Designing Your Perfect House: Lessons from an Architect: Second Edition

Now William Hirsch’s Amazon #1 Bestseller Designing Your Perfect House: Lessons from an Architect is in its 2nd Edition. The timeless advice in this essential guidebook for navigating the often mystifying process of house design remodeling and building is forever valuable and is now better than ever with an all new Bonus Lesson Building Green Naturally. Master architect Hirsch draws on decades of experience and uses his enjoyable easy to read writing style to convey sage advice guaranteed to help you design or remodel the perfect house for you while controlling the process and saving money along the way.Presented in twelve understandable “lessons” this book explains in everyday language architectural concepts and design secrets that are essential to designing a dream home uniquely and perfectly your own. Beginning with an exploration of design philosophy the grammar of architecture concepts of spaces and discussions of how to make spaces be appropriate and gratifying for the people living in them these “lessons” explore issues of scale daylight making a house feel like a home unifying a design flow and proportions. All concepts that are too often overlooked in today’s homebuilding. Hirsch says “A great house doesn’t have to cost more. It just needs to be thought through properly.” In this book he shows you how to do it.Hirsch answers questions like: How do I get started? How do I select a building site? What kind of house can I afford within my budget? How do I make my dream house just right for me? Other topics include: site analysis and selection programming schematic design style room relationships budget working with professionals selecting a builder methods of contracting and more. Numerous beautiful color photos and drawings illustrate the book's major points. This book will pay for itself many many times over. Hardcover: 272 pagesPublisher: Dalsimer Press Inc.; Second Edition Second edition edition (August 15 2017)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0979882001ISBN-13: 978-0979882005 Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 1 x 9.4 inches Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds