Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #773220 in Books
• Published on: 2001-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 216 pages

From Library Journal
This book focuses on maximizing space in a small house. Beginning with an overview of coping with space and deciding on decorating style, the text goes on to "show how to use the elements of home decorating, remodeling and building to make the space feel right for you." Each chapter examines actual homes, most under 2000 square feet, to illustrate the suggestions. Numerous color photographs show how the inhabitants deal with space restrictions, whether through clever furniture and storage arrangements or by remodeling or room additions, with helpful before-and-after floor plans. Similar in its approach to Real Life Decorating (LJ 9/15/00), this book would be an excellent addition to any size public library.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Customer Reviews

Don't waste your money!
The majority of the photos are of cluttered, out of style room designs and decorating. Disappointing.

My 1900 sq foot house is small?
It is according to this book. The ridiculous assumption of a small house being anything less than 2000k sq feet aside the book is interesting, has some great ideas, photographed nicely, and worth picking up if you are interested in making small spaces look bigger thru organization, furniture placement, color, and lighting.

Of course we'd like more space but this is our first home so we must make do with our 4 br. 2 1/2 bath 'small' home. This book will help us do just that.

Refreshing, interesting, fun, and helpful
How refreshing this book is. It starts with an intriguing little house on a traffic island somewhere in California. I must have studied the pictures of that house a thousand times by now. But it has ideas, from storage to room arranging, for homes of somewhere around 2500 square feet or less. The square footage is listed with each house. Many are between 1000 and 2000 square feet. It's about time. McMansions in my neck of the woods are running 4,000, 5,000, 6,000 square feet.. Obscene. I wish more builders and architects would get on board with reasonable home sizes again. This book proves that a small house of 2500 square feet or less can live big.