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Cabins and Cottages

Time-Life Books.
Format: Book

Cabins and cottages (Home repair and improvement) [Jan 01, 1978] Time-Life Books. Your pocket guide to making repairs and renovations in your weekend getaway. Strengthen a weak floorboard in the deck, weatherproof the windows, or make basic repairs to the furnace.
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Microshelters: 59 Creative Cabins, Tiny Houses, Tree Houses, and Other Small Structures

Derek Diedricksen - Storey Books
Format: Print book

If you dream of living in a tiny house, or creating a getaway in the backwoods or your backyard, you'll love this gorgeous collection of creative and inspiring ideas for tiny houses, cabins, forts, studios, and other microshelters. Created by a wide array of builders and designers around...
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My Cool Shed: An Inspirational Guide to Stylish Hideaways and Workspaces

Jane Field-Lewis - Pavilion Books
Format: Book

More coolness in the style of My Cool Caravan and My Cool Campervan, the 35 sheds in this stylish collection include small cabins, garden rooms, beach huts, modern architectural mini masterpieces, and other mini spaces given purpose by their owners to pursue their hobbies, careers, creative...
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Ultimate Guide to House Framing

John D Wagner - Creative Homeowner
Format: Paperback

Ultimate Guide to House Framing, 3rd Edition, leads homeowners through the steps of building a structure by means of platform framing, the most popular style of framing in use today. The book also covers the latest in eco-friendly materials as well as green framing techniques. Ultimate...
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Everything You Must Know When Building Your Country Home

Homer Emery
Format: Book

If you are planning to build or buy a home in the country, this book helps you avoid some real headaches. Learn the key questions to ask when considering your site and choosing your contractors and see how pesticides, endangered species and other environmental factors affect your building...
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Affordable Living

Sunset Books
Format: Book

Planning and building a house is one of life's most creative and rewarding challenges. Whether you're seriously considering building a new home or you're dreaming about it, this book offers a wealth of inspiration and information to help you get started.
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Nice House

Samuel G. White - The Monacelli Press
Format: Hardcover

“White's project descriptions are lucid, brief and hype-free, and they come stocked with floor plans. He describes terrain contours, materials and palette choices and circulation patterns…This is a practical yet mouthwatering and aspirational study of architects helping...
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Houses and Apartments Under 1000 Square Feet

Yuri Gallardo - Firefly Books
Format: Print book

A showcase of the best in contemporary compact residential architecture. The world is becoming more urbanized and densely populated. There is a virtually inexhaustible demand that is pushing up housing prices. Urban land is more precious. As well, changes in family structure, more single-person...
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Cottage: America's Favorite Home Inside and Out

M Caren Connolly
Format: Book

The humble cottage offers a place of calming retreat and the opportunity to express a proud sense of individuality. In this timeless photographic treasury, the authors shine light on three charming characteristics that unify all cottages: a connection to nature, an intimately scaled design,...
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Home Plan Doctor: The Essential Companion for Anyone Buying a Home Design Plan

Larry W. Garnett - Storey Publishing, LLC
Format: Paperback

Every new house begins with a dream—and a home plan. But it can be terrifying to commit a lifetime of savings to a two-dimensional drawing that's difficult to interpret and visualize. Will the space meet your needs? Is the plan well-designed? Will it really turn out to be your...
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Lowe's Best-Selling House Plans

Creative Homeowner Press. - Creative Homeowner
Format: Book

Best-Selling House Plans offers readers 400 of our most-successful designs from leading architects and designers. Over 200 gorgeous full-color photographs allow readers to experience homes actually built from the designs, plus some stunning interior...
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Small Log Homes: Storybook Plans and Advice

Robbin Obomsawin
Format: Book

Whether you're planning a starter home or a lifelong retreat, Small Log Homes is an indispensable idea book for planning, building, and outfitting your cabin in the woods or on the prairie. Lush photographs show how log-home owners, builders, and contractors around the country have...
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A Woman's Huts and Hideaways: More than 40 She Sheds and other Retreats

Gill Heriz - Ryland
Format: Print book

Gill Heriz presents another inspirational collection of women's sheds and other small spaces. In A Woman's Huts and Hideaways, each place has its own story, a reason for being, whether it's somewhere to escape, to create, to work or just a place to "be". A bespoke...
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New Treehouses of the World

Peter Nelson - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

Since the publication of Treehouses of the World, the community of treehouse builders has grown tremendously, and many more innovative treehouses have been built around the world. In New Treehouses of the World, world-renowned treehouse designer and builder Pete Nelson takes readers on an exciting,...
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