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Green House: The Story of a Healthy, Energy-Efficient Home by Deborah Carnes Christie, 2009.
Part memoir, part reference work, Green House is the story of a Modernist home designed and constructed to be healthy, energy efficient, barrier free, low maintenance and above all, as functional as it is visually pleasing. Deb Christie explains how she chose architect/builder John Hartley, and how they worked together to research and decide on passive solar, Modernist design, metal roof, seamless covered gutters, borate-treated structural insulated wall panels, acoustical insulated ceiling panels, exterior stucco, low-pollution interior built-in cabinetry and paints, fiberglass-framed windows and doors, and exposed ductwork.
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Remodel Replace Refund!: Your DIY Guide to the 2009-2010 Federal Tax Credit for Homeowners by Editors of CPi, 2009. Part home improvement book and part financial instrument, Remodel, Replace … Refund makes sense of the home remodeling provisions of the 2009-2010 Federal Tax Credit for Homeowners. Learn which types of improvements qualify and how to file the paperwork to get your share of this popular element of the Stimulus Plan. Then, see clear step-by-step photos that show how to do the work yourself--most of the credits apply only to materials, not to labor, so DIYers have a lot to gain. With this book as your guide you can make your house more energy efficient and more attractive by replacing windows and doors and making other qualifying upgrades … and save up to $1,500 on your tax bill at the same time.
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Creating the Inspired House : Discovering Your Place Called Home by John Connell, 2004. Where we choose to settle, what we build, and how our homes feel inside and out are all expressions of who we are. The best houses are about people, and Creating the Inspired House chronicles the stories of memorable characters immersed in the search for a place they can call home. With over 300 color photographs, this book takes readers on a cross-country tour of over 20 inspired homes -- large and small, new and remodeled -- with the very homeowners, architects, and builders who collaborated on their creation. Each of the houses is shaped by the owners’ personal passions, and it’s those passions that breathe life into the design of their homes, creating an “inspired house.” The inspirations for these houses are as varied as the people who live in them, and the stories are as enthralling as gossip. In this collection of fascinating stories, readers will find the encouragement to believe and act on their own personal dreams . . . and build accordingly.
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Homing Instinct: Using Your Lifestyle to Design & Build Your Home by John Connel, 1998. A uniquely personal, state-of-the-art guide to designing and building a home, Homing Instinct considers not only the roof, but the sky...not only the placement of plumbing, but where the first light of dawn will enter the building...not just ease of maintenance, but your home's impact on the planet. This richly detailed, forward-thinking book can help you create a house that perfectly expresses who you are--physically, emotionally, and spiritually. See how things really work, from foundation and framing, to plumbing and electricity, to selecting the right materials and products. Understand the latest construction options. Resolve questions of cost, durability, design, intent, and self-expression. Master architectural fundamentals and effective building techniques.
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Eco House Book by Terence Conran, 2009. A complete guide to home improvement the environmentally friendly way: whether you want to redecorate or redesign your home, this book provides all the information you need to reduce your home's carbon footprint and improve the quality of your life. Conran shows us that it is possible to convert our existing homes into greener, healthier places without starting from scratch. Whether you want to redecorate or redesign your home, Eco House Book explains how relatively small and economic changes can be made, including simple repairs to improve energy efficiency, water saving tips, and productive gardening, to more dramatic overhauls such as redesigning room use, converting basements and extending your home.
Attention is given to reducing the vast amounts of energy and water that homes consume on a daily basis, with advice on low energy lighting strategies and decorative choices, improving insulation and reducing energy use, the latest green heating systems, alternative ways of generating power, and electricity reducing appliances.
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Your Eco-Friendly Home: Buying, Building, or Remodeling Green by Sid Davis, 2008.
More and more people are becoming interested not just in living green, but particularly in living in a home that's ecologically sound. With thousands of new eco-minded houses being built, and the real estate market becoming more attuned to home-buyers' interests, demand for ecologically efficient living spaces is still exceeding the supply. Yet few resources exist for those wanting to build, buy, or remodel their own home to use less energy and be environmentally sensitive. Your Eco-Friendly Home shows readers how they can: find, finance, and buy eco-friendly real estate • work with eco-conscious agents and brokers • use environmentally friendly materials and techniques for interiors and exteriors • make their homes and landscaping more efficient • take advantage of tax incentives for going green. This practical, reader-friendly guide gives readers all the guidance they need to easily become ecologically responsible homeowners.
