Architecture Books : More Not So Big Solutions for Your Home
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- ISBN13: 9781600851483
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My wife and I are in the beginning stages of planning for a new home - and only have some general ideas of what we are looking for. I found one of Sarah Susanka's books in a local bookstore and came to Amazon to purchase this one (and others). While there is much I can say about this (and her other books), all I can offer here is that this woman is absolutely AMAZING. Her insights, style, and experience are superior to any other book like this I have found on the market. We now have 6 of her books and I'm devouring every word. If you are building a house, you must buy THIS BOOK (her others are very good too).
Useful for learning some design principle
I found both More Not So Big Solutions for Your Home and Not So Big Solutions for Your Home to be useful for helping me organize my thoughts about a new house that I am planning to have built.
Sarah provides numerous design examples and uses non-technical language to explain the architectural principles.
These are no deep books, but they are useful.
Any home design library will find this packed with new ideas
More Not So Big Solutions for Your Home offers practical solutions for homes of all sizes and consists of articles from author Sarah Susanka, written originally for Inspired Home and Fine Homebuilding magazines. It offers many solutions to common home design challenges, from determining space needed to designing a comfortable guest room and fixing a room that has imperfections built in. Any home design library will find this packed with new ideas.
 Nothing New Here
This 2010 offering from Susanka is exactly the same book as 2009's Not So Big Remodeling: Tailoring Your Home for the Way You Really Live. I bought them both. I loved "Remodeling," and studied it closely. After finishing it, I picked up this book and began to read. Imagine my disappointment when I discovered that this is the same book with a new cover and title. Well, maybe there are a few differences in the text - I wasn't going to waste time reading every word to find those few that were changed. "Remodeling" had more photographs, making it a better book, in my opinion. This one has drawings by the author, but in flipping through I did not see any I did not recognize from having read "Remodeling." I suspect some of them are drawings that copy photos from the other book. She had a co-author on "Remodeling," and his name has been dropped from this book - I cannot imagine under what rationale. If it were possible to give a book zero stars, I would have, because that is the value you will get out of this book if you have already read Susanka's other publications.
I am revising my review to respond to a comment that was left, which appears below. I did not at all base my review of this book solely on its cover. In fact, most if not all of the text is word-for-word the same as in the earlier-published book, "Remodeling." This book is not "more" not-so-big solutions, as it claims -- it is simply a rehash, in an inferior format, of the same solutions that were in "Not So Big Remodeling." I might add that another of Susanka's books on Amazon received the same criticism from another reviewer, as the one I have articulated here -- although that reviewer placed the blame primarily on Taunton Press. I only wish I had seen that review before I bought the books -- then I would have been forewarned to purchase only one of them. Don't get me wrong, I think Susanka has done some great work, in "Not So Big Remodeling," and as a thought leader. I would happily purchase another Susanka book, the next time she writes up some new ideas, or at least illustrates the "not so big" set of ideas by applying them to a new set of houses. This present book is more like she took her early drafts of "Remodeling" and bound them into a book. I regret having wasted my money on it. Others can "look inside the book" here on Amazon, read the Table of Contents, and judge for themselves.
More solutions from Sarah Susanka
AWESOME solutions to guide us in remodeling our home. Realistic plans and sketches for us to see the differences in how and why changes should be done with dimensions. Super!!!
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