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title: "The Very Small Home: Japanese Ideas for Living Well in Limited Space"
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# The Very Small Home: Japanese Ideas for Living Well in Limited Space

**Brand:** brown
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- **What is this?** The Very Small Home: Japanese Ideas for Living Well in Limited Space by brown
- **How much does it cost?** € 59.10 with free shipping
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The Very Small Home: Japanese Ideas for Living Well in Limited Space

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## Customer Reviews

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    Origami you can live in, or at least marvel at...
  

*by C***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 28, 2008*

I LOVE this book!  I don't think I could live in most of these houses...  But, oh wow, would I love to spend a weekend.In the truest Japanese tradition, these very, very small homes are morsels of perfection.  No detail is too small; no corner neglected.Somehow, ancient Japanese design seems modern.  So these "modern" homes, in the Japanese context, carry on tradition.My favorite house may be the little gem squeezed into what was a long, narrow driveway.  It manages to be private, spacious, light filled and warm, AND incorporate a charming courtyard between the kitchen and traditional bathhouse.There are so many ingenious ideas packed between the covers of this book.  If you love architecture or small houses or big houses or live in a house or apartment or refrigerator box (especially the box--it's roughly the size of some of these houses) you may enjoy this book.My main objection to these designs, is that I would require more privacy for the master bedroom.  Many of them were open loft types, many of them barely segmented from the children's space.  But, I still marveled at these tiny wonders.  Some had the aura of cathedrals.Highly recommended.

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    Awkward Lot Building
  

*by N***N on Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2018*

A good book, but not as good as his previous book "Small Spaces", which I have just rebought.This book covers beautiful houses on complex small lots, it is not really for me, it is praised by Sarah Susanka who has published work on her exquisite mini mansions, this book is in the same vein.It makes a nice coffee table book, it is perfectly illustrated.

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    Fun book, well put together
  

*by C***E on Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2009*

This is a fun book that can be perused many times without getting tired of it. It is well put together. It features twenty small Japanese houses (including two in the introduction) in the Tokyo area, all of contemporary architecture. There isn't much available land in Tokyo so the architects had to use their imaginations to put everything in a small space. Four pages are devoted to each house, two for photos, one for large 3-D floor plan drawings, and one for the text and a cross section drawing of the different levels or stories.The rooms appear spacious because they are sparsely furnished, as the Japanese value simplicity. Living areas often have only a dining table and chairs and sometimes a couch or a bookcase, and the bedrooms only have space enough for a bed, storage, and sometimes a desk. The kitchens save space with compact appliances that until recently were not made in the USA. And the toilets are usually put in tiny cubicles separate from the bathing area, which has a tub and/or a shower with a curtain but no stall. The tiniest house has a footprint of less than 18' square and only 533 square feet of floor space, including the loft, and a family with two children live there.To bring nature to an urban setting where there isn't a tree in sight, several houses are built around a garden courtyard that also illumines the interior rooms that would otherwise be dark. One house has a separate bathing house with grass growing on its roof and views of a private garden. Another house  has all its rooms in a row with sliding glass doors that can be pulled back so every room is open to the small yard, including the bathroom that has no door!

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*Last updated: 2026-01-24*