Independent Builder: Designing & Building a House Your Own Way

Clarke, Sam

ISBN 10: 0930031857 / ISBN 13: 9780930031855

Published by Chelsea Green Publishing Co, 1996

About this Item

Light shelf wear to extremities.

Seller Inventory # 731537

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Independent Builder: Designing & Building a House Your Own Way
• Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0930031857
• ISBN 13: 9780930031855
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 41 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • ARCHITECTURE

About this title

Synopsis

This is a comprehensive manual of design and building methods for owner-builders as well as professional builders and their clients. In addition to presenting specific building techniques, the book explains the design principles and planning processes that underlie all good building, so that readers can develop their own exceptional designs, independently.

Independent Builder develops subjects not covered thoroughly in other books, but critical to success:

• Designing small houses that seem big
• Understanding innovation
• Estimating and controlling costs
• Incorporating ergonomics and accessibility
• Doing drawings and scale models
• Making contracts that work

About the Author

Sam Clark is a builder who has worked with owner-builders since the late 1960's. His book Designing and Building Your Own House Your Own Way helped thousands of people manage their building projects. He is also the author of The Motion-Minded Kitchen, and co-author (with Margaret Wylde and Adrian Baron-Robbins) of Building For a Lifetime. Sam works with Iron Bridge Woodworkers and with The Buildings Group (accessible design and facilities planning), both based in Plainfield, Vermont. He also has his own design company http://www.samclarkdesign.com/