Ceramic Houses

Ceramic Houses
Author: Nader Khalili
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1986
Genre: House & Home
ISBN:

Khalili offers a step-by-step guide to the simple and natural process of using clay-earth to build adobe houses and firing the structures with potter's glazes to create ceramic houses. His techniques integrate graphics, sculpture, art, and architecture and can be used successfully by anyone who wants to build an inexpensive, durable, and energy-efficient house that fully expresses the individual's taste and imagination.

Ceramic Houses and Earth Architecture

Ceramic Houses and Earth Architecture
Author: Nader Khalili
Publisher: Cal Earth Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1996
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781889625010

Khalili's classic, authoritative manual describes how to build arches, domes, and vaults with earth, as well as techniques to fire and glaze earth buildings to transform them into ceramic houses. This newly revised edition also provides insight into the latest response by building officials to Superadobe or earthbag technology (structures of sandbags and barbed wire), a patented system that is free for the owner-builder and licensed for commercial use. Nader Khalili's ideas on ceramic houses and earth architecture have been published by NASA and utilized by the United Nations, and have passed building and safety tests in California. This new edition is now in its fifth printing.

Young House Love

Young House Love
Author: Sherry Petersik
Publisher: Artisan
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2015-07-14
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1579656765

This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.

Restoration House

Restoration House
Author: Kennesha Buycks
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 0310092183

You don't have to live in your dream house to make your living spaces feel more like home. Home is meant to be a place to belong. A place to gather and connect. A place of beauty. A place to restore your soul. In Restoration House, author and designer Kennesha Buycks will encourage you to embrace your home and your story so you can create mindful spaces that give life to you, your loved ones, and all who enter. Tips from Restoration House have been featured in Better Homes and Garden, Apartment Therapy, Design Sponge, and The Washington Post. Kennesha will teach you how to: Make the best out of your living space, whether you're renting or a homeowner Create a home your visitors will feel comfortable in Decorate your home on a budget Make purposeful design decisions that are beautiful and functional Restoration House is ideal for: Christian women of all ages who want to make their houses feel more like home Housewarming gifts, Mother's Day, birthdays, and holiday gifting

The Good House Book

The Good House Book
Author: Clarke Snell
Publisher: Lark Books
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2004
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781579902810

A guide to building an eco-friendly, energy-efficient, and sustainable house that is in harmony with the local climate and site.

Racing Alone

Racing Alone
Author: Nader Khalili
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1983
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Ceramics and Change in the Early Bronze Age of the Southern Levant

Ceramics and Change in the Early Bronze Age of the Southern Levant
Author: Graham Philip
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2000-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781841271354

This book sets out the primary issues and current debates in the use of ceramics to reconstruct and explain cultural economic and social processes in the Early Bronze age. By bringing together research on pottery from various parts of the southern Levant, it allows direct comparison of contemporary material from different regions. Alongside these empirical studies are discussions of general ceramic issues, so that the book highlights the potential of pottery as an investigative tool, and indicates fruitful directions for future research within the traditionally conservative field of Levantine archaeology.

The Hand-sculpted House

The Hand-sculpted House
Author: Ianto Evans
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2002
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1890132349

Cob, a structural composite of earth, water, straw, clay, and sand, has been used for centuries, in virtually all parts of the world, to create homes ranging from mud huts in Africa to lavish adobe haciendas in Latin America. This practical and inspiring hands-on guide teaches anyone to build a cob dwelling.