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Good House Cheap House: Adventures in Creating an Extraordinary Home at an Everyday Price

Good House Cheap House: Adventures in Creating an Extraordinary Home at an Everyday PriceAuthor: Kira Obolensky
Creator: Randy O'Rourke
Publisher: Taunton Press
Category: Book

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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 19 reviews
Sales Rank: 46537

Media: Hardcover
Edition: illustrated edition
Pages: 185
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 8.7 x 0.9

ISBN: 1561587524
Dewey Decimal Number: 690.837
EAN: 9781561587520
ASIN: 1561587524

Publication Date: September 28, 2005
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Product Description
The 27 homes in "Good House Cheap House" prove that good design doesn't have to cost a fortune. What goes into making a good, cheap house? As writer Kira Obolensky discovers, there are three main ingredients: adventuresome homeowners who are actively involved; cutting-edge architects and designers who can solve tough design challenges; and an array of innovative uses of materials. Industrial bridge washers make for gorgeous mantelpiece rosettes, old concrete subflooring is given new life with rich-hued stain, and glass sliding doors make for windows that are oversized and affordable.
From a Texas farmhouse to a loft in St. Paul, to a prefab cabin on the Wisconsin prairie, these houses, in which anyone would feel at home, display a wonderful mix of design smarts and budget savvy. ""Good House Cheap House" is chock full of great ideas and creative solutions for those of us on a budget-but even the less financially-challenged can learn a thing or two about stylish and innovative design."
--Charles Burbridge, designer, HGTV's "Design on a Dime" "The cookie-cutter house trend has been around long enough. With its outside-the-box ideas and great resources, "Good House Cheap House" proves you can build a unique space without emptying your bank account."
--Amber Jones, Editor, "do! Magazine"


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3 out of 5 stars Ho Hum   July 2, 2009
S. Herrera (Taos, N.M.)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

The book title is a misnomer. If you are looking for inexpensive ideas to fix up your house, this book is not it. The author admits this much in the introduction when she says that the houses in the book are cheaper than a "typical builder house" but says you can't have a unique house without an architect and then says an architect bumps up the cost of your house by at least $10 a sq. ft. Ultimately the book is a book promoting architects and certain building products. IKEA must have given the author a special shout out for so zealously pushing their kitchen cabinets. The book is divided into chapters, each describing a particular house. Littered through the book -- almost in every chapter -- are numerous registered trademarked products. One chapter for a house called "Box" offers little to the homebuilder and is pretty much an advertisement for a new line of pre-fabricated houses a certain architect is promoting. You can find his contact information in the back of the book. That said, there are a few good ideas that these architects are coming up with that can be adapted by lay people to their own homes. For that, the book merits three stars.


3 out of 5 stars glad I bought a cheap used copy   June 10, 2009
befree
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

Nice photographs, and a few good ideas, but no how-to, and it's a book designed to push modern architecture and architects. I suppose it's a good picture book for those who like modern, so I gave it 3 stars, but I'm more of an Arts-and-Crafts era person, and it just wasn't what I was expecting. This one won't be a "keeper."


5 out of 5 stars Great Examples   October 12, 2007
Brian Everett
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I thought this book gave great examples of exactly what the book description led it to be. I'm surprised by some of the more negative reviews such as "this book features only modern style houses." It seems you could have figured that out from the photo on the front. It obviously is not a traditional house. Besides that fact, you shouldn't give it a bad review because of the style of the houses in the book. You could apply the ideas with any style you would prefer.

I will agree it would have been nice to see some floor plans though, to see what the people were working with. Overall, I think this is a great book though.


5 out of 5 stars ideas are free   January 5, 2007
Joan K. Ivan
7 out of 9 found this review helpful

How many times have my notions of my dream house been dismissed with "Who could afford that?" Start with a concept and figure out a way to make it work affordably.With willingness to spend time, research effort, and exploration, many dream concepts can become reality. I can't wait.


3 out of 5 stars Should add to title "And Owners who did a lot of work themselves"   July 12, 2006
greenie227 (Glenview, IL)
50 out of 51 found this review helpful

Lovely book, love the idea, got some great ideas for my remodel. However, the author makes clear that one of the most cost-savings measures the owners took, house after house, was to do the work, or some of it, themselves. That's great, if you already work with concrete or metal or can use autoCAD, but for the rest of us, it makes some of the ideas as expensive as before. In addition, the author relied on pictures in the book, which is always great, but the text didn't really cover all of the cost-savings ideas seen in the pictures. Going through the book, I kept wanting more and more detail.

Also, the plywood, IKEA cabinets and concrete are used over and over. Now, I love and plan to use all three, but it's not like the author shows us new ideas with each house.

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