Reviews

Tiny Houses: or How to Get Away From It All by Lester Walker

stenaros's review

5.0

I passed away a delightful afternoon studying the architectural drawings in this book. Some of my favorites: Tent House, which is made mostly of nylon, but which can be folded up into a tight locked structure when you are away from it. George Bernard Shaw's Writing Hut which could be rotated to follow the sun. 1950's Ranch House which is a tiny version of the house we all know. Also the Dune Shack which at the time of publication could still be found in the dunes of Cape Cod.

This is great inspirational reading for anyone who dreams of having a small space of her own. It also highlights great innovations in small space technology. I'm sure I will turn to this again and again.

astronomist's review

5.0

"Tiny houses before they were cool" as my dad likes to call this book.

jameseckman's review

4.0

Published back in 1987, this is one of the original tiny house books. It covers historical tiny homes, including such esoteric items like the San Francisco earthquake refugee shacks, chattel houses, revival camp dwellings and much more. On the more modern side, it covers trailers, shed, motels and some fairly strange designs of the kind that showed up in Popular Mechanics before they dropped most of their serious DIY. The book includes scads of black and white photos and well executed line drawings. While not intended as a full blown DIY book on the subject, handypersons could build many of these from the information given.