Compact Living

by JaneGraining (Author), Dominic Blackmore (Photographer)

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.23

  An inspirational and practical book for anyone setting up home, whether in a small country cottage, urban studio flat or anywhere where space is at a premium. It offers inventive ideas for increasing the amount of living space without the expense of moving house and includes town, country, family and solo living. Jane Graining reveals, room by room, how to achieve stylish results whatever your budget. With ideas on how to use your furniture, fixtures and fittings to best effect, this volume also contains case studies that offer solutions to cope with changing circumstances, such as the arrival of a child or a decision to work from home.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1999

  $4.67

  Compact Living takes a positive approach to the problems of small-space living, revealing how a tiny home can be an advantage, with its compactness and simplicity, as well as showing how to make the best of small spaces by cheating perspective and planning inventively. This book reveals how to achieve stylish results on any budget, with room by room ideas and detailed information on furniture, fixtures and fittings. Accompanying case histories of real homes, with full details of how to recreate them inexpensively, make Compact Living an inspirational and practical reference for anyone setting up a small home.