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OUR
HYPERGRAPHIC TOOL KIT
SketchUp:
basic 3D modeler that can do just about anything
Scribus:
one of the best desktop publishing programs, and its free
Xn
View: image editor that sorts, edits and converts graphic
images
OpenOffice:
open source for a suite of word, presentation, spreadsheet, paint
and draw programs
Coffee
Cup: HTML editor for making quick project web pages
OpenProj:
simple and powerful scheduling software and project manager
AVG:
free version of this software is essential for web/email security
PDF
Fill, PDF writer with a collection of tools to work with PDF
files
WINK:
captures screenshots, video and voice for tutorials and shorties
Simple
Graphic Programs
FreeByte:
source for hundreds of free, opensource programs
UltimatePaint:
one of the best paint programs at any price
Skencil:
vector graphic program for the Macintosh (or Linux)
i.MAGE:
free and simple paint program good for editing images
Draw:
vector graphic program for the PC, see also Open Office above
Simple
3D Modeling Programs
POVray:
popular rendering program for 3D architectural models
3DBase:
very simple, limited intorduction to 3D modeling
Anim8or:
complicated, but produces outstanding realistic models
3DVia:
free 3D shape shape modeler, simple to use
MorisDov:
Adds animation and movement to a 3D construction model
Simple 2D Drafting Programs
CADStd:
simple 2D CAD program for just about any project
JustCAD:
simple 2D CAD origram with just about everything one needs
CADvance:
2D drafting program, old version of latest software
Desi
III: one of the best free CAD programs, good for any project
size
Graphic
Communication Books
Understanding
Comics. Scott McCloud
Comics
and Sequential Art. Will Eisner
Envisioning
Information. Edward Tufte
Sustainable
Resources
Solar
Calculator: Weather Underground
eBackroad:
directory of resources
Environmental
Building Products: Resource forum
Passive
House Design: Overview of passive housing
Passive-On:
Planning a passive house
Real
Goods: Solar and renewable resources
Sustainability
Store: Help to create a more sustainable future.
Alternative Living Resources
Tai
Chi: Gentle movements of tai chi reduce stress and offer other
health benefits
Feng
Shui: Shambhala publication on the fundamentals of Feng Shui
Vastu
Shastra: Ancient form of environmental design, siting, and
understanding spacial relationships
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Small
House Plans, People and Ideas
Antique
Homes (Classic houses plans)
Architectural
House Plans (Custom plans)
Bottleman's
tiny house struggle
Bright
Built Barn: ideas and design
Concrete
Treehouse: Concrete Mag
CountryPlans.com
(Small house plans)
Cusato
Cottages (House plans)
DorNob: Design
ideas daily
DesignBoom:
(Blue Forest: Eco-perch)
eSmallHousePlans.com
(Small house plans)
Family
Home Plans (small house plans)
FabPreFab
(Prefabricated housing)
Future
House - Japan
Glen-L
- RV Plans you can build
Great
House Trucks
Gregory
Kloehn: Homeless houses
How
Tiny Houses Work: defines tiny
Humble Homes:
House plans, articles
Little Digs
(Great collection of ideas)
Living
Box (Small house ideas)
Living
Small (Article)
M.Barkley
MicroHome (house on wheels)
Micro
House Manual (N55 Innovations)
Mini-Cabin
Plans (How-to Information)
Moser
Design Group (House plans)
Oasis
Design: Deep Ecology
Open
Source Plans (Not so open)
Pallet
Houses (Pallet construction)
Pinterest-Tiny
Houses
Pre-Fab Homes
(Directory of prefabs)
Phrannie.org
(RV info)
Relax
Shack: Tiny architecture and small living solutions
Rick
Thompson Cottages (House plans)
Sheldon
Designs (Catalog of simple plans)
Shelter
Institute (Hennin post and beam)
Shed Forum
(Lifestyle for shed workers)
Sidekick
Homes: Small house plans
Skylight
Studios (Directory)
Slow
Express Journey - Caravaning
Small
Cabin Home - Do it Yourself Guide
Small
Cottage Plans
Small
Footprint Living - Ideas
Small
House Building - Guide and resources
Small
House Bliss
Smallest
House in America - Photoblog
Suburban
TiPi - Experimental
This
Tiny House blog and ideas
Tea-House
(Sanctuary)
The Mad Houser
(Affordable housing)
Tiny
Cabin in the Woods: personal account
Tiny Free
House (Blog)
Tiny
House Design (Live Light and Small)
TinyHouse.Net
(Ideas)
Tiny
House Forum (Share ideas)
Tiny
House Hunter (Ideas)
Tiny House
Swoon (Galleries)
Tiny
Woodland Home (Organic)
Walking
House (N55 Innovations)
Wagon
Teamster (Slowly to ???)
