 | Meditations on Design: Reinventing Your Home With Style and Simplicity by John Wheatman
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $0.75 Simply the best. Includes philosophical and practical aspects of home design and focuses on designing a living space based on the inhabitants rather than an arbitrary style.
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 | A Good House Is Never Done by John Wheatman
Buy new: $27.95 / Used from: $5.00 Another great book.
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 | The Organized Home: Design Solutions for Clutter-Free Living by Randall Koll
Buy used from: $0.01 Room-by-room guide packed with great ideas.
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 | The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live by Sarah Susanka
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $4.20 Noble concept and well-thought out, but I'm not as crazy about the architectural and interior design. Still, an essential book.
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 | Budget Living Home Cheap Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to Great Decorating by Editors of Budget Living
Buy used from: $2.24 Eclectic range of imaginative ideas. Some great, some not so.
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 | Outside the Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of Home by Julie Moir Messervy
Buy new: $23.07 / Used from: $10.97 I appreciate Messervy's design sense. The pairing of the two authors seemed a bit forced, seemed to detract from the message, but still recommended.
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 | Private Landscapes: Modernist Gardens in Southern California by Pamela Burton
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $19.87 Comprehensive coffee-table book with a surprising amount of background on modernist architecture and garden design. Great to see examples of how well structures and gardens have aged over time.
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 | Bruce and Sharon Asakawa's California Gardener's Guide by Bruce Asakawa
Buy new: $18.24 / Used from: $0.01 A good resource for California gardeners. Very much a listing of the personal likes/dislikes of the author, and not comprehensive.
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 | Pat Welsh's Southern California Gardening: A Month-by-Month Guide by Pat Welsh
Buy used from: $29.88 Comprehensive resource for SoCal-specific gardeners. Tells you what you need to do on a month-to-month basis.
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 | Patios and Walkways (Do It Now Do It Fast Do It Right)
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.94 In general, the Taunton series produces the best how-to guides on home improvement. This one provides clear, detailed instruction and illustration of a variety of projects.
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