House Thinking: A Room-By-Room Look at How We Live, (Paperback)

from jcbrunner

This book is a great addition to any library interested in home design, but it is far from perfect. The market, however, does not offer many alternative books besides glossy interior decoration/feng shui picture books and philosophical musings by architects. Gallagher offers a tour of a typical s...

from FoundationalWellness

If you are interested in a skillfully woven tapestry of random facts about the cultural history of living in houses, this is a fun piece of non-fiction. The organizational construct of going room by room permits effortless readability, but makes some of the content feel a bit contrived (e.g., a d...

from JenneB

I don't know if it's fair to mark this down for not being the book I wished it was. I heard the author interviewed on a podcast, and I got the impression that it would be about how to use the spaces in your house to achieve maximum comfort and awesomeness.Instead, it was really about the history ...

from Bcteagirl

I picked this book up years ago but for some reason it just sat on my shelf calling out to me. Finally I answered back. I am glad that I did. House Thinking takes a room by room look at what makes a house a home to us. How have homes changed over the years? (From multifamily dwellings with a gran...

from Bcteagirl

I picked this book up years ago but for some reason it just sat on my shelf calling out to me. Finally I answered back. I am glad that I did. House Thinking takes a room by room look at what makes a house a home to us. How have homes changed over the years? (From multifamily dwellings with a gran...