{"product_id":"designing-your-natural-house-9780471285281","title":"Designing Your Natural House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Everyone who designs a house should have to memorize the rules in this book . before being allowed to purchase a drafting pencil. Mac and Charles have managed to consolidate most everything they know about residential design with wit  Clarity  and excellent sketches\" -- David Wright  Noted Solar Designer and Environmental Architect  Designing Your Natural House Charles G. Woods and Malcolm Wells As concerns about our mistreatment of the environment keep growing  the trend toward housing that blends with rather than works against natural surroundings continues to accelerate. This important guide explores and illustrates all aspects of how to integrate dwellings with their natural settings. The authors are leading names in the natural design field whose work has been inspired by the contour-friendly  organic style of Frank Lloyd Wright. Charles G. Woods and Mclcolm Wells offer a wide range of invaluable design tips for both constructing new houses and remodeling existing ones. Every design they cover is in accordance with todays ecological and environmental concerns. Beautifully illustrated and hand lettered throughout  this guide explains how to choose the best site design  lay out floor plans  landscape  and incorporate energy-efficient features wherever possible. Youre shown how to solve many design  ecological  and environmental problems  as well as how to keep design costs as low as possible. Numerous before-and-after graphics clarify every stage in the design process  and do and dont examples help you avoid common mistakes encountered when designing natural dwellings. Included are 150 money- and energy-saving tips more than 200 tricks of the trade that help assure exemplary results  and sample house plans (which you can order) that promote further understanding of how to integrate designs with the natural site. Designing Your Natural House is timely  comprehensive  and visually appealing  making it an ideal source for architects  contractors  interior designers  landscape architects  do -it-yourselfers  and remodelers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651617120309,"sku":"ByrdShop_0471285285","price":119.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780471285281.jpg?v=1781836485","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/designing-your-natural-house-9780471285281","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}