150 Best Eco House Ideas

Perfect for architects, designers, interiors decorators, and homeowners alike.. 150 BEST ECO HOUSE IDEAS The newest volume in the highly successful “150 Best” series—joining 150 Best House Ideas and 150 Best Apartment Ideas—150 Best Eco House Ideas is a comprehensive handbook showcasing the latest in sustainable architecture and environmentally-friendly home design

Yo Oliver said 150 Best Eco House Ideas. This book has beautiful photography. I find the information about eco principles is very brief and the snippets don't relate clearly to the photographs. I was expecting to get photographs with explanatory notes on how the eco ideas were utilised in the designs. There are plans included but they are so small I have difficulty reading them. Recommended for the photography, but this is not an instructional book on eco principles.. Picture book for adults I'll start off with the good aspects of this book.-cheap-easy read-interesting designsnow the negative- might as well just do a Google image search because its just pretty much just pictures.- Doesn't really help those who are looking to build.Its not a bad book but there is no more useful information in it then any green living website.. Clearly a lot of work went into this mediocre book I'm really sorry, but I have to say that while I understand the concept behind this book, it falls well short of the mark from my point of view. The photography is of acceptable quality, but really for the amount of detail shown in them, they're really too small. This may be the fault of the publisher, not the author, because the physical size is really to small to display the photographs properly. There is a real lack of detailed text about each house, and the illustrations also suffer the same fate as the photographs- they're too small, and I would have appreciated much more detail in them. Personally I would have preferred a "50" or "75

Included here are the latest innovations in sustainable home design, including solar paneling, wind energy systems, environmentally-friendly heating and cooling solutions, thermal glazing, and trombe walls.150 Best Eco House Ideas covering the diversity of current trends in sustainable home design, and is both the perfect resource for designers, interior decorators, and architects, as well an inspirational sourcebook for all homeowners interested in creating warm and inviting homes that cause only a fraction of the environmental impact of those created using conventional building methods.. From the Back CoverFeaturing an ext

Marta Serrats is a design editor for Loft Publications, and an expert in architecture and store displays. She is the author of such highly acclaimed titles as New Shops and Boutiques, Capturing Space, Point of Purchase, and Unique Packaging.