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The Owner-Built Log House: Living in Harmony With Your Environment
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by B. Allan Mackie
Sales Rank: 132691
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List Price: $24.95
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Paperback: 232 pages
Publisher: Firefly Books September 1, 2001
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1552975487
ISBN-13: 978-1552975480
Product Dimensions:
10.1 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
From Library Journal
Most library users are interested in homes using traditional construction methods, but comprehensive collections should offer information about alternative technologies. These three titles offer good options. Pearson offers instructions to build yurts, tipis, and benders all dwellings that consist of a collapsible, lightweight frame covered with cloth. Examples range from simple, temporary designs to much sturdier structures appropriate for year-round use. The examples are from all over the world, but brief instructions allow anyone to build a rather exotic structure inexpensively. The Sanchezes provide a wealth of information about the history and techniques associated with the use of adobe, an ancient material common in the Southwest. Twelve plans for both traditional and modern homes are included some of which look surprisingly conventional to the casual observer. This title will be of particular interest to readers in the more arid regions of North America. Mackie, a well-known author and educator of log home-building techniques, shows how to construct a log home in a low-impact, environmentally friendly manner. The homes shown are beautiful, with a great deal of exposed joinery; Mackie's step-by-step instructions and excellent illustrations show how everything is done (the author, who is in his mid-seventies, is still building homes a feat that many half his age would find taxing). These titles are recommended for comprehensive collections or for those with a regional interest in the particular technology covered.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Review
Mackie is recognized around the world as one of the foremost log home builders this is your textbook. -- Log Home Design Ideas, January 2002
One of a '10 Essential Books for Every Log Home Owner' in their 10th Anniversary Issue. -- Log Home Design Ideas
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