how-to construction advice including best practices, common pitfalls and tips for the do-it-yourself carpenter. Within these pages you'll find: • Complete plans for seven tiny houses • Strategies for outfitting your tiny house with lighting, water, heating and waste removal • Ideas for floor layout and interior design • Success stories and inspirational photos of tiny homes Whether you're considering a timber-framed cottage or a modular cube-style home, Building Small offers a wide range of approaches for planning and building your small structure.
Download or read book Tiny House Designing Building Living written by Andrew Morrison and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have what it takes to live tiny? Do you dream of simplifying your life, freeing up your financial resources and ditching all of the clutter in your life? Learn the ins and outs of what it really takes to achieve the dream of designing, building and living in a tiny house of 400 square feet or less! Tiny house professionals, Gabriella and Andrew Morrison, have been involved in the trade for over 20 years, helping others to construct their own tiny homes. They have instilled all of their expertise and firsthand experience into this newly updated guide. Tiny House Designing, Building & Living is the one-stop manual into the innovative concept of minimalist living. There are dozens of helpful images and a full-color insert displaying different varieties of tiny houses to help you conceptualize your dream. In this newly updated guide you'll discover: • Advice on how to embrace the tiny house lifestyle! • How to design and build a house that's an ideal fit for your needs. • The variations of foundation types, financing, insurance and legal standards. • Building techniques, must-have utilities, off-the-grid living and home placement. • Inspiration for functional décor and storage. • Three tiny house floor plans with detailed illustrations!
Download or read book Small House Living Australia written by Catherine Foster and published by Viking. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small House Living Australia features 21 small, inspiring Australian homes. Some are clever additions onto tight urban sites: others are tranquil weekenders in deep countryside - what all have in common is a shared belief that good architectural design principles make even the smallest of architectural and ecological footprints possible. With land ever more expensive, growing environmental pressures and an increasing number of small households, architects and designers are responding with great ingenuity to produce both practical and cost-effective buildings, and all the while never sacrificing the most essential of human needs - a beautiful home. The houses you will discover in Small House Living Australia are celebrations in built form of lives lived well, with less.
Download or read book Tiny House Basics written by Joshua Engberg and published by Mango. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Perfect Guide to Little SpaceLiving #1 Best Seller in Small Homes& Cottages "Joshua and Shelley get youthinking about what you can do to live a little simpler, even if you're notbuilding a tiny house."―Mario Soto, Tiny HouseMD. With this tiny homes idea book, learnhow to redefine what a house is and master organization, location, andhappiness to make the best of your littlespace. You'll want to live ina mini house after reading thisbook. Tiny House Basics is anadventure in off-grid living. In their debut book, mini house living expertsShelley and Joshua Engberg show how you can join the revolution to downsize withoutgiving up everything you hold dear. As avid campers and off roaders, togetherthey help you enter the world of comfortable and entertaining smallspaces. Learn the best tips and tricks toowning tiny homes. Whether it's cottage-style smallhouses or a mini getaway house, Tiny HouseBasics makes tiny house plans practical and accessible.With advice easily applicable to any small home, including spaces likeapartments and studios, this micro living book turns any little space into themini house of your dreams. Inside, find advice onsmall home interior design andlearn: How to maintain a goodrelationship in a little space The pros and consof off-grid living and on-grid living How to makeyour small space feel big Practical storagesolutions and design tips Small space living withpets If you're looking forways to ramp up your little space, coffee table books for tiny homes, or smallmodern house gifts--like Tiny House Designing, Building,& Living; Small SpaceStyle; or The Little Book of LivingSmall--then you will love Tiny HouseBasics.
Download or read book Tiny Houses written by James Clark and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiny Houses ... Join the Movement Today! Have you ever thought about what it would be like living small, but luxuriously? Not sure where to start, or how to the process of engineering your own Tiny House would look like? This book will give you the steps and strategies you need to start living a tiny life! If you want to learn the steps you need to take to see your tiny house become a reality quickly and easily, then you must get this book now. This book will explain important facts, and considerations, regarding the building process of your Tiny House. It doesn't contain any irrelevant information and is set up for your success. Each page holds valuable information, instructions, and examples. After reading this book you'll be clear on what type of tiny house best suits you, how your building process will look like, your constraints, utilities you'll include and other Tiny House design elements. Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... Discover what a Tiny House is and if a mobile or stationary works best for you. Learn about the up and coming Tiny House movement. The Essential steps for engineering your Tiny House. 20 Space Hacks to Living Big in Your Tiny House Frequently Asked Questions Chapter Resource chapter for Tiny House Design plans and Much More!
