Re: [GBlist] small houses

["Robert Jordan" <rjordan91@charter.net>]

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From: "Alan Abrams" <awabrams@starpower.net>
To: <greenbuilding@crest.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 9:59 PM
Subject: [GBlist] small houses


> Compare notes with Witold Rybczinski's essay on "Grow
> Homes" (was it in "Looking Around?"--loaned my copy to
> my brother and never saw it again) --14' wide, two
> story--the upstairs is unfinished intentionally.  the
> demonstration project sold like hotcakes
>

I'm pretty sure that this was written up in Home Energy - in the last year I
think.

> http://www.sheridanc.on.ca/~randy/design.dir/house.dir/
> witold.htm
>
> Alan Abrams, AIBD
>
> > <excerpt>=A0 Also, we fall prey to the dictum that
> for a house to be
> > marketable it must have certain features, namely
> formal living rooms
> > and dining rooms, rooms that are rarely if ever used
> but occupy a
> > large amount of space and decorating dollars.=A0 I
> have heard this over
> > and over again.=A0 In the past, I have accepted it
> and allowed it to
> > shape my choices in housing.=A0=20
> >
>
>
>
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