The Barefoot Home: Dressed-Down Design for Casual Living
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.73 (522 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B001SARA7W |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 218 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-17 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
As our lives at home have become increasingly informal, the "barefoot living" lifestyle has emerged and there is increased demand to carry this attitude over into home design. Relaxed, open, filled with light, and intimately connected to the outdoors, barefoot houses make living at home feel like being on vacation 365 days a year. Kitchens are no longer just for cooking but serve as entertainment hubs; barbeques on the grill have replaced formal dinners. From a long, low house on the Kansas prairie to an adobe home in New Mexico and a New England cottage by the sea, these homes capture the essence of barefoot living.. The 24 houses featured in "The Barefoot Home" reflect today's barefoot times. As our personal and professional lives become more demanding and hectic, people have re
Marc hits the nail on the head when he says that we no longer need formal living and dining rooms--it just doesn't fit the way we live anymore. And we’re spending just as much time enjoying the outside of our homes as we are the inside. He lays out the ground rules in the first few pages in his chapter called "barefoot dreams," in which he asks readers to "Pour yourself a tall glass of something cool, sit back, flip off your shoes, put your feet up, and dream with you eyes wide open." If that doesn't convince you to check out The Barefoot Home, our guest review from the beloved architect, author, and "cultural visionary" Sarah Susanka surely will. In a barefoot home, you can feel like you’re on vacation 365 days a year, a lifestyle that's much more in tune with the way we REALLY live today--at least when we're not at work. Marc has assembled and described, in his inimitable style,
Eye candy? Yep. And so much more. Don't let the beautiful photography fool you, this is more than just a 'coffee table book' you'll look at once and forget. Sampling houses from a broad range of architectural styles that are set in a wide variety of environments Marc Vassallo pulls out the elements that make each a "Barefoot Home". It's an attitude and the thought that your house should be. One of the Best Kindle Customer This is an excellent house design book. It's a very functional book ,you'll probably examine your house plans in a new light after reading this.I appreciated the content of the book; excellent pictures, floor plans for every house (you would think every design book would include this, but no)and a range of house sites from coast to coast and urban to count. "The Not So Big House with a stylish twist" according to school living club. If you're familiar with Susan Susanka's Not So Big House series, you'll feel right at home here. Author Mark Vassallo co-wrote Inside the Not So Big House and like Susanka, takes a stand against overly-large houses made to impress, focusing instead, on casual, intimate houses based on the way "we really live." Vassallo's taste is less dowdy than Susanka's