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Green Beginnings: The Story of How We Built Our Green & Sustainable Home by Avrim and Vicki Topel, 2008. Using non-technical English, the authors identify and define green and sustainable concepts, materials and systems, and explain how these various components come together and relate to each other in today's green homes. Their homespun narrative style of storytelling simplifies learning and comprehension. Following the projects timeline, the authors inject experiential advice at key planning and construction phases when applicable. Topics include selecting architects, builders and other professionals, the LEED For Homes program, and cite the benefits green homes avail homeowners. Construction activities are illustrated with 100 sequenced color photographs, and a glossary of green and sustainable terms and language provides the reader with a reference guide. |
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The Owner-Builder Book: How You Can Save More than $100,000 in the Construction of Your Custom Home by Mark A. Smith, 2000. The author says, "When we built our own home, a general contractor estimated the cost of construction at $90 a square foot. It was more than we could afford. We had two choices: shrink the house we had planned, or build it ourselves. We decided to build it ourselves, and completed the house for $49 a square foot. We found very little published help on the key issue - saving money - when we were building. So we decided to make it easier for others by writing The Owner-Builder Book. We conducted 200 interviews with subcontractors, generals, lenders, inspectors, and many other owner-builders. I also drew on my experience as a former construction industry executive and consultant. We provided templates for the reader to the three key tools needed for success: Written Budget, Written Schedule, and Written List of Features."
The Owner-Builder Book: Special Reports (Spiral-bound) by Mark A. Smith with Elaine M. Smith, 2007.
The Owner-builder Workshop DVDs by Mark A. Smith, Elaine M. Smith, 2004.
 The Cheap-Ass Curmudgeon's Guide to Dirt: Hand-Building with Adobe, Papercrete, Paper-Adobe, and More by Michael Van Hall, 2009. This down-loadable e-book is a somewhat whimsical guide to building with adobe in an unconventional way. What this curmudgeon advocates appears to works pretty well and could eliminate much of the conventional labor of air drying all of the adobes and mortaring them into place. It is basically a method that combines formed bricks with hand-piled adobe (or pise) for a system that is quite maleable in wall shape and appearance. Describing how to do this is half of the book; the other half is an exhortation to think out of the box, have fun, and be creative. Michael shows many examples of his own projects and those of others that do just that. It is a fun read that will make you want to get out in the dirt and play!
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Affordable Home Design: Innovations and Renovations by Martha Torres, 2005. One of our most important requirements as humans is the dwelling. Designing a home is thus one of the most important challenges architecture has to deal with. On the one hand, architects must create homes that guarantee with the highest of quality the wellbeing and comfort of their inhabitants. On the other hand, architects must learn how to manage a client's limited budget by reducing costs without affecting the quality of the final result. Affordable Home Design showcases a wide array of solutions to this same architectural challenge of good design and structure on a budget. The projects featured include extensions of houses and apartments already in existence, ecological housing design, sustainable and structurally cost-effective homes, and new buildings in strictly coded conservation zones. Through more than 250 full-color photographs, this essential book reveals how today's architects are able to adapt to the necessities of a more affordable budget when approaching the always exciting necessity of designing a home.
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Working Alone : Tips & Techniques for Solo Building by John Carroll, 1999. This unique book is worth a second set of hands. It offers solo builders and do-it-yourselfers proven tips, techniques, and shortcuts for careful, precise, and safe construction. There are many times when a helper would make a job easier, and in some cases doable at all, but with John Carroll's clever, expert tips, there's no need to wait for help. This book, the only one of its kind, offers ways to get by with not only one pair of hands but to work more efficiently as well. A perfect example is the problem of bringing a large sheet of plywood up a ladder. Even with a helper this is a difficult and dangerous task. But if a large C-clamp is fastened to one end of the plywood, it's easy to pull the sheet up the ladder from behind.
