Better Homes and Gardens Small House, Big Style
 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 [... more]
CDN$50.10
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New Compact House Designs: *27 Award-Winning Plans*1,240 ...
Creative, sophisticated, and SMALL!: If you are tired of McMansions (and are comfortable reading floor plans), you will enjoy these clever and imaginative house plans. Many are designed for a specific area of the country - Florida, the urban south, the [... more]
CDN$22.95
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The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live
From Amazon.com: When describing a favorite room in the house, do you find yourself using terms such as "expansive," "formal," and "spacious"--a marble foyer or a formal dining room perhaps? Or do the words "cozy," [... more]
CDN$42.00
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Architectural Representation and the Perspective Hinge
an excellent history textbook: for smart talented students of architecture who also happen to have the patience for a scholarly explanation of the philosophical history behind, and destinies awaiting their profession. Can you imagine books on the history [... more]
CDN$43.76
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Compact Living
All the mod cons.....: Two of my children recently moved into new homes -- one in San Diego (1450 square feet), and the other in Washington DC (1500 square feet & four children). They both have high rents/mortgage payments and modest budgets, so I've [... more]
CDN$29.95
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Compact Living
All the mod cons.....: Two of my children recently moved into new homes -- one in San Diego (1450 square feet), and the other in Washington DC (1500 square feet & four children). They both have high rents/mortgage payments and modest budgets, so I've [... more]
CDN$41.95
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A Little House of My Own: 47 Grand Designs for 47 Tiny ...
I don't think so.: These houses would be interesting to live in, if you don't mind living in houses WITHOUT BATHROOMS! Nice houses to look at, and one or two might be nice to build (two out of the whole 48 could be liveable as a weekend getaway), but if [... more]
CDN$27.95
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Household Winners for Working Women: Your Personal ...
Solid, useful, and highly recommended ideas: Household Winners For Working Women: Your Personal Organizational Tool Kit To Declutter & Design A Comfortable Home is a highly practical and "user friendly" guide for keeping one's home free of [... more]
CDN$23.03
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More One-Story Homes: 475 Superb Home Plans From 810 to ...
A good way to get a feel for what you want.: I found this book useful for narrowing down my choices in what I do and don't want in my new house. Ultimately, we will probably have our house custom-designed by a local architect, so we just used this book [... more]
CDN$22.03
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Alternatives to Sex: A Novel
It''s a New World: William Collins is an almost believable charachter who is not quite above measuring success in terms of square footage. But that is his role in this sophisticated and very funny social satire. McCauley's sharp wit is evident throughout [... more]
CDN$16.00
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One-Story Homes: 450 Exceptional Home Plans From 810 to ...
One Story - Same old story: There are lots of plans in here with ridiculously high pitched roof-lines, tiny, barely functional rooms, and for a book that was supposed to feature ONE STORY homes, a surprising number of TWO STORY plans. No matter how small [... more]
CDN$24.04
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Access San Francisco
Use this guide to supplement another one.: Having been to SF a few times before (some years ago), I purchased this guide as my only guide for the city. I didn't want to carry a big heavy book on my weekend trip and, more often than not, I found myself [... more]
CDN$23.50
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