Wagons
Online (Gypsy caravans)
Wired
Magazine Article (Tiny Houses)
Zoey's
Tiny House (Blog)
Small House Companies
and Suppliers
Abtech:
Forkliftable small buildings
Ace
Sectional Buildings: Prefab sheds, buildings, and houses
All
Around the House (Small appliances)
Air &
Water Inc: (Small appliances)
Backyard
City: Sheds
Bear
Creek Company (Cabins)
Bear
Creek Carpentry (Adirondacks)
Beaver
Log Cabins (UK small houses)
Bungalow
in a Box (Panel construction)
Cabana
Villages
Cabin
Fever
Canyon
Classic Canyons (Design Build)
CareFree
Houses
CAVCO
Cabins (Park homes)
Chariot
Homes (HUD Code RV Homes)
Compact
Appliances (Small appliances)
EcoSphere
First
Day Cottages
Free
Spirit Sphere
Garage
Quotes: Prefab conc bldgs, UK
Garden
Sheds and Summer Leisure Buildings
Global
Portable Building
Green
Shelter: Live well not large
Habitaflex (Transportable homes)
Hansens
(Barn, garage, storage kits)
Hybrid
Seattle (Shipping containers)
Instant
Mobile Houses (Park homes)
Insteading:
Self-sufficient and sustainble suppliers
Just
Cabins (Portable shelters)
Kithaus
(Modular houses)
Landcaster
County Barns
Little
House
Little
Green Buildings: SIP Construction
Mandala
Round Homes
Metro
Shed
Micro
Compact Houses
MinCabins
Modular
House
Modern
Cabana
Modern
Shed (Shed Houses)
M-house
Out
of the Box
Porta
Huts
Roccio
Romero
Shelter-Kit
(Owner build kits)
Small
Works - Studios and Housing
Summerwood
Sheds
Sweetwater
Bungalows
Tiger
Sheds All kinds of sheds and tiny houses
TimberLast
Small Houses (Post and beam)
Tiny House
Listings: Tiny homes for sale
Tiny
Texas Houses (Recycled materials)
Tony's Tea
House (Simple and Zen)
Toyotomi
(Small Appliances)
Trendir:
Sustainable home building
Tumbleweed
Tiny House Company
VanWyck
Wood Builders
Wallpole
Company (Small Buildings)
WeeHouses
Zen
Cabins
Sustainable Organizations
Architecture
for Humanity
Building
Green Magazine
Change.Org:
Tiny houses end homelessness
EcoBusiness
Links
Garden
Building Directory
House
that Could - Article on ADUs
Natural
Home Magazine
Permaculture
Research Institute
Small
House Society (Join!)
Small
House Discussion Group (Join in!)
Strawbale
Building Association
Tree
Hugger
US Green Building Council (LEEDs)
WorldChanging.com
Small, Simple and
Sustainable Developments
Belize
Open Source
Cottage
Company
Container
City
The
Cottage Company: Danielson Grove
Earthships
Gail
and Snowden
Greenhome
Building
Green
Homes For Sale
IKEA
Housing development (small house article)
Lucias
Little House
Rick
Thompson
Ross Chapin
Small
Green Homes For Sale
Small
World, Big Ideas: NYTimes
Spring
Valley Cottages
Tata
Housing (small house development)
Tofte Project
(Idea)
Yurts
of Costa Rica (Eco friendly)
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BOOKS
Sustainable
Architecture
Eco-Renovation:
The Ecological Home Improvement Guide. Edward Harland
Good
Green Homes: Creating Better Homes for a Healthier Planet.
Jennifer Roberts
Green
by Design: Creating a Home for Sustainable Living. Angela
M. Dean
Natural
Home Heating: The Complete Guide to Renewable Energy Options.
