Straw Bale House Item#: 9780930031718
Whether you plan an entire house or something more modest such as a studio, retreat cabin or guest cottage you'll find that plastered straw bale construction is a durable and inexpensive option.
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Country Houses Item#: 9781585742226
Here are dozens of designs selected by the author for their practicality, comfort, and economy --- each embracing a different style and purpose, including a small villa of brownstone, a seaside cottage, a country church, and a workingman's cottage.
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Natural House Item#: 9781890132576
A tour of the construction, costs, pros and cons of fourteen building methods. Straw bale, rammed earth, cob, cordwood, adobe, earthbags, papercrete, Earthships....
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Serious Straw Bale Item#: 9781890132644
An essential book for those just beginning to think about straw bale, this book offers a wealth of in-depth information for those folks who are ready to move forward and make their dream a reality.
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Natural Home Heating Item#: 9781931498227
Find practical information on stoves, fireplaces, furnaces and boilers that use wood, pellets, corn and grain.
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Solar House Item#: 9781931498128
Learn how to select a cost effective, energy efficient back-up system; how to preserve air quality in an air-tight home; ways to employ "green" building materials in a naturally conditioned home.
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Backyard Structures Item#: 9781592280100
Sections on Decks, Patios, Backyard Decor, Backyard Playing, Backyard Shelters, and Animal Houses and Feeders you can learn to build.
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Classic Hewn-Log House Item#: 9781580175906
Meet the original Log Cabin. Whether you're restoring an old house, building new, or indulging an interest in traditional building, you'll find much to learn from McRaven's 60 years of experience.
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Solar Electric House Item#: 9780963738325
It is a truly elegant means of producing electricity on site, allowing you to take control of your energy destiny and create your own lifestyle without concern for energy supply or environmental harm.
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ElderHouse: Planning Your Best Home Ever Item#: 9781931498111
ElderHouse: Planning Your Best Home Ever. Adelaide Altman has created a practical and timely guide to help prevent accidents, ensure comfort, and maintain an independent, sustainable lifestyle in your own home as you age.
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Independent Builder Item#: 9780930031855
The most complete and easy-to-use housebuilding handbook available anywhere. This comprehensive manual of design, planning, and building methods provides readers with the tools to build a home that will be beautiful and comfortable.
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Good House Book Item#: 9781579902810
Build an eco-friendly, energy efficient, and sustainable "good House" that's also warm, welcoming, and uniquely your own, environmentally conscious focus, and is packed with solid, up-to-date information on making the switch to alternative building
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Complete Yurt Handbook Item#: 9781899233083
the yurt has evolved into the ultimate portable dwelling. These virtues have been recognized in the West and now we find yurts used for many purposes - offices, summer houses, meditation spaces, spare rooms, or just satisfying spaces to be in.
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Home Storage Projects Item#: 9781561584987
Every room in the house seems to have a need for a storage accessory. Home Storage Projects offers 13 practical projects for woodworkers of all skill levels. Organizing and controlling clutter is one of the biggest challenges for today's homeowner.
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Modular Home Item#: 9781580175265
By setting the specs, price, and building schedule for your individual house up front, you will avoid the endless delays, shoddy workmanship, and budget overruns faced by so many home buyers who are building new or adding on,modular home
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Independent Energy Guide Item#: 9780964411203
You'll understand how a power system works, be able to talk intelligently with equipment suppliers about your needs, and have the necessary tools to make and manage you own electricity.
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New Ecological Home Item#: 9781931498166
Shelter, like many elements of human existence, comes at an extraordinary cost to our planet and its inhabitants.the staggering amounts of electricity, water, and nonrenewable products consumed in the day-to-day operation of the modern household
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How To Build a House Item#: 9781561585328
Straight from the builders of 40,000 houses across the United States. How to Build a House is from the professional home builders of Habitat for Humanity.
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Freewheeling Homes Item#: 9781931498036
From families who have made their homes in converted buses, restored show folk's vans, and hand-crafted gypsy wagons; individuals who have re-learnt ancient and traditional wagon building arts, or restored vintage caravans and the vehicles totow them
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Making Better Concrete Item#: 9780976491101
Guidelines to using Fly Ash for higher quality, Eco-Friendly structures. Form assembly and pouring guides. Making Better Concrete by Green Building Press. This is the best and most readable how to guide for using fly ash concrete.
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Log Home Project Planner Item#: 9780970805508
Everything you need to get that dream home from start to finish. Cost detail sheets, Worksheets for estimating/bidding materials,Useful tables and formulas and so much more.
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Energy-Efficient Building Item#: 9781561583409
You'll learn how to: Test a house for air leaks, Choose the right windows for your home, Build an efficient fireplace, Retrofit a threshold to provide extra weather protection, Fix a cold, drafty house by sealing and insulating the attic, Prevent ice
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Bungalows, Camps, & Mountain Houses Item#: 9781602390072
This unrivalled classic reveals the designs of thirty-two American architects, including descriptions of materials, siting, sanitation, color, furnishings, and an entire chapter devoted to camps, lodges, and log cabins.
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Passive Solar House, Rev Item#: 9781933392035
The new edition of this best-selling guide includes CSOL passive solar design software, making it easier than ever to heat your home with the power of the sun.
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Building an Affordable House Item#: 9781561585960
Insider techniques used every day by the best homebuilders in the county to save thousands of dollars in the cost of every home they build.
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Craftsman Homes Item#: 9781585744923
Relying on nature and local materials, and integrating traditional craft techniques, these homes still look as fresh, modern, and ultimately livable today as they did when they were built in the early twentieth century.
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Home Plan Doctor Item#: 9781580176989
Home Plan Doctor by Larry W. Garnett. Every new house begins with a dream and a home plan. Explaining in clear language how to navigate every stage of the process, from selecting a plan to the finished home.
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