Les Cabanes et Cie...: Lloyd Kahn

dimanche 12 janvier 2014

Nouveaux livres pour 2014...

Voilà quelques nouveaux livres consacrés aux "Tiny houses" que je vais m'offrir pour cette année 2014. Le premier en février, puis en avril et enfin les deux autres, en juillet.

Découvrez le livre de 288 pages "The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir" de Dee Williams, à paraître le 2 avril 2014.

Living in USA, please use this LINK to buy this book.

Living in Canada, please use this LINK to buy this book.
Living in United Kingdom, please use this LINK to buy this book.

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Découvrez le livre de 176 pages "Tiny House Living - Ideas for Building and Living Well in Less than 400 Square Feet", de Ryan Mitchell, à paraître le 14 juillet 2014.

Living in USA, please use this LINK to buy this book.

Living in Canada, please use this LINK to buy this book.
Living in United Kingdom, please use this LINK to buy this book.

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Découvrez le livre de 224 pages "Tiny Homes on the Move: Wheels and Water" de Lloyd Kahn, à paraître le 15 juillet 2014

Living in USA, please use this LINK to buy this book.

Living in Canada, please use this LINK to buy this book.
Living in United Kingdom, please use this LINK to buy this book.

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Découvrez le livre de 208 pages "Petites maisons pas comme les autres : Cabanes, yourte, caravane, tente, péniche, roulotte..." de Vinny Lee, à paraître le 5 février 2014.

"C'est un très grand plaisir d'avoir un petit endroit à soi où l'on peut s'évader de tout, un lieu intime, ou l'on peut donner libre cours à sa fantaisie ou simplement assouvir une passion... Avec "Des maisons pas comme les autres", découvrez toutes sortes de maisons originales, en osmose avec la nature : maisons sur l'eau, yourtes, cabanes, tentes, maisons dans les arbres, caravanes et maisons mobiles de toute sortes...".

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mardi 3 janvier 2012

BOOK: Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter

Découvrez le livre de 224 pages "Tiny Homes: Simple Shelter" de Lloyd Kahn, à paraître le 15 février 2012.

«There's a grassroots movement in tiny homes these days. The real estate collapse, the economic downturn, burning out on 12-hour workdays – many people are rethinking their ideas about shelter – seeking an alternative to high rents, or a lifelong mortgage debt to a bank on an overpriced home.
In this book are some 150 builders who have taken things into their own hands, creating tiny homes (under 500 sq. ft.). Homes on land, homes on wheels, homes on the road, homes on water, even homes in the trees. There are also studios, saunas, garden sheds, and greenhouses.

There are 1,300 photos, showing a rich variety of small homemade shelters, and there are stories (and thoughts and inspirations) of the owner-builders who are on the forefront of this new trend in downsizing and self-sufficiency. At the heart of our 1973 book Shelter were drawings of 5 small buildings, which we recommended as a starting point in providing one's own home. Now, almost 40 years later, there's a growing tiny house movement all over the world – which we've been tracking over the past two years. Many people have decided to scale back, to get by with less stuff, to live in smaller homes. You can buy a ready-made tiny home, build your own, get a kit or pre-fab, or live in a bus, houseboat, or other movable shelter. Some cities have special ordinances for building "inlaw" or "granny flats" in the back yard. There are innovative solutions in cities, such as the "capsules" in Tokyo. There are numerous blogs and websites with news, photos, and/or plans for tiny homes, documented here.
If you're thinking of scaling back, you'll find plenty of inspiration here. Here's a different approach, a 180º turn from increasing consumption. Here are builders, designers, architects (no less), dreamers, artists, road gypsies, and water dwellers who've achieved a measure of freedom and independence by taking shelter into their own hands».