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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 728
EAN: 9781561588077
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 1561588075
Label: Taunton
Manufacturer: Taunton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: September 05, 2006
Publisher: Taunton
Release Date: September 05, 2006
Sales Rank: 61197
Studio: Taunton
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Product Description:
As our personal and professional lives become more demanding and hectic, people have reacted with a more casual, relaxed, and open way of living at home. Kitchens are no longer just for cooking but serve as entertainment hubs; barbeques on the grill have replaced formal dinners. As our lives at home have become increasingly informal, the “barefoot living” lifestyle has emerged and there is increased demand to carry this attitude over into home design.
Relaxed, open, filled with light, and intimately connected to the outdoors, barefoot houses make living at home feel like being on vacation 365 days a year. The 24 houses featured in The Barefoot Home reflect today’s barefoot times. From a long, low house on the Kansas prairie to an adobe home in New Mexico and a New England cottage by the sea, these homes capture the essence of barefoot living.
Amazon.com Review:
Marc Vassallo's The Barefoot Home should come with a warning label: 'This Book May Cause You to Sell, Buy, or Remodel a House within Hours of Reading.' Gorgeous photographs fill this book to the brim, and every page that is not covered with photos and mini house plans called 'footprints' is full of smart, helpful, inspirational text. Vassallo wants you to read The Barefoot Home as much as he wants to enjoy the stunning layout. He lays out the ground rules in the first few pages in his chapter called 'barefoot dreams,' in which he asks readers to 'Pour yourself a tall glass of something cool, sit back, flip off your shoes, put your feet up, and dream with you eyes wide open.' If that doesn't convince you to check out The Barefoot Home, our guest review from the beloved architect, author, and 'cultural visionary' Sarah Susanka surely will. --Daphne Durham
Guest Reviewer: Sarah Susanka
 Almost 10 years after The Not So Big House came out, it's reassuring to see that houses really are starting to get smaller. Over the past year I've been interviewed time and again for articles describing a growing backlash against the mega-houses that have been built across the country in recent decades.
Houses aren't only getting smaller, they're also becoming less formal, a trend picked up by my good friend and coauthor (of Inside the Not So Big House) Marc Vassallo in his new book, The Barefoot Home. Marc hits the nail on the head when he says that we no longer need formal living and dining rooms--it just doesn't fit the way we live anymore. And we’re spending just as much time enjoying the outside of our homes as we are the inside. In a barefoot home, you can feel like you’re on vacation 365 days a year, a lifestyle that's much more in tune with the way we REALLY live today--at least when we're not at work.
I was lucky enough to be one of the very first readers to receive a copy of The Barefoot Home and as I leafed through it, I could almost feel the sand between my toes. Marc has assembled and described, in his inimitable style, 20 excellent examples of houses that are both Not So Big in form, and decidedly Not So Formal in function. As Marc recommends in his 'barefoot manifesto,' it's time to kick off your shoes, open up, embrace the sun, live outside as well as in, and adopt a barefoot state of mind. The lessons these homes have to offer are much needed by all who are disenchanted with 'too bigness' in house design; and best of all, they're easy to implement, and often less expensive to boot. Anyone who is a fan of the Not So Big House series will almost certainly enjoy this book as well.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - The Not So Big House with a stylish twist
If you're familiar with Susan Susanka's Not So Big House series, you'll feel right at home here. Author Mark Vassallo co-wrote Inside the Not So Big House and like ... Read More
Rating:  - Not really barefoot per se
Couple quick notes:
Most homes featured are new, few are retrofitted. Most done by architects in a modern style.
For a barefoot home, it seems unusual ... Read More
Rating: - Surprised and delighted
We live in temperate Australia and hesitated long before buying this book. We have shelves of excellent architecture reference books from around the world and have been owner ... Read More
Rating: - Barefoot -- informal style, for an informal life.
On first glance I agreed with many of the other reviewers: 'the book was slick', 'it was disingenuous', 'sure, if you live in a sunny climate, most, if not all, of the time'. ... Read More
Rating: - Great Book!
This book is great for conversation and ideas. I leave mine on the coffee table for periodic inspiration...that of myself..and of others!
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Brand: Lifetime Products
Color: Almond
EAN: 0081483228716
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Model: 22871
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