The photographs are gorgeous and I loved how every remodel included a before and after photo and a before and after drawing of the floor plan. I wouldn't quit talking about the book with Hunter (my boyfriend) and I keep telling him that he needs to read it too (which SO will not happen, but I like to bug him anyway. Consequently, I read every page, studied every drawing, and looked closely at every photograph. It could not have been more perfect timing.

I don't need to read a how-to book from cover to cover and study every page because I'm normally just reading them for general knowledge.īut this book happened to come in right in the middle of me buying a house and planning a large remodel of it before we even move into it. I'll start to read it, browse through some pages, stop to read a couple pages in the middle, flip through the pages at the end to see if there's anything that catches my eye, and then call it good. Usually when I'm reading a nonfiction book on how to do something, I am not captivated by it. I discretely put it on hold for myself after he left (something I do more often than not - how do you think I find all of the great books to read?!) When it came in, I was excited to sit down and read it.

Then several months ago, I was checking items out to a patron at the library when I saw this book in the stack. However, the idea of a Not So Big House has stuck with me all this time, and I have mentioned it to more than a few people. I read Susanka's original book, The Not So Big House, a long time ago and really enjoyed it, but haven't read anything else she's written.

Not so big house book