Building Our House
Author: Jonathan Bean
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-01-08
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 0374380236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA family of four builds a house, back, away from the road, down a dirt lane, in the middle of an old, weedy field.
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The Complete Visual Guide to Building a House
Author: John Michael Carroll
Publisher:
Published: 2014-03-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781600850226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLockhart and Carroll take readers step by step through a series of helpful illustrations that present solutions for building a home.
Building Wealth One House at a Time: Making it Big on Little Deals
Author: John Schaub
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Published: 2004-12-31
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0071466495
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStrategies for creating real estate wealth by star ting small--and always making the right moves Nationally known real estate expert John Schaub learned his craft in the best way possible--on the job, and through every kind of market. Over three decades, he learned to bank consistent profits as he built an impressive real estate mini-empire. Building Wealth One House at a Time reveals how virtually anyone can accumulate one million dollars worth of houses debtfree and earn a steady cash flow for life. Unique in that it focuses on buying houses in good-quality neighborhoods, Schaub's nine-step program includes: Renting to long-term tenants, with financial incentives to pay on time Avoiding the temptation of bigger deals, which invariably include bigger problems A 10-year plan to pay off debt and own houses free and clear
So... You Want To Build a House
Author: Jeanne Gore
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Published: 2010-06-27
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 0071491236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShows homeowners how to stay within one percent of their budget Delivers the perfect balance of information--covers everything homeowners need to know without overwhelming details Ready-to-use worksheets save time and money Tells homeowners who to meet with, when to meet, and how to track progress and control costs
Pretty Good House
Author: Michael Maines
Publisher: Taunton Press
Published: 2022-05-24
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781641551656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPretty Good House provides a framework and set of guidelines for building or renovating a high-performance home that focus on its inhabitants and the environment--but keeps in mind that few people have pockets deep enough to achieve a "perfect" solution. The essential idea is for homeowners to work within their financial and practical constraints both to meet their own needs and do as much for the planet as possible. A Pretty Good House is: * A house that's as small as possible * Simple and durable, but also well designed * Insulated and air-sealed * Above all, it is affordable, healthy, responsible, and resilient.
Inside Out
Author: Glenn Williamson
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Published: 2014-02
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1480805246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Inside Out, author Glenn Williamson explains the award-winning development of St. Petersburg's first modern Class A office/retail center by a multinational team of Americans, Russians, Brits, Turks, and Finns. Inside Out provides a fascinating memoir of his experiences working as a developer in Russia in the 1990s while balancing a home life with a new baby son. With unique and astute anecdotes, it offers insights into Russia, its people, and its culture. Inside Out, funny and serious, sincere and sarcastic, narrates the anatomy of a real estate deal. Now, at a time when America and Russia consider ways to reset their relations, Williamson's story shows how actual players on all sides of a complex business and personal adventure looked for, and ultimately found, a common language.
The House That She Built
Author: Mollie Elkman
Publisher: Builderbooks
Published: 2021-09
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780867187854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe House That She Built is inspired by and dedicated to the REAL women behind the home built exclusively by a team of women in construction, skilled tradeswomen, and women-owned companies. The House That She Built educates young readers about the people and skills that go into building a home. One by one, children learn about the architect, framer, roofer and many more as they contribute their individual skills needed to complete the collective project -- a new home. With illustrations that connect and empower and words that build upon each other with each page, this book will leave all kids (she, he, and they) excited about their own skills and interested in learning new ones.
Building Houses out of Chicken Legs
Author: Psyche A. Williams-Forson
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2006-12-08
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0807877352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChicken--both the bird and the food--has played multiple roles in the lives of African American women from the slavery era to the present. It has provided food and a source of income for their families, shaped a distinctive culture, and helped women define and exert themselves in racist and hostile environments. Psyche A. Williams-Forson examines the complexity of black women's legacies using food as a form of cultural work. While acknowledging the negative interpretations of black culture associated with chicken imagery, Williams-Forson focuses her analysis on the ways black women have forged their own self-definitions and relationships to the "gospel bird." Exploring material ranging from personal interviews to the comedy of Chris Rock, from commercial advertisements to the art of Kara Walker, and from cookbooks to literature, Williams-Forson considers how black women arrive at degrees of self-definition and self-reliance using certain foods. She demonstrates how they defy conventional representations of blackness and exercise influence through food preparation and distribution. Understanding these complex relationships clarifies how present associations of blacks and chicken are rooted in a past that is fraught with both racism and agency. The traditions and practices of feminism, Williams-Forson argues, are inherent in the foods women prepare and serve.
The Straw Bale House
Author: Athena Swentzell Steen
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0930031717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany copies in stock but still heavy demand; only a few titles published on this subject. Very popular in rural WA too.
Building the Japanese House Today
Author: Peggy Landers Rao
Publisher:
Published: 2005-10
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe traditional Japanese house is universally admired for its clean lines, intricate joinery, and unparalleled woodworking. The authors of this elegant volume, Peggy Landers Rao and Len Brackett, show how a classic Japanese- style house can be built to offer the warmth and comfort that modern homeowners require. Len Brackett, rigorously trained in traditional architecture in Kyoto, has spent decades adapting the ancient Japanese design aesthetic to Western needs. He builds traditional live-on-the-floor houses, as well as versions that accommodate furniture. Both types provide the essential features expected in today's new homes - central heating, insulation, weather stripping, thermal glazing, streamlined kitchens, computerized lighting systems, and the latest electronics. The book's primary focus is on a single guesthouse in California, but pictures of other adaptations of the traditional Japanese house in America exemplify various points. Architects will find reference charts of the prescribed set of proportions and dimensions normally passed down through a strict system of apprenticeship. anticipating shrinkage of various woods. A remarkable tool used to lay out precise joints is described in detail. Various sources are given for materials, including where to find a contemporary version of the distinctive, traditional earthen plaster.
