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A House For Life
A House for Life: Bringing the Style of Frank Lloyd Wright into Your HomeA House for Life: Bringing the Style of Frank Lloyd Wright into Your Home by John Rattenbury
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This book expands on the concept of designing around people and his 1997 House For Life. Served as a touchstone for HouseForLife.org
Wright-Sized Houses: Frank Lloyd Wright's Solutions for Making Small Houses Feel BigWright-Sized Houses: Frank Lloyd Wright's Solutions for Making Small Houses Feel Big by Diane Maddex
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Maddex look at FLW's approach to small spaces; full of great pictures and useable ideas.
Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring DesignPatterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design by Max Jacobson
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A distilation of 10 key patterns of classic home design. Builds on the concepts introduced in the seminal text 'A Pattern Language'
The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really LiveThe Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live by Sarah Susanka
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Massively successful title about creating personal spaces in your home
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) by Christopher Alexander
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A seminal text introducing a number of suggested 'how-to' patterns of good design ranging from porches to entire neighbourhoods
The Housebuilder's Bible: An Insider's Guide to the Construction Jungle, 7th Edition: An Insider's Guide to the Construction Jungle (7th Edition)The Housebuilder's Bible: An Insider's Guide to the Construction Jungle, 7th Edition: An Insider's Guide to the Construction Jungle (7th Edition) by Mark Brinkley
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Outstanding. Mixes real world knowledge of housebuilding in the UK with actual costing indications - it is therefore vital that you make sure you get the latest edition
The Whole House Book: Ecological Building Design and Materials (Second Edition)The Whole House Book: Ecological Building Design and Materials (Second Edition) by Cindy Harris
THE title for environmental impact considerations in UK housebuilding and the associated materials
Ecohouse 2Ecohouse 2 by Sue Roaf
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The perfect companion to The Whole House book listed above
A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur BuilderA Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder by Michael Pollen
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An autobiographical insight into one mans need to build a room of his own and the journey to completion. Reads like a good novel.
Sensual Home: Liberate Your Senses and Change Your LifeSensual Home: Liberate Your Senses and Change Your Life by Ilse Crawford
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Now you have built your family centric, energy efficient dream house from low impact materials this book suggests a furnishing approach to match. The example pics are not great but the concepts are.