Designing Your Natural Home

by David Pearson

Overview

One of the pioneers of incorporating the green movement into home design, David Pearson now offers a complete guide for creating an eco-home. Informative, clear, and with factual advice, tips, and beautiful color photos, Designing Your Natural Home takes readers through each step of the process, from defining the scope of the project to choosing materials and building methods to decorating the new abode.

Along with practical, how-to information, photo essays present inspiring and stylish examples of natural design. The ten innovative homes featured in this book exemplify different solutions for every situation and budget, from apartments to sprawling dwellings. Readers will learn how to make the most of small spaces, find a builder, draw up plans, purchase low energy appliances, and much more.

Whether they're renovating an existing space, expanding a house, or starting from scratch, readers will be inspired to create the natural home of their dreams with this indispensable guide and source for fresh ideas.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780060761431
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	11/22/2005
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

David Pearson is the author of eight books, including The Natural House Book and New Organic Architecture. He is an internationally-known eco-architect, lecturer, and founder of the Ecological Design Association.