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Timber Framing for the Rest of Us : A Guide to Contemporary Post and Beam Construction by Rob Roy, 2004. Many natural building methods rely upon the use of post and beam frame structures that are then in-filled with straw, cob, cordwood, or more conventional wall materials. But traditional timber framing employs the use of finely crafted jointing and wooden pegs, requiring a high degree of craftsmanship and training, as well as much time and expense. However, there is another way . . Timber Framing for the Rest of Us describes the timber framing methods used by most contractors, farmers and owner-builders-methods that use modern metal fasteners, special screws and common sense building principles to accomplish the same goal in much less time. And while there are many good books on traditional timber framing, this is the first to describe in depth these more common fastening methods. The book includes everything an owner-builder needs to know about building strong and beautiful structural frames from heavy timbers, including:
the historical background of timber framing crucial design and structural considerations procuring timbers-including different woods and recycled materials foundations, roofs and in-filling considerations. A detailed case study of a timber frame project from start to finish completes this practical and comprehensive guide, along with a useful appendix of span tables and a bibliography. Highly illustrated, this book enables "the rest of us" to build like the professionals and will appeal to owner-builders, contractors and architects alike.
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Build Your Dream House For A Song; and own it free and clear in five years by David Cook, 1998. This book offers you the chance to build the house you really want and do it less expensively than any other method.This a is a strategy that consists of five major parts. I. How to buy land cheap. 2. How to buy materials cheap. 3. How to design for easy construction. 4. How to live rent free and comfortably while you build. 5. How to get involved in the construction process.
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Illuminating: Natural Light in Residential Architecture by Michelle Corrodi and Klaus Spechtenhauser, 2008.
The image of open working and living spaces flooded with light has, more than any other, become fixed in our minds as a symbol of modernity and the spirit of the times. This book evaluates central aspects of light planning, including the connection between the provision of daylight and architectural design, building orientation, the nature of the facade, the ground plan, comfort, and the proportions and atmosphere of rooms. In the process, general characteristics and fundamental principles as well as subtle facets of an intelligent treatment of daylight are discussed and critically examined within an expanded architecture- and culture-historical context.
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Independent Builder: Designing & Building a House Your Own Way by Sam Clark, 1996. This book for anyone thinking about building their own home. It is comprehensive, detailed and covers subjects like how to make a small house seem bigger, incorporating ergonomics and accessibility, doing your own drawings and scale models, making contracts that work, and working effectively with professional designers and builders. With detailed diagrams and photographs, this is a thorough overall guide to building your own home.
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Green Remodeling : Changing the World One Room at a Time by David R. Johnston, Kim Master, 2004. Green Remodeling is a comprehensive guide. It first points out the advantages of remodeling. Buildings are responsible for 40% of worldwide energy flow and material use; so how you remodel can make a difference. Upgrading furnaces, cabinets and toilets means less fossil fuel pollution, reduced resource depletion and fewer health risks. Green remodeling is more energy-efficient, more resource-conserving, healthier for occupants and creates buildings that are more affordable to build, operate and maintain. The book then discusses simple green renovation solutions for homeowners, focusing on key aspects of the building, including foundations, framing, plumbing, windows, heating and finishes. Room by room, it outlines the intricate connections that make the house work as a system. For example, how new windows may affect the structure and mechanical systems of the rooms below, the health of the family and the future of old-growth forests. Then, in an easy-to-read format complete with checklists, personal stories, expert insights and an extensive resource list, it covers easy ways to save energy, conserve natural resources and protect the health of loved ones. Addressing all climates, this is a perfect resource for conventional homeowners, as well as for architects and remodeling contractors.
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The House That Jill Built: A Woman's Guide to Home Building by Judy Ostrow and Karen Leffler, 2005. Millions of women are already learning the basics of do-it-yourself and getting in tune with the empowering nature of power tools. Allison Kennedy, a woman who built an earthbag house all by herself after her boyfriend left her with a concrete foundation, is one of the featured stories. The House That Jill Built is perfect for women of all skill levels, from the experienced do-it-her-selfer to the woman who doesn't know the difference between a stud finder and a palm sander, to the woman who is looking to move on to more complex or large-scale projects. Sharing women's real-life experiences in creating their own dream homes, The House that Jill Built is a groundbreaking guide to the process as well as a collection of women's real-life home-building experiences, complete with before and after photos and drawings, advice from experts, safety precautions, and a comprehensive section of how-to tips, including a tool guide. Chapters highlight success stories, such as the design and construction of one woman's desert dream house to another's tropical paradise nestled up north. After reading these personal stories, every woman will feel motivated to pick up the hammer and go for it.
