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September 19, 2023
Very cute! Always hard to rate an artbook, especially one this seemingly ephemeral (and part of a series, which means I'm missing context). Overall I found it easy to flip through, very attractive, and honestly solid for coming up with new space-saving ideas.
A list of thoughts:
- a few typos! nothing egregious
- REALLY lovely and well-arranged photography
- always easy to picture the layouts in full, which is often a nitpick I have with these sorts of books; THANK YOU for the floor plans!!!
- why was one of these people straight up a landlord renting their giant house for income and choosing to live in their heavily remodeled basement. you and i are not the same
- a lot of non-disabled/fat-accessible suggestions (narrow hallways, items that have to be moved daily, laddered sleeping lofts) though that's a perennial issue and also did I mention the landlord
- some really good creative solutions I haven't seen elsewhere!!
- spread across countries and continents, though predictable focus on US/Europe/Japan
My favorite solutions were definitely reliance on textiles to separate space, baskets hung on hooks hung on ladders/chair backs/etc to utilize vertical space without drilling into walls, and ohmygod the BALCONIES. I want these balconies so bad. Can't stress enough how much this made me lust after balconies. Also loved the vast diversity of color palettes; though there were a lot of white walls, that didn't mean the homes weren't colorful, and I definitely need that as a renter right now. Maybe I'll just get a hundred colorful throw pillows.
Recommend if you're interested, though I don't know where you'd get it (I found it thrifting). It's honestly hard to find any of these kinds of books with new ideas, so I'm happy I saw a couple here even if I'll likely wind up scraping just a couple pages for my house-ideas doc. I'm almost certainly going to share it with people I know, which is enough of a rec for me.
A list of thoughts:
- a few typos! nothing egregious
- REALLY lovely and well-arranged photography
- always easy to picture the layouts in full, which is often a nitpick I have with these sorts of books; THANK YOU for the floor plans!!!
- why was one of these people straight up a landlord renting their giant house for income and choosing to live in their heavily remodeled basement. you and i are not the same
- a lot of non-disabled/fat-accessible suggestions (narrow hallways, items that have to be moved daily, laddered sleeping lofts) though that's a perennial issue and also did I mention the landlord
- some really good creative solutions I haven't seen elsewhere!!
- spread across countries and continents, though predictable focus on US/Europe/Japan
My favorite solutions were definitely reliance on textiles to separate space, baskets hung on hooks hung on ladders/chair backs/etc to utilize vertical space without drilling into walls, and ohmygod the BALCONIES. I want these balconies so bad. Can't stress enough how much this made me lust after balconies. Also loved the vast diversity of color palettes; though there were a lot of white walls, that didn't mean the homes weren't colorful, and I definitely need that as a renter right now. Maybe I'll just get a hundred colorful throw pillows.
Recommend if you're interested, though I don't know where you'd get it (I found it thrifting). It's honestly hard to find any of these kinds of books with new ideas, so I'm happy I saw a couple here even if I'll likely wind up scraping just a couple pages for my house-ideas doc. I'm almost certainly going to share it with people I know, which is enough of a rec for me.
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