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Title: Living Large in Small Spaces: Expressing Personal Style in 100 to 1,000 Square Feet by Marisa Bartolucci, Radek Kurzaj ISBN: 0-8109-9105-5 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Solace for Those of Us Living in Teeny-Weeny Places
Comment: I recently moved into a <600-sf house with my husband and 33-lb dog. My decorating skills are very minimal, and I end up doing most of my shopping at IKEA. And so it was a pleasant surprise to find this book, which I came across while browsing in the interior design section of a bookstore.
Of course, I had to force myself to pull it out and look at it, since I've been so immensely disappointed by almost all of the books on the subjects of "small" spaces (probably because most of these books define small as 1,000 to 1,999 sf) and since I'm interested in more than just pretty pictures.
Lo and behold, this book, which is largely wonderfully detailed photos of real people's real small spaces (including a 100-sf dorm room and 2 couples with babies living in less than 500 sf), is inspiring in the most practical sense of the word. It's reassuring just to know that other people in the universe reside in sub-1000-sf quarters.
While it is true that many of the featured small-space livers are artists/designers of some sort, with skills that the average Jane doesn't have, I see it less as a book whose ideas you'd want to copy and more of a book whose ideas you'd want to emulate, and I quickly found several good ideas I could apply to my own spaces. Plus, I'm not even half-done just going through it and absorbing the minutiae of each photo and each apartment.
The best part(s)? No fancy-schmancy lofts (with the exception of one converted factory space) and no excessive and gratuitous photos of Wolf ranges and Miele dishwashers.
I couldn't find it used, but I can't feel too much regret about buying it for full price.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great for Useful Ideas
Comment: This may be the best book out there right now on dealing creatively with small spaces. Most of the others I have seen feature gorgeous Manhattan or European lofts, or are the homes of architects and designers. They are eye candy, but not much help.
This book is quite inspiring, however. It's unfortunately short on sources, giving only a brief list of featured designers at the back, but the pictures are clear and the little accounts that go with them are written by the people who actually live in the apartments and they offer some useful ideas. And when a book acknowledges that some of us do live in less than even 1,000 feet, that's a book that's operating on a level of reality I can appreciate, because I live in 544 feet. Some of the apartments in the book are much smaller. I finally feel a little validated.
Another thing I like about it is that it's not a coffee-table- book size: it's manageable to hold and look through, even standing up. It is organized by size, from smallest to largest.
Definitely worth a look.
Rating: 2
Summary: Pretty and Informative, But Not a How-To
Comment: This book has lovely pictures and good information; but the problem I found with it is that it is not the how-to for living in small spaces that I was looking for.
Several of the homes are more art project than living space. I agree with a previous reviewer who noted that few of houses seemed inviting, comfortable, or very functionable for every-day life.
If you are a student, as I am, looking for a practicle guide to living in a small area, such as a dorm or first apartment, this book is of little use. If you have the time, money, ambition, and know-how to redesign your small living-space, this book may offer some good ideas.
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Title: Compact Living by Jane Graining ISBN: 1579590268 Publisher: SOMA Books Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Studio Apartments: Big Ideas for Small Spaces by James Grayson Trulove, Il Kim ISBN: 0688168299 Publisher: Hearst Books Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Small Apartments by Alejandro Bahamon ISBN: 0060546344 Publisher: Harper Design International Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Terence Conran Small Spaces : Inspiring Ideas and Creative Solutions by Terence Conran ISBN: 0609609408 Publisher: Clarkson Potter Pub. Date: 11 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Small Urban Interiors: 500 Solutions for Living by Ana Cristina G. Canizares, Aurora Cuito, Ana Cristina G. Caanizares ISBN: 0789306670 Publisher: Universe Books Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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