 | A House for Life: Bringing the Style of Frank Lloyd Wright into Your Home by John Rattenbury
Buy new: £21.24 / Used from: £8.28 This book expands on the concept of designing around people and his 1997 House For Life. Served as a touchstone for HouseForLife.org
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 | Wright-sized Houses: Frank Lloyd Wright's Solutions for Making Small Houses Feel Big by Diane Maddex
Buy new: £11.47 / Used from: £7.99 Maddex look at FLW's approach to small spaces; full of great pictures and useable ideas.
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 | Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design by Max Jacobson
Buy used from: £5.18 A distilation of 10 key patterns of classic home design. Builds on the concepts introduced in the seminal text 'A Pattern Language'
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 | The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live by Sarah Susanka
Buy new: £11.09 / Used from: £4.17 Massively successful title about creating personal spaces in your home
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 | A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series) by Christopher Alexander
Buy new: £28.71 / Used from: £24.43 A seminal text introducing a number of suggested 'how-to' patterns of good design ranging from porches to entire neighbourhoods
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 | The Housebuilder's Bible: An Insider's Guide to the Construction Jungle, 7th Edition by Mark Brinkley
Buy new: £16.96 / Used from: £5.99 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
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 | 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
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 | Ecohouse 2 by Sue Roaf PhD
Buy used from: £13.44 The perfect companion to The Whole House book listed above
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 | A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder by Michael Pollen
Buy used from: £16.87 An autobiographical insight into one mans need to build a room of his own and the journey to completion. Reads like a good novel.
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 | Sensual Home: Liberate Your Senses and Change Your Life by Ilse Crawford
Buy new: £6.02 / Used from: £0.01 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.
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