Hello to all, and may I say this is wonderful, so much information. I have built my own large home and now plan to build something much smaller to plan for my last years.
I teach high school math and my technical Math clases are going to totally design the house and everything about it.
I have lost a bookmark to a site for smal homes, I think it was a .org site. It had a lot of good links and was all about building the least house you needed but haing it work and feel bigger. I think I found it from this site or a google search of "small cabin plans' but have not been able to find it again.
Thanks for the help
Mark
Any of a bunch of sites that might be what you are thinking.
The home page here--click on "home" above.
Sarah Susanka's Not-So-Big-House site. At one stage I liked her site better than her books, but the nice "links" section has been replaced by a professionals directory. Her columns--first in Fine Homebuilding and now in the Taunton Press natural building magazine are often pretty interesting. But not always terribly useful for someone who might be UPSIZING by building a small home. I DO know people who love her books.
http://www.susanka.com/default.asp
Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language site--one of the MOST DISORGANIZED SITES I've ever encountered. Somewhere there there is still--I think--a plan for designing a small house for one--or two:
http://www.patternlanguage.com/
AHA! found it!:
http://www.patternlanguage.com/smallhouse/smallhouseframe.htm?/leveltwo/../smallhouse/smallhousetable.htm
Might take a look at this--it's not what I was looking for there:
http://www.patternlanguage.com/leveltwo/archivesframe.htm?/leveltwo/../archives/israel/israel.htm
Small House society?
http://www.resourcesforlife.com/groups/smallhousesociety/resources.htm
Cool Houseplans?
http://www.coolhouseplans.com/index.html
Should I put these links in the links section?
Thank you, it was small house society. I spent all day looking, thank you, let the project begin.
Mark