The Smaller Home: Creating the Perfect Fit

by Dan F. Sater II

The Smaller Home offers interesting new ways of thinking about the home. Innovative and efficient use of space can make living easier, more economical, and more enjoyable. The Smaller Home includes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060891890
• ISBN13: 9780060891893
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.5" x 10.3"

Customer Reviews

Great book for ideas and a reality check!

This book really looks at the misconceptions many Americans have about designing a home for themselves. The book asks the potential new home clients to re-think their logic in determining what spaces they really need. It has useful charts for analyzing room and space needs and has many beautiful photos of homes.

The Average Size Home Doesn't Have to Be Average

Note that smaller in this book doesn't mean the really tiny homes that have been featured in a number of books lately. What Mr. Sater means by smaller is homes that are around the size of the national average, say 2,500 square feet or less. What this book clearly shows is that in homes of average size, the home does not have to be average in layout, furnishing, function, or anything else. Instead as the author says, the home should be a perfect fit for what you need the home to be. By being a perfect fit, he means that it should have the rooms, the space, the design to suit your use of the home. Do you entertain formally a lot, perhaps you need a formal dining room? Do you hate television and never turn it on, you don't need an entertainment center? Are you thinking of extra rooms for the annual visit of the kids, perhaps a pull down bed in the family room would suffice. This is the kind of thinking that he uses throughout this book, usually illustrating his thinking by pictures of houses that he has designed. It's a great idea book.