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Eco House Book [Paperback]

Terence Conran

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July 4 2012
In today's world, when making home improvements, there is more to consider than simply changing the way your home looks or functions. Environmental issues should be part of every decision you make - from selecting fabric for soft furnishings to designing and siting a home extension. Eco House Book provides all the information you need to reduce your home's carbon footprint and directly improve your quality of life.

Most homes are not decorated, designed, constructed or serviced with ecofriendliness in mind. But you don't have to start again from scratch to make a huge difference to the way your home impacts on the environment. There is a great deal we can do to convert our existing homes into greener, healthier places to live. Eco House Book explains how relatively small changes can be made, including simple repairs to improve energy efficiency and water saving tips, to more dramatic overhauls such as redesigning room use, converting basements and extending your home.

Special focus is given to reducing the vast amounts of energy and water that homes consume on a daily basis, with advice on low energy lighting strategies and decorative choices, improving insulation and reducing energy use, the latest green heating systems, alternative ways of generating power, and electricity reducing appliances. As we are urged to change our lifestyles to reduce our carbon footprint and consumption of water, there has never been a better time to green your home.


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This large-format publication continues Conran's long-standing "House Book" series. His design influence in the UK is perhaps equivalent to Martha Stewart's here. Not as comprehensive as his Ultimate House Book, this new effort, devoted to green building touches on siting, orientation, building materials, finishes, gardens, recyling, energy saving, and home-scale energy generation. Conran also dicusses conversions and adding on. Quality color photographs show innovative design approaches and detailing, though carpets and curtains are rare. In the final section,"Case Studies," Conran profiles 17 green homes located in Europe, the United States, and Australia. Whether new builds or renovations, most featured reused materials. Each receives a floor plan or sectional drawing. Terminology is steadfastly British, and a resource list contains only a few American items. However, homeowners will find inspiration in these images of places attuned to nature. VERDICT: This worthy and sophisticated promotion of green building is recommended to those considering home additions or looking for design ideas. (Library Journal 2009) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Terence Conran is one of the world's leading designers, furniture-makers, restaurateurs, retailers. He is Chairman of Conran Holdings, the parent company of his retail and restaurant businesses, and Chairman of Conran & Partners, his architecture and design practice. There are Conran Shops in New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Marunouchi, Nagoya and Fukuoka. Terence Conran also designs furniture for Content and Benchmark. In 1989 he founded the Design Museum, the first of its kind in the world, and he is the Provost of the Royal College of Art.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Going Green, Sensibly Mar 4 2010
By Pamela Robinson - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
Too often, books on green building hector their readers, or at best, pay a little lip service to environmental issues while pushing products. Not so "Eco House Book," by Terence Conran, who has written yet another sensible work that should help homeowners to think carefully about their living spaces.

Conran identifies and explains what we're seeing, moving from a house built to survive the wind on a desert mesa in New Mexico, to a home in Chicago designed to capture natural light to an off-the-grid home in Oregon and to a home in Sweden that is entirely unpainted but still well-insulated and warm, and plenty of other structures along the way.

Each of the 17 homes illustrates a point in a given category: services (energy and heating, for example), basic fabric, meaning windows, floors, etc., design, outdoor spaces and maintenance. Photos and text flow together, taking readers on an architectural and design tour of the many possibilities, given the landscape and weather of where the home is located and the preferences of their owners.

Though many of the homes shown here are in the United States, this is very much a British book, but that shouldn't get in the way of Americans looking to build a green life. The terms may differ; the cause and value do not.

Intelligence, not preaching, reigns in this pages, and readers are left with a sense of empowerment, knowing that they too, with some thought, can live healthier lives and yet not sacrifice beauty or practicality in the process.
3.0 out of 5 stars Focus on "Global Warming" Distracting April 7 2013
By Rachel - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
As a compilation of ecologically sound, sustainable options and practices regarding housing, this is fantastic. A great summary of your options with just enough information to let you figure out which ones you want to research further, with great resources listed in the back.

My one criticism is that the author writes with the assumption that everyone agrees with him that Global Warming is THE problem in the world today, and that focusing on carbon emissions are the way to fix it. I happen to disagree with him that global warming is man made and that we face far bigger problems in the form of pollution and landfills and endangered species etc. I believe that the solutions to these problems are made on a much more personal and active level than waiting on tax breaks and government recommendations to do our work for us. This sadly made a beautiful (many of the photographs are simply stunning and very inspiring) book that should have been very enjoyable to read into something that I grit my teeth through.

Nevertheless, it is a good book, and Mr. Conran's expertise in actually designing these houses shines through.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Funky Cover worth price of admission! Jan 21 2010
By Peter Dandyk - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
You can judge a book by it's cover!!
Excellent effort and it look great on your coffee table to boot.

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