“A Not So Big House feels more spacious than many of its oversized neighbors because it is space with substance, all of it in use every day.” -Sarah Susanka
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Welcome to Hooked on Fridays, a blog party I host at the end of each week to celebrate the things we love. Today I’m hooked on Not So Big Houses, the name given to “right-sized homes” by the bestselling author and architect Sarah Susanka. If McMansions are about quantity (higher ceilings, more square footage), then the Not So Big House is about quality (better materials, thoughtful use of space).
Images via HGTV.com
Sometimes small changes can have a big impact. But many homeowners looking for more living space still insist on building expensive additions or completely rebuilding their home. In the latest groundbreaking step in the Not So Big revolution, Sarah Susanka and Marc Vassallo demonstrate how carefully chosen tweaks and simple additions can make a home seem much larger and more inviting.~They avoid high-end architectural solutions, focusing instead on how Not So Big ideas can dramatically improve even the most modest home. The authors show readers how to think like an architect, so they can accurately assess their homes shortcomings, apply Not So Big principles to their remodeling plan, and phase in their project incrementally over time.
HomeDigz is giving a copy of this book away! All you have to do to enter is visit the HomeDigz site and join the conversation going on in the forums–any conversation!
Every time you post a comment at HomeDigz between now and Tax Day (April 15), you’ll be entered to win!
Easy, right? Click here to check it out. Good luck!
Now it’s your turn to tell us what you’re hooked on. If you have something to share with us on your blog, then add your link below. Just please be sure to:
- Add the permalink to the specific blog post, not your general blog address.
- You can put what you’re hooked on in parentheses after your blog name. You’ll probably get more visitors that way! Ex: Hookedonhouses (Not So Big Houses)
- Link back to the party from your post so that your readers can come and see what everyone else is talking about today!
- Visit as many of the other participants as possible and leave comments! That’s what a blog party is all about!
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{Be sure to check out Fifi’s Fashionable Friday and Melissa’s Beautiful Life blog parties happening today, too!}
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We’ve got this book on our wish list now….how fabulous! Don’t know if the Spelling’s could use a book like this now – however, the rest of us could!
Going to check out the interview now – thanks!!
The Summer Kitchen Girls’s last blog post..Hooked on Two Dog Pond
Hi friend…this looks like a great book. And I’m hooked on my new little man who is finally here! (But I won’t put a link because it’s a little random for people that don’t know me!) But you can check out a few pics of him and his nursery over at Nesting instincts. xo
Courtney @ nesting instincts’s last blog post..the new (tiny) man in my life
Thank you for this post. I have lived in many a little house but by the time you stamp your personality on them, they can be beautiful and welcoming places.
Followed your link from the inspired nest and enjoyed all your inspirational posts.
Pearl Maple’s last blog post..Sky Watch Friday
sometimes the best house is something that is easily to clean and maintain.
Paul U’s last blog post..A trick to motivate yourself
I have her first book and pull it out frequently to read and gaze at the photos. I love her work and the way she thinks. It is the way more of us should look at the space we use – and actually need.
HI there Julia! We base everything in our lives on the “not so big” idea – especially as of late.
Great post! Thanks for sharing about her book!
sandy’s last blog post..Rolling Plant Dollies – and Yard Saling!
I am hooked on getting things finished! Here I have posted about making two chandeliers out of one
Cheryl Comfort’s last blog post..Two new chandeliers~
Do you know how I found this site? Looking to find contemporary photos of houses, I know I’m definetely hooked on houses, and everyone that knows me says it.
I answered yes to all the questions. I love to decorate not just my house, but others too.
I look into people homes as I pass by, I get really excited if it’s contemporary. My family and friends come to my house and they get tired of watching HGTV that’s all I watch, building homes, decorating, buying, selling, etc.
Glad to know it’s people that has the same interest as I do.
Angel H.´s last blog ..Decorating My House for the Holidays
I love Sarah Susanka and her entire philosophy of the “not so big house” I have two of her books; The Not So Big House and Creating the Not So Big House. On pages 30 and 91 of The Not So Big House is a kitchen in a London studio that takes the “less is more” idea to an extreme with breathtaking results. I don’t have a space that would lend itself to this kitchen (tucked under the stairs) but it sent my mind spinning. Goes to show that we all could do with a LOT less space and still be “oh-so-stylish”. Ms Susanka calls this kitchen a small jewel. More like a
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