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House & Home Building Guide: Money Saving snd Convenience Tips for the Building of Your New Home by James Todd. This guide will show you how to save thousands of dollars on your building project. If you are building an average sized house in the U.S. (~$150,000) you should be able to save $5000-$10,000 or about 5-10% of the construction costs of your home, without necessarily being the General Contractor (GC) on your house building project. This guide walks you through, step-by-step, and shows you exactly what you need to do to save money. But it goes well beyond that, by incorporating the logistics of how you save this money into an example set of specification and an example contract. What you get then, is not just a single document - but a set of four documents: The House and Home Building Guide, Sample Set of Specifications, Sample Building Contract, and Sample Blue Prints. Contains important healthy house building tips that will help you build a healthier house. This is especially important information for those with allergies or other chronic illnesses.Comes with a straight forward guarantee, either you are satisfied or you get your money back. Can be ordered online and downloaded immediately. |
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Do-It-Yourself Housebuilding: The Complete Handbook by George Nash, 1995. If this book's not complete, the seven hundred pages come pretty close to it. It has chapters on everything, starting with selecting a site and house plan and ending with landscaping. There are plenty of drawings, charts and photographs to illustrate the topics. For example there are almost three pages of drawings of various types of electrical boxes and their installation. The dialog is clear and easy to understand. You can learn why you need to do something, not just how to do it. Each chapter covers various types of building practices and materials and isn't limited to any particular style. For instance the roofing chapter covers asphalt shingles, wood shingles and shakes, concrete and clay tiles. Not only are there pictures of how to do things correctly, but there are occasional shots of owner-builder mistakes.
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Building Your Own House : Everything You Need to Know About Home Construction from Start to Finish/Part I & Part II by Robert Roskind , 2000. The author writes, "For over a decade this has been the bestselling book on building or contracting your own home. As founder and director of The Owner Builder Center, the country's largest owner/builder school, I taught thousands of people to build, remodel, contract and design their own homes. When I wrote this book, I included everything I, and the school, had learned on how to teach this mammoth subject to the general public. This book successfully takes you through every stage from design and lot selection to finishing. It contains hundreds of diagrams and photos for each step: common mistakes, margin of errors, tools and materials, time and labor needed,
and when codes or inspections might apply. By covering subjects such as electrical, plumbing, painting, wallpaper, flooring, ceilings, kitchens, energy conservation, decks, home security, etc., the book also works for people remodeling their own homes."
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Designing Your Natural Home by David Pearson, 2005 .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
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The Good Home: Interiors and Exteriors by Dennis Wedlick, 2001.What exactly makes a "good home"? According to the author, it is a house that is poetic, one that stimulates feelings and ideas. In The Good Home, readers will discover, step by step, the picturesque techniques they can use to give their house a sense of soul-a character that arouses emotions and sentiment. Drawing from a full-color portfolio of "soulful" homes, this guide examines such interior and exterior design techniques as focal points, shaped spaces, transparency, and enfilade, as well as, lighting, landscaping, and much more. For anyone considering building a house who likes traditional building styles with a contemporary twist, The Good Home will be an important addition to the library.
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Be Your Own Home Renovation Contractor: Save 30% without Lifting a Hammer (revised and updated) by Carl Heldman. This book explains finding and appraising a restorable structure, obtaining financing, and hiring subcontractors. Includes sample contracts, bids, inspection reports, insurance forms, and blueprints. 6x9, 176 pages, paperback.
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The How-To Guide to Building a Monolithic Concrete Slab Foundation DVD, produced by the folks at StrawBale.com. Details of 4 different types of foundation... knowing these will present you with some options you can use for your projects. Learn why a thorough site evaluation is absolutely essential and will save you time as the project progresses. Learn what to look for when clearing a site.... what to leave, and what to remove. Learn how to build around existing structures, eliminating the possibility of damaging existing structures. Know why it is essential to remove top soil to minimize the possibility of moisture coming up from below and cracking your concrete slab. Learn the different methods to check for the grade of your site. Find out the best type of gravel to use and the thickness you need for your concrete pad. Learn why it is essential to thoroughly compact the ground prior to pouring concrete to prevent cracking in your foundation.
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A Shelter Sketchbook-Timeless Building Solutions, by John Taylor. Architect Taylor offers hundreds of intricate sketches and notes on shelters of every kind which are functional and protect the inhabitants both man and animal. A good book to remove the mystery of house design. This is a book for builders, students and anyone seeking stimulation for imagination.
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The Distinctive Home: A Vision of Timeless Design by Jeremiah Eck, 2003. Jeremiah Eck believes that a distinctive home is the result of a balance between site, floor plan, exterior elements, and interior details. In The Distinctive Home, he describes the significance of each of the four elements and provides numerous examples of good design for each. Included are images and descriptions of 50 houses (ten of them the author’s own designs) that cover a wide range of styles, regions, and budgets. A final chapter unifies the four elements in detailed profiles of several of these houses, examining how their components work together to attain the status of "distinctive." He roams the country for examples of the distinction he prizes, finding it in Rhode Island beach homes and California bungalows, New England farmhouses and suburban custom jobs, all of which harmonize with their surroundings and within their parts to provide their tenants with daily domestic gratification. 360 color photographs and illustrations are included
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The Good House: Contrast As a Design Tool by Max Jacobson, et al,1990. Tells you how to create the details that make a place special, using a simple but powerful theory of linked contrasts. Highly readable, can be put to use by anyone. Few books offer such design insight, none in so few pages. I rank "The Good House" alongside Alexander's classic "A Pattern Language". --Lars Jensen
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The House You Build : Making Real-World Choices to Get the Home You Want by Duo Dickinson, 2004. Until now, homeowners have had to choose between the twin worlds of budget-friendly mediocrity and unaffordable fantasy. Responding to this gap, acclaimed architect Duo Dickinson demonstrates that a customhouse doesn't depend on a fabulous price tag. The House You Build offers a third way of building that is grounded in the realities of time and money, but focuses on your fondest hopes and dreams. Here are 20 real-world situations where unique and imaginative homes were built on real-life budgets. When you build on a budget, there are no right answers, only careful choices. There are 20 dreams in this book, and these dreams came true. The House You Build is the first book of architect-designed homes that presents the real costs of their construction including design fees, the Six Rules on Getting What You Want (and can afford), a broad range of house styles from all over the country, and homes that accommodate a wide variety of lifestyles. |
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Building Your Own Home For Dummies by Kevin Daum, Janice Brewster, Peter Economy, 2005. Thinking about building your own home? This easy-to-follow guide shows you how to plan and build a beautiful home on any budget. From acquiring land to finding the best architect to overseeing the construction, you get lots of savvy tips on managing your new investment wisely — and staying sane during the process!
Discover how to:
* Find the best homesite
* Navigate the plan approval process
* Obtain financing
* Hire the right contractor
* Cut design and construction costs
* Avoid common mistakes |
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Green Home Improvement: 65 Projects That Will Cut Utility Bills, Protect Your Health & Help the the Environment by Daniel D. Chiras, 2008. Over the past 30 years, Dan Chiras has retrofitted three homes to make them as energy-efficient and resource-efficient as humanly possible. He has worked with healthy, environmentally friendly paints, stains, and finishes. He's installed insulation and caulked and weather stripped to cut energy use. He's installed homemade interior storm windows. He's installed a solar hot water system and a solar electric system. Continuing his lifelong tradition of sharing what he's learned, he wrote this book to help mainstream America green up its act. Green Home Improvement contains 65 practical and affordable projects inside and outside your home. These projects are designed to reduce resource consumption, reduce pollution, create healthier homes, and build a greener world -- all the while saving you money.