Greg Pahl
Passive
Solar Energy: The Homeowner's Guide to Natural Heating and
Cooling. Bruce Anderson
Real
Goods Solar Living Source Book: The Complete Guide to Renewable
Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living, 11th Ed). John Schaeffer
Sustainable
Architecture: Low Tech Houses. Arian Mostaedi
The
Ecology of Architecture: A Complete Guide to Creating the
Environmentally Conscious Building by Laura C. Zeiher
Healthy House Construction
Fast
Feng Shui: 9 Simple Principles for Transforming Your Life
by Energizing Your Home. Stephanie Roberts
The
Healthy House : How to buy one, How to build one, How to cure
a sick one, 4th revised ed. John Bower
Healthy
House Building for the New Millennium. John Bower
Healthy
House Catalog: National Directory of Indoor Pollution Resources
by Stuart Greenberg, Robert Staib
Japanese
Gardening in Small Spaces. Isao Yoshikawa
Prescriptions
for a Healthy House. Paula Baker-Laporte, Erica Elliott, John
Banta, Lisa Flynn
Books on Small Houses
500
Small Houses of the Twenties Henry Atterbury Smith The
Backyard Builder: Over 150 Build-It-Yourself Projects for
Your Garden, Home, and Yard. John Warde
Big
Book of Small House Design Don Metz, et al
Blokes
& Sheds. Jim Hopkins. (A favorite)
Building
Small Barns, Sheds and Shelters. Monte Burch
Building
a Shed: Expert Advice from Start to Finish. Joseph Truini
The
Cabin: Inspiration for the Classic American Getaway. Dale
Mulfinger, Susan E. Davis
Cabins:
A Guide to Building Your Own Nature Retreat. David R. Stiles,
Jeanie Stiles, Don Metz
Cabin
Fever: Sheds and Shelters, Huts and Hideaways. Marie-France
Boyer
Creating
the Not So Big House: Insights and Ideas for the New American
Home. Sarah Susanka, Grey Crawford
Creative
Plans for Yard and Garden Structures: 42 Easy-To-Build Designs
for Gazebos, Sheds, Pool Houses, Playsets, Bridges and More! Connie
Brown
For
Your Garden: Garden Sheds and Potting Areas (For Your Garden
Series). Penelope O'Sullivan
Freewheeling
Homes David Pearson (London; Chelsea Green Press, 2002).
Ideas
for Great Backyard Cottages. Cynthia Overbeck Bix
Haiku
Cottage
Karl Ashley Smith
Havens
and Hideaways: Cozy Cabins and Rustic Retreats. Jo Denbury,
Chris Tubbs (Photographer), Ali Watkinson
Havens
and Hideaways. Ryland Peters & Small, Mandy Pritty, Chris
Long
Housing
Ourselves: Creating Affordable, Sustainable Shelter
How
to Design & Build Sheds. Paul Ehrlich
Huts,
Havens and Hideaways. Jo Denbury and Chris Tubbs
A
Hut of One's Own: Life Outside the Circle of Architecture.
Ann Cline
A
Little House of My Own: 47 Grand Designs for 47Tiny Houses.
Les Walker
Little
House on a Small Planet
Simple Homes, Cozy Retreats and Energy Efficient Alternatives.
Saloman.
Little
Retreats. Jane Tidbury and Peter Aprahamian
Living
Large in Small Spaces. Marisa Bartolucci
Men
and Sheds. Gordon Thorburn
Mini
House, Alejandro Bahamon, Harper Design International
Mini
Houses Now. Agata Losantos, Collin Design
More
Small Houses: Fine Homebuilding Great Houses. Fine Homebuilding
Magazine (Editor), Taunton Press
New
Cottage Homes. Jim Tolpin. Tauton Press.
New
Small Homes. Aurora Cuito
Sheds:
Do it Yourself Backyard Builders David Stiles
Shelter,
Sheds, and Shanties,
D.C. Beard
The
Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live.
Sarah Susanka, Kira Obolensky
The
Not So Big House Collection: The Not So Big
Not
So Big Solutions for Your Home. Sarah Susanka
Outdoor
Shelter Plans: Overheads, Sheds and Gazebos. Roger S. Grizzle
Palliser's
New Cottage Homes. Palliser & Co.
A
Place of Your Own Making: How to Build a One-Room Cabin, Studio,
Shack, or Shed
Stephen Taylor
Rodale's
Step-By-Step Guide to Outdoor Furniture for the Backyard Builder:
Easy-To-Build Projects for the Yard and Deck. Bill Hylton
Rustic
Retreats: A Build-It-Yourself Guide
by David R. Stiles, Jeanie Trusty Stiles
Sheds:
The Do-It-Yourself Guide for Backyard Builders. David R. Stiles
Sheds
& Garages. Sunset Books
Small
City Houses. Evergreen Books
Small
House Designs
Kenneth Tremblay Small
Houses, Great Houses. Fine Homebuilding
Small
Houses, Nicolas Pople, Universe Publishing
Small
Log Homes-Storybook plans and Sage advice. Robbin Obomsawin
Small
Houses of the Twenties. The Sears, Roebuck 1926 House Catalog
(Dover Pictorial Archives) [UNABRIDGED]
Start
to Finish Sheds & Gazebos. Martin Miller
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