Blueprint Small: Creative Ways to Live with Less

Small can be beautiful--and the proof is in the spectrum of thoughtfully designed, scaled-back spaces featured in these pages. From a sleek city apartment to a funky mountain home, the structures in Blueprint Small are inspiring and workable examples of functionality, artistry, and innovative techniques for enhancing even the most minimal floor plans.

Blueprint Small is an easy-to-navigate blueprint for architecturally distinct small spaces that appear far more spacious than their square footage would indicate. With spectacular color photographs, accompanied by stories about the buildings and the people behind their creation, Blueprint Small is a how-to book that points the way toward a fresh way of living and offers practical, real-life solutions for anyone interested in building or renovating a small home, office, or retreat space, whether it is 240 or 2,400 square feet.

Small can be beautiful--and the proof is in the spectrum of thoughtfully designed, scaled-back spaces featured in these pages. From a sleek city apartment to a funky mountain home, the structures in Blueprint Small are inspiring and workable examples of functionality, artistry, and innovative techniques for enhancing even the most minimal floor plans.

Blueprint Small is an easy-to-navigate blueprint for architecturally distinct small spaces that appear far more spacious than their square footage would indicate. With spectacular color photographs, accompanied by stories about the buildings and the people behind their creation, Blueprint Small is a how-to book that points the way toward a fresh way of living and offers practical, real-life solutions for anyone interested in building or renovating a small home, office, or retreat space, whether it is 240 or 2,400 square feet.

Better Homes & Gardens

Blueprint Small ... is a small book that asks a big question: If American families are getting smaller, why are we building bigger homes? Author Michelle Kodis traveled the country to find homes of 1,500 square feet or less that prove scaling back in size doesn't mean scaling back in comfort or beauty. The featured homes cover a range of styles and budgets, including a home in Aspen you have to see to believe. The book also provides easy-to-read blueprints of the homes.

Michelle Kodis is also the author of the Gibbs Smith title Blueprint Small: Creative Ways to Live With Less. Since receiving her master of science degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1991, she has written about a broad range of topics, including architecture and design, science, the environment, health and medicine, business, and cuisine. She lives with her husband near Telluride, Colorado, and is currently at work on additional architecture/design books for Gibbs Smith Publisher.