The Rustic "Temporary" Microhouse
(Page 11 of 12)
June/July 1998
By John Vivian
Microhouse Living
The Outermost House; A Year dale on the Grout Beach of Cape Cod by Henry Beston Holt, 1992). Reprint Edition. Beston was a naturalist who lived simply in a micro house on Cape Cod in the 1920s, before it became a tourist attraction. Another low-priced classic for microhouse fans.
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Timberframing
Building the Timber Frame House by Tedd Benson (Scribner, 1986). Reprint Edition.
Timber Fame Construction by Jack Sobon (Storey, 1983).
Build a Classic Timber Frame House by Jack Sobon (Storey, 1994). Call Mother's Bookshelf (1-800-888-9098) and ask for book MEB166.
Conventional France Construction
Basie Construction Techniques (U.S. Navy, 1949). Reprint by Lindsay Publications (1998). Best book on housebuilding ever written.
(Lindsay Publications, Inc. P.O. Sox 538. Bradley, IL 60915 tel: (815) 935-5353 FAX: (815) 935-5477).
Microhouse Designs and Plans
A Shelter Sketchbook: Timeless Building Solutions by John S. Taylor (Chelsea Green, 1997). An aptly renamed reprint of architectural designer Taylor's 1983 Commonsense Architecture that illustrates in charming pen & ink drawings over 600 housing ideas devised by preindustrial mankind from caves to tree houses to thatched buts to canal boats. Utilities, solar heating and cooling too. Nearly all designs shown would qualify as microhouses today.
Tiny Tiny Houses or How To Get
Away From All by Lester Walker (The Overlook Press, 1997). Area reasonably priced coffee table book full of plans and photos of dozens of innovative and successful very smart home designs. Good ideas for compact utilities and furnishings as well. You need this book too. Call Mother's Bookshelf (1-800-888 9098) and ask for book MEB218.
Healthy House
The Heating House, How Living In the Right House Can Heal You Spiritually, Emotionally and Physically by Barbara Bannon Harwood (Hay House, 1997). Mrs. Harwood is a grandmother of eight, an environmental activist, and general building contractor in Texas. She makes goad sense of the many—often flaky—influences in the healthy house movement.
Unlike other "Greenwrapped" catalog-type titles on natural houses, this is a proper book that is eminently readable, neither proselytizing nor self-serving, and it features real homes and real people. Especially helpful on natural cooling and water supply and disposal systems for folks building in desert country.
Utilities
"The Secrets of Low Tech Plumbing" by John Vivian. MOTHER EARTH News #150, July, 1995: p. 34.
College Water System: An Out-of-the-City Guide to Pumps, Plumbing, Wafer Purification, and Privies by Max Burns (Firefly Books, 1993).
The Home Water Supply: How to Find; Filter, Store, and Conserve It by Stu Campbell (Storey, 1983).
Log Working Tools
BAILEY'S WOODSMANS' SUPPLIES. Free catalog: 1-800-322-4539 or www.bbaileys.com
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