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Show out at 2.200. BOOKS Continued ftum Tamps and Cottages 15 practical. It explains how to arran rooms, raise and lower ceilings, frame interior views, layer spaces and create Intimate nooks, nich es and alcoves that reflect the way you really, honestly, truly live. And you can do it without wasting a square foot or feeling cramped or confined. While the first book fea- tured photographs and floor plans of homes designed mostly by Susanka's former architectural firm, the sec ond includes 25 homes from all over the United Slates that exemplify her less-tha- n large approach. Styles vary fYom a Southwestern adobe to a Minnesota farmhouse, cottages in Washington state to an apartment in New York and a tract house in suburban Chicago. Fbr both inspiration and solid Information, you'll want to keep both books on the coffee table where you can refer to them. But if you want to browse before you buy, visit Susankas Web site, www.notsobighouRe.com. The site, which evert provides links to architect and floor plans you can purchase, is'getling 4,000 nits a day, Other volumes that like-minde- d address the approach to buying, building or remodeling, and which are now available in bookstores, include the following! think-small- "Small Log Homes: Storybook Flans and Advice published earlier this year, "The goal," writes author Robbin Obomsawin, "is to build a home that makes you feel as if you are always on vacation." Nothing eonvevs that get away-from-it-a- ll attitude more than the log cabin, This nifty little tome explains the difference between milled or manufac tured log homes and those that are nandcrafled. It pro vides floor plans that start at 480 square feet and max by Molly Hyde English. Adirondack chairs, painted wicker porch furniture, n walls, mattress-tickin- g pillows, ljfeAfeldlAMIklib1iWi' board-and-batte- gingham curtains, antler lamps, canoe paddles, coffee tables, wagon-wheblankets Pendleton vintage you get the idea, As a youngster in 1959, English took a road trip from California to Colorado with her family and got caught in a time warp from which she has refused to emerge. She also advocates a "gone " approach to decorating, living at home surrounded by the icons of summer camps and lakeside cottages from the s20s, DOs and '40b. The book has little to say about architecture or planning the siae and Bhape of a house, but Linda Svendsens photographs amply illustrate why there's so much nostalgia for the rustic charm of humble vacation destinations of the past and how to replicate the " I M.I) I.. .J, If-- r - niAVK . fish-itvg- e effect in your home. The New Cottage Home" by Jim Tolpin. First published three years ago, the book is now available in a soflcover edition. Tolpin e eeroed in on the movement and houses early on cottage-Bi- e and does a tour of 30 recently built examples sprinkled across the country. "It seems we are finally ready to consider unpretenhouses tious, modest-siz- e that offer simplicity of form and construction," Tolpin wrote. "Small House, Dig Style" From the Better Homes and Gardens empire, "small" in this cbbb means Icbb than 2,600 square feet. According to the book, more than 50 million Americans live in homes thaLare in Provo 1135 N. Lakeshore Offered from 1 1 refreshingly contemporary show that living lavishly doesn't require a ludicrous amount of space. 40's to 1 BO's Drendon 599-789- Roger 372-599- 9 KIUMIAM AND cottage-cabin-lodg- photographs of 21 homes including some that are ) Decorated Model Open Dally full-tim- that range. Twluftjdred Drive (3050 W ft litMwi jcH ' H I 7 Kll NUS KKAL 1SIAII-- . I 1 II it;4H h .skNr7v A I n (0 tllOVI f From the J ' t .r' p "miUiMtm Tlx best pricing Excellent locations i' ... Outstanding Quality Custom Clmices SMMsit mm.. m m Your First Team in Real Estate 7 i7i MODEL HOMES 17i WV W 20IM 1850 S 46SS676 CD DILL DROWN REALTY, INC. 489-52- 93 7 www.ehgutah.eom AVAIIAttIF TMHOIlrlH FNSION Fl f!!TTF |