Small Eco Houses: Living Green in Style Paperback – Illustrated, November 2, 2010

Although it is most photos (which I very much like) it was very well focused into details and features pointing, it provided details on particular items or design ideas.Excellent book one of the best so far!Love Cristina Paredes B.'s editing intervention.

Great ideas page after page! XLNT images. A friend in Santa Ana is building an "Eco-hotel" in Colombia and I got another copy for her! She loves it! Her property is now 90% done!

Forty-two houses are profiled in this book, ranging in size from 6.5 sq. m./ 70 sq. ft. to 294 sq. m./3,165 sq. ft. More than half the houses are over 120 sq. m./1,300 sq. ft., so they aren't necessarily small. They are architect designed in the minimalist style, mostly boxes with flat roofs, but a few dare to step out of the box with gabled or shed or v-shaped roofs. There are houses for every budget, from low cost prefabs to luxurious, custom built houses.Each profile gives an almost too brief description of the house followed by icons with reasons why it is an eco house, floor plans and/or elevations, and color pictures of the interiors and exteriors with views of breathtakingly beautiful landscapes. Here are a few examples of the variety of houses in this book:The Joshua Tree house is a gabled roof prefab, on wheels for transport, with two bedrooms and a long, skinny bathroom with a toilet and sink on each end and a shower in the middle, all in a tiny 36 sq. m./387.5 sq. ft. space.The Float houses are low cost prefabs in New Orleans for people who lost their homes during Hurricane Katrina. They are narrow, shot gun houses that resemble mobile homes but they have unusual design innovations. They are built to withstand another hurricane and are on a chassis that will float like a raft during a flood. The roof is v-shaped with a groove to capture rain water.The Casa Pulmo house is a two story house with an outdoor wheelchair ramp connecting the levels.Half of the house in Geres, Portugal, featured on the cover, juts out over a cliff. It has a low environmental impact because part of it hovers in mid air!There are houses in Norway and Iceland specially designed to withstand a sub-arctic winter. The landscapes had no trees and little vegetation.

This is a good "ideas" book for visual concepts of a finished house and floor plans, but there are only short details on the eco features for each house. I have added it to the library next to books with more technical detail on eco ideas and implementation - they will complement each other.

Really like it. It's amazing what people have done. Nice descriptions and pictures. Lots of great ideas. I was surprised at how much is in this book.

This book has excellent photos and many interesting houses. Some of the houses are small vacation type properties, while others are for normal small family living - so interesting my mother- in- law ordered her own copy!

super Cool Book, Full Of Hundreds Of Pages Of House Layouts,Great Photos, House History And Design. Offers So Many Fresh IdeasTo Help Me Build My Ultimate Tiny Dream house

This is a beautiful book. I am glad to have this as a part of my house collections. I had hoped it would have more information on making it ECO.