Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter

February/March 2006
Bill Steen 
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Looking for the cure to the common home? You'll find all the inspiration you'll need about unique, handmade and offbeat shelter in Lloyd Kahn's newest book,

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Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter. Packed with 1,100 photos and 300 illustrations of dwellings, domes, houses and huts from all points around the globe, this remarkable 245-page book is about the eclectic materials used to make these homes and the eccentric dreamers and doers that built them.

If you dream of building your own home, or you just like unusual and inspiring buildings, Home Work is about as entertaining a companion as you can find. It's a great read, and it provokes visionary thinking and new ideas. Your library of alternative building books won't be complete without it. Go to MOTHER EARTH SHOPPING to order this book.
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  • ANDREW webster 12/5/2006 12:00:00 AM

    csutherland-- i found a copy about a year ago. i highly
    recommend it. it's a beautiful book. i just found one called
    Woodstock Handmade Homes or something like that at a local used
    bookshop. hoping santa claus can bring me a copy...

  • Lynny Cordes 2/27/2006 12:00:00 AM

    Here is that book on Amazon...looks like a cool coffee table
    book! Hope this
    helps!http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0891040013/002-1332271-3622459?v=glance&n=283155

  • BECKI SUTHERLAND 2/24/2006 12:00:00 AM

    i am also interested in a much older book titledhand wood houses
    ; a guide to the wood butchers art.i believe the authors name was
    barrie shapiro.

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