Earth Render by Alanna Moore
$49.00 AUD
Category: Practical
Rendering or plastering is a craft as old as house building, the basic methods and concepts having changed little over time. This book offers a detailed look at the use of raw earth for painting and rendering walls in new as well as in existing buildings, focusing on sand-clay render, straw-clay render ...Show more
Clay and Lime Renders, Plasters and Paints - A How-To Guide to Using Natural Finishes by Katy Bryce; Adam Weismann
$56.00 AUD
Category: Practical | Series: Sustainable Building Ser.
This book was previously published under the title Using Natural Finishes. With step-by-step instructions for applying lime- and clay-based plasters, renders, and paints, this manual features information on the benefits of natural finishes for personal health, the environment, and buildings. Drawing on ...Show more
Stone by Design by SHAE ALISON
$44.99 AUD
Category: Practical
More than 125 gorgeous photographs showcase the beauty of award-winning stonemason Lew French's work in eight different homes, illustrating how rounded fieldstone, gray slate, rough granite, and even curvy driftwood can be incorporated into stunning pieces of functional art. French provides charming nar ...Show more
The Hinterland: Cabins, Love Shacks and Other Hide-Outs by Gestalten
$95.00 AUD
Category: Practical
The cabin has become our third place, our hideaway where we can recharge our spirits and reconnect with ourselves, away from the restraints of society and the stress of the everyday. This book presents the best new cabin architecture and design. We all need to be somewhere else, just for a little while. ...Show more
Straw Bale Construction Manual - Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture by Gernot Minke; Benjamin Krick
$105.00 AUD
Category: Practical
Building with straw bales is a technique pioneered a century ago in the state of Nebraska. In recent years there has been a renaissance in the use of straw as a building material largely in the American Southwest, but also in Canada, Australia, France, Holland, Germany, Austria and China. Straw is a ren ...Show more
Shelter by Lloyd Kahn
$50.00 AUD
Category: Practical
With over 1000 photographs, Shelter is a classic celebrating the imagination, resourcefulness, and exuberance of human habitat. First published in 1973, it is not only a record of the countercultural builders of the '60s, but also of buildings all over the world. There is a history of shelter and the ev ...Show more
Shelters, Shacks and Shanties by D C Beard
$23.00 AUD
Category: Practical
This classic hands-on guide by one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America contains a wealth of practical instruction and advice on how to build everything from a bark teepee and a tree-top house to a sod house and a log cabin. Over 300 illustrations and clear, easy-to-follow text makes this an inv ...Show more
Romeyn B. Hough. The Woodbook. The Complete Plates by Klaus Ulrich Leistikow
$79.95 AUD
Category: Practical
Culled and assembled by Romeyn Beck Hough between 1888 and 1913 in what still remains a stunning and unparalleled achievement, American Woods--originally published in 14 volumes, with actual specimens mounted on card stock--is a work of breathtaking beauty that has set the standard for the study of tree ...Show more
Builders of the Pacific Coast by Lloyd Kahn
$49.95 AUD
Category: Practical | Series: The\Shelter Library of Building Bks.
A continuation of Lloyd Kahn's journeys into the creative processes of owner-built homes -- their innovative techniques, use of sustainable materials, and essential dedication to the natural elements surrounding their designs --Builders of the Pacific Coast explores the aesthetics and skills of three ma ...Show more
Tiny Homes - Simple Shelter by Lloyd Kahn
$42.99 AUD
Category: Practical | Series: The\Shelter Library of Building Bks.
These days, homeowners, designers, architects (no less), road gypsies, water dwellers, dreamers, people of all ages, all over the world are making do creatively with under-500 sq. ft. shelters. This is a real and powerful alternative to high rents, or a lifelong obligation to a bank on an overpriced hom ...Show more
Home Work - Handbuilt shelter by Lloyd Kahn
$49.95 AUD
Category: Practical | Series: Shelter Ser.
Building on the enormous success of his book "Shelter, Lloyd Kahn continues his odyssey of finding and exploring the most magnificent and unusual hand-built houses in existence. Among the intriguing domiciles described in "Homework are a Japanese-styles stilt house accessible only by taking a cable acro ...Show more
Shelter II by Lloyd Kahn
$31.95 AUD
Category: Practical
"Shelter II" is the second in a series of books about people building their own homes in different parts of the world. The principles outlined in "Shelter, " published almost 40 years ago, seem even more important today: relearning the still-usable skills of the past and doing more hand work in providin ...Show more