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Construction Manual: Concrete & Formwork This manual has good information on how to select and pour the right mix for the job, excavate for foundations, lay out the structure, design and build the forms, and finish and cure the concrete. Shows how to build forms for piers and footings, foundation walls, steps, sidewalks, beams and girders, arched openings, and more. Includes reinforcing and placing rebar.
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Fundamentals of Residential Construction by Edward Allen, Rob Thallon, 2002, offers a complete, comprehensive presentation of today’s residential construction systems, from foundation to roof and from exterior finishes to interior details, including all mechanical and electrical systems. Wood light frame construction, the system by which most houses in North America are built, is emphasized. Industrialized systems of construction and alternative residential construction systems are also covered. The authors first provide a view of the context within which residential construction takes place, including zoning ordinances, building codes, financing, environmental concerns, and a look at the roles of the various professionals who work to produce housing of all types. The final portion of the book on alternative construction systems offers detailed explanations of currently popular options such as timber frame, log, rammed earth, straw bale, insulating concrete form, light-gauge steel frame, and panelized construction.
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A Small Cabin That One Person Can Build by Aristotle Locke Madison, 2006.
As reviewed by Kirkus Discoveries: 'Step-by-step instructions on how to build a home in an economical and artistically unique way. Owning a home doesn't have to be a trying ordeal, says Madison, who reports that he built his own house with little more than his own muscle power and ingenuity. Though he claims not to be particularly handy, he managed to create a fully functional cabin complete with electricity, running water and Internet access as part of a journey that was both fulfilling and therapeutic. He takes readers through the process, from cutting down trees and laying the foundation for the floor to installing piping and electricity to detailing plans to build additional modules. Pictures and diagrams complement the text, and the author even discusses his future plans to fully automate the cabin. In addition to the down-and-dirty details, he uses quotes from a number of philosophers-Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau and others-to help explain his motivation. It was as much about testing his own abilities as it was about creating a physical shelter. One one level, this is a practical guide that contains pertinent information for people who actually want to build their own cabin. On another, it's a fascinating look inside the mind of a man who chose to go against the grain and who writes with such folksy charm and comical practicality that you can't help but applaud him for bucking the system.
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No-Regrets Remodeling: Creating a Comfortable, Healthy Home That Saves Energy by Bruce Harley, 1997. Understanding the ways changing and "improving" our homes affects the comfort and performance of the whole house is a science that has advanced tremendously in the last ten years. This is the first book for the homeowner/do-it-your-selfer that makes all that building science accessible and practical. You'll save the price of the book the first month in reduced energy bills, and thank yourself every month for the added comfort and the peace of mind.
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Ecological Design by by Sim Van Der Ryn; Stuart Cowan, 2007. Ecological Design is a landmark volume that helped usher in an exciting new era in green design and sustainability planning. Since its initial publication in 1996, the book has been critically important in sparking dialogue and triggering collaboration across spatial scales and design professions in pursuit of buildings, products, and landscapes with radically decreased environmental impacts. This 10th anniversary edition makes the work available to a new generation of practitioners and thinkers concerned with moving our society onto a more sustainable path. Using examples from architecture, industrial ecology, sustainable agriculture, ecological wastewater treatment, and many other fields,Ecological Designprovides a framework for integrating human design with living systems. Drawing on complex systems, ecology, and early examples of green building and design, the book challenges us to go further, creating buildings, infrastructures, and landscapes that are truly restorative rather than merely diminishing the rate at which things are getting worse.
 TirolessaUSA Stucco Sprayer (available from Amazon.com). This stucco sprayer is a great tool to speed up your building process and save labor! Use with a minimum 7 cfm at 90 psi compressor (not included). For the larger jets, use at least a 12 cfm at 90 psi or larger compressor. This stucco spraying tool can be used to spray mortar, plaster, stucco, small scale shotcrete, papercrete, earthen mixes and more. It can be used for traditional plastering and many alternative building methods. It can apply plaster on strawbale, earthbags, insulated panels and thin shell ferrocement, shotcrete, and structural concrete insulated panels. This stucco sprayer is for heavy applications of 1/4" to 1" thickness. Typically it is used for brown coat, scratch coat, base coat, and slip coat applications.
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