Homes Filled with Natural Light: 223 Sunny Home Plans for All Regions [Paperback]

Home Planners Inc (Author), Inc Home Planners (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 1996

-Make the most of natural sunlight with details that lend an open, airy feel to well-planned interior spaces.
-These beautiful, unique homes show how skylights, transoms and clerestory windows brighten any living space.
-Atriums, solariums and greenhouses also featured.
-Homes from 1,346 to 7,275 square feet.
-Complete construction drawings available separately.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Home Planners (February 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1881955273
• ISBN-13: 978-1881955276
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,569 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #1 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Professional & Technical > Architecture > Building Types & Styles > Residential
  • #1 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Home & Garden > Home Design > House Plans
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126 of 127 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Natural Light House Plans are pretty dim in this review, April 13, 2000

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This review is from: Homes Filled with Natural Light: 223 Sunny Home Plans for All Regions (Paperback)

I found this book while trying to find a unique but practical houseplan for a custom home to be built along a riverfront on a bluff. The sunlight is ample at this site. So I was rather optimistic to purchase this book. However, my enthusiasm turned to disappointment in browsing through this rather mundane set of plans. Some of the examples appeared to come from the 1970s prototypes found along Southern California. There were no magical window placements or use of extraordinary skylights and the such. There were a few distinguished types, but none to this reviewer's liking. I did find the adobe prototype of plans seen in the southwest as somewhat interesting in this book. Otherwise, don't let the title fool you.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars dont waste your time, January 4, 2007

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Evan Austin (Grants Pass, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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I was looking for a book to get some ideas for the new house I am building and possibly some floor plan ideas. The homes in this book are gaudy east coast cookie cutter types best suited for fairways of some snobby country club golf course. I didnt find one house with a decent kitchen! Why is the kitchen always some tiny room stuck in the corner isolating the cook from the rest of the house. I wanted somthing inspirational and unique. It is also all balck and white with just arcitectural sketches of the houses. If you want ideas, go to the market and pick up a sunset, log homes or westen living magazine for $5 instead, they are full of great ideas and beautiful photos of kitchens, baths and exteriors that dont include hardy plank siding or somthing my 97 year old grandmother would find appealing.

3.0 out of 5 stars Reference materials, November 4, 2010

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B. Chau (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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I use the book as reference material to work on my house, it give a little help for me only.