Tiny Houses: or How to Get Away From It All [Hardcover]

Lester R. Walker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 1987

Tiny Houses contains the plans for forty-four houses so small that anyone can afford to have one—and so thoughtfully designed that anyone can build one—each offering the dream of solitude, a place to escape for a weekend of romance, meditation, or whimsy. Award-winning architect Lester Walker shows how, with a little energy and imagination, everyone’s dream of owning a home, or having a second home in the country, is within reach.

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About the Author

Lester Walker is an award-winning architect and a partner in the architectural firm StudioWorks in Woodstock, New York.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Overlook Hardcover; Second printing edition (May 1, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879512717
• ISBN-13: 978-0879512712
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #249,516 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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84 of 85 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful, wonderful book!, September 29, 1999

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This review is from: Tiny Houses: or How to Get Away From It All (Hardcover)

I am a professional builder and this is one of my very favorite books on residential architecture. It is a book that you pick up from the coffee table to peruse, and you can end up studying for hours. Maybe you're not interested in building an ice fishing shanty, or a camp cottage, or the tent house that folds out like a pop up trailer, but in this book there are interesting lessons, ideas, and details about space that apply to well designed houses of any size. This book makes you think. If you are in the process of designing a home, I guarantee you will be flagging pages, and jotting down notes on details. Tiny Tiny Houses is about efficient use of space. It's about good design. It's about historic homes. Lester Walker is an architect with a passion and it shows on every page. This book will have you smiling ear to ear!

37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tiny Houses, Big Ideas, October 2, 2000

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William L. Dockery (Knoxville, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tiny Houses: or How to Get Away From It All (Hardcover)

I've owned Walker's book since I picked it up on a sale table eight or nine years ago. It's probably given me more enjoyable fantasy hours than any other book I own. I hope to build my own office/studio in the woods behind my house, and this book has fueled my dreams. I may never get around to building any of these structures, but I've been rewarded many times over by the inspiration of "Tiny, Tiny Houses."

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Personal space on a personal scale., April 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Tiny Houses: or How to Get Away From It All (Hardcover)

I find myself coming back to this book again and again.

To me, its importance is that it provides specific examples of how people have adapted their lifestyles to fit into remarkably small spaces. Some are less than 100 square feet, an area so small that the UBC doesn't recognize such structures as residential.

A few of dwellings shown served as homes for the likes of Henry David Thoreau and Thomas Jefferson; the majority, however, are fairly simple vernacular structures, a few having been designed by the author himself.

The text is concise but quite readable. The line drawings adequately illustrate the interior arrangements for living and enjoying what are often very limited spaces indeed; black and white photos answer most remaining questions.