If you have ever longed for a secret hideaway, a bit of space in your life, if you built dens as a child and loved to play in tents, if you dream of escaping in a campervan this book will delight you.
In George Clarke's Channel 4 series Amazing Spaces he met people building their own hideaways, either from scratch or reclaiming unwanted buses, caravans and shipping containers. He created his own project too. The series was very good and sometimes the book released to accompany a tv series can be a little lacking but that isn't the case with this one. Clarke combines tasty pictures of the projects with plans and information on how every inch of these tiny spaces is put to multiple uses, a table is a bed, and a bath, and storage.
The book is divided into 3 sections
The first is an introduction on starting to think about your own project. Why do you want this space, who is it for and how will it be used, where do you want it to be and will you build from scratch or use an existing space?
The second section is the projects featured in the series, broken down into movable spaces (caravans, buses, boats and trucks), multi-functional spaces (huts, tiny apartments, caravans and containers), new spaces (building from scratch) and recycled spaces (using existing resources)
The last section is on the practicalities of making your dream into reality, planning, using designers and/or architects, sketches, action plans, budgets, health and safety, the boring but vital stuff to make it all happen.
A nice size, illustrated in full colour throughout, delicious to look at and full of enough information to help a anyone take their dreams forward.
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