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The Perfect $100,000 House: A Trip Across America and Back in Pursuit of a Place to Call Home Hardcover - 2006
by Karrie Jacobs; Gary Panter (Illustrator)
An architecture and design critic's search for an ideal American home that's both beautiful and affordable
Most would be hard pressed to find an American not interested in real estate. From birth, we're conditioned to consider owning our own homes as the fulfillment of the American Dream. But consumers today are more likely than not to find themselves either priced out of the market or forced to settle for cookie-cutter conformity. Where housing is concerned, cheap and well crafted rarely exist together. Or do they?
Founding Editor in Chief of Dwell magazine and noted critic Karrie Jacobs believes that they do. The Perfect $100,000 House chronicles her coast-to-coast search for just that: a well-built, intelligently designed, reasonably priced, decent-size house with at least a little curb appeal. Throughout her journey, Jacobs meets architects and builders who are revolutionizing the way Americans think about homes, about construction techniques, and about community. From a Teletubbiesesque subdivision outside Taos, New Mexico, to nuevo-retro shotgun houses in Houston, the options available to prospective home buyers are as diverse as the terrain along Jacobs's fourteen-thousand-mile trek. And no matter where her search ends, she'll at long last be home.
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For anyone who obsessively scours the real estate section and dreams of purchasing or building a house, The Perfect $100,000 House is a beacon of hope. Founding editor in chief of Dwell magazine and noted architecture and design critic Karrie Jacobs decided to see for herself whether it was still possible in America's overheated real estate market to build a home of one's own for a reasonable sum. Her quest took her across the country, where she encountered creative solutions to the housing dilemma, as well as visionary architects and builders revolutionizing how Americans think about homes, construction, and community.
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On the first of February 2003, the day the shuttle Columbia falls from the sky, I am in Houston, which likes to think of itself as "Space City."
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- Title The Perfect $100,000 House: A Trip Across America and Back in Pursuit of a Place to Call Home
- Author Karrie Jacobs; Gary Panter (Illustrator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 291
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Viking Books, New York
- Date August 17, 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780670037612 / 0670037613
- Weight 1.38 lbs (0.63 kg)
- Dimensions 9.28 x 7.76 x 1.05 in (23.57 x 19.71 x 2.67 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006044741
- Dewey Decimal Code 728.370
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