Customer Reviews

Designing for Small Homes

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This book's primary appeal to me is the large quantity of very nice photos for ideas of how to design for small spaces. Think of it as the equivalent of a dozen very good "home" magazines all focused on small spaces.

Unfortuantely, this is not the type of book that's easy to buy online. You need to browse. I can tell you that I spent over an hour at a bookstore and this was the one I walked away with. Most of the others were horribly technical books about how to build and use all these storage containers to hide/organize your stuff. Frankly, if you have a tiny space, you should throw away most of the stuff you don't use regularly. I'm more interterested in lighting and arrangement and color to give the illusion of more space... not organizing all my junk in neat tupperware containers.

At first glance the bright photos of this book look promising, but the text is so small it is painful (for me, at least) to read without a magnifying glass, plus once you do read it, it's not very helpful. Some of the book is oriented toward building the space, as opposed to working with the small space you've already got. I now own 4 decorating/design books, and this is the one I use the least often, if at all. Not recommended if you want guidelines on "how to" or if you are a reader. Text is poorly laid out--sometimes not clear which caption goes with which photo.

I was looking for a book that would give me specific ideas about designing for small living spaces. This book only has photographs of peoples homes and their fancy furniture. If these are small homes, then my apartment is tiny. I found the title to be misleading. Don't bother with this book unless you want another coffee table book.

I think everyone has their own idea of "small" I would like to see a book that has actual measurements of some of these rooms. I'm sure the cameras are angled to make the rooms look more spacious. On the otherhand, I like color so I enjoyed seeing how other people have used color in their small spaces so you don't feel you have to paint everything white.

This book offers a great look into small apartments and homes from around the world. Each dwelling shown includes photographs, floorplans and a narrative explanation of how the designs evolved. Its easy to see how everything in these dwellings fits together

This is my favourite book (and I have a big collection as a graduate of Interior Design course).
You will definetely benefit from a variety of styles and ideas (different colour-shcemes), shown on pages of this book. Superb quality of photographs makes reading enjoyable. The author won't tell you 'how to make it' (as it's not a DIY book), but I found comments on each room layout very helpful. It inspires and develops your taste. Dylan Landis, well-done!

Beautiful photography and wonderful suggestions on making the most of limited space. The book is broken into two categories of homes: the small house and the apartment. Especially helpful for urban dwellers

I came across a magazine I had kept for about 15 years and in it was an advertisment for this book. I thought, let me go on Amazon.com and see if it is still available..and it was..and also three more old books I never got because of how expensive they were. Well, I got all of them at about a dollar or two plus shipping of course. I guess that saying is very true.."all things come to those that wait" !! lol I love each and every book I received.