Books
1) Salomon, S., & Valdez, N. (2006). Little house on a small planet : simple homes, cozy retreats, and energy efficient possibilities. Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press.
This book is a guidebook to 'little houses'. It contins floor plans and photographs of small houses. It has suggestions, advice and anecdotes related to small home living. has photographs and tips on how to build a small home. It provides case studies of individuals in America living in small homes which include initial costs and the monthly energy costs of their homes. It also offers philosophic studies in zen and small home living.
2) Small houses. (1997). Fine Homebuilding great houses. Newtown, Conn.: Taunton Press.
This book is comprised of thirty seven articles about small homes selected from and originally printed in the magazine Fine Homebuilding. It has construction information of example small homes and design ideas for small homes. The aim of the book is to show the potential beauty of small homes to an otherwise unfamiliar audience.
3) Walker, L. (2000). A little house of my own : 47 grand designs for 47 tiny houses. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal : Distributed by Workman.
Lester Walker's book contains floor plans and color photographs (both interior and exterior) of forty-seven tiny houses, each under 325 square feet. Included area few notable homes from history, such as Shaw's Writing Hut and Thoreau's Cabin. Each home includes information about the area where the home is located, histories of the home themselves and the people who shaped those histories.
4) Zeiger, M. (2009). Tiny houses. New York; New York: Rizzoli ; Distributed to the US trade by Random House.
Mimi Zeiger's book is small (7 inches square) just like the houses she talks about. Her focus is homes under 1,000 square feet and on how small house living is more sustainable. This book includes a guide to over 30 internationally available pre-fabricated homes.
My pathfinder is for the public library audience and there for the cataloging numbers reviewed are Dewey numbers. The central component to the small house movement are the houses themselves. Houses tend to be classified simply within the DCC, therefore the most advantageous place to look for books about small housing in a library using Dewey is in 728.37. This number corresponds to the Dewey subject heading of as described in the following information was gotten from the OCLC Dewey service connexion:
“700 Arts & recreation
720 Architecture
721-729 Specific aspects of architecture
725-728 Specific types of structures
728 *Residential and related buildings
728.3 Specific kinds of conventional housing
728.37 *Separate houses”
It may also be beneficial for the patron to browse in sections 643.29. Here is the corresponding information again retrieved from the OCLC Dewey service connexion:
“600 Technology
640 Home & family management
643 Housing and household equipment
643.2 Special kinds of housing
643.29 Mobile homes”