The Smaller Home: Creating the Perfect Fit [Hardcover]

Dan Sater (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 3, 2006

The Smaller Home offers interesting new ways of thinking about the home. Innovative and efficient use of space can make living easier, more economical, and more enjoyable. The Smaller Home includes the latest ideas for layout options, flow patterns, space conversions, creative storage, and putting technology to work. It is a useful and imaginative guide for making the most out of less space without compromising comfort, convenience, or style.

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About the Author

Dan F. Sater II, A.LB.D., CP.BD., is the President and CEO of The Sater Companies and is a Certified Professional Building Designer and professional member of the American Institute of Building Design.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Harper Design (July 3, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060891890
• ISBN-13: 978-0060891893
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 9.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,737,200 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Average Size Home Doesn't Have to Be Average, August 14, 2006

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John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Smaller Home: Creating the Perfect Fit (Hardcover)

Note that smaller in this book doesn't mean the really tiny homes that have been featured in a number of books lately. What Mr. Sater means by smaller is homes that are around the size of the national average, say 2,500 square feet or less.

What this book clearly shows is that in homes of average size, the home does not have to be average in layout, furnishing, function, or anything else. Instead as the author says, the home should be a perfect fit for what you need the home to be. By being a perfect fit, he means that it should have the rooms, the space, the design to suit your use of the home.

Do you entertain formally a lot, perhaps you need a formal dining room?

Do you hate television and never turn it on, you don't need an entertainment center?

Are you thinking of extra rooms for the annual visit of the kids, perhaps a pull down bed in the family room would suffice.

This is the kind of thinking that he uses throughout this book, usually illustrating his thinking by pictures of houses that he has designed. It's a great idea book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for ideas and a reality check!, February 19, 2007

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Mike Mitchell (Murphy, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Smaller Home: Creating the Perfect Fit (Hardcover)

This book really looks at the misconceptions many Americans have about designing a home for themselves. The book asks the potential new home clients to re-think their logic in determining what spaces they really need. It has useful charts for analyzing room and space needs and has many beautiful photos of homes.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars am returning the book..., December 5, 2006

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This review is from: The Smaller Home: Creating the Perfect Fit (Hardcover)

disapointing, if you are looking for inventive original creative design ideas and a well laid out premise of what really makes the smaller home work - perfect if what you want is the "typical" contractor/builder design style.