A Japanese Touch for Your Home

  • ISBN13: 9784770016621
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Filled with elegant designs and clever tips, A Japanese Touch for Your Home offers bold and exciting ideas for remodeling your home or redecorating your apartment. The author, architect Koji Yagi, explains the basic elements of Japanese interior design and shows you how to use them. Install tatami mats and shoji doors–cardinal elements of Japanese interior design–and see how beautifully they respond to the Western home. Change the size and shape of a room easily… More >>

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Sustainable Homes: 26 Designs that Respect the Earth

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Sustainable Homes puts to rest the stigma that “green architecture” is unattractive and unsuitable for residential architecture.For the houses shown in this volume represent design equal to or superior to most conventional houses. Each of these “eco” houses is unique. Some tread lightly on the site by nestling into the land. Others are designed to be extremely well suited to the climactic zones in which they are built. Many use materials that do no harm to the envir… More >>

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