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"""House on a Budget"" is the first book to break down the unspoken barrier between beautiful homes and their budgets. You'll learn about actual costs, levels of architectural service, the home owners and the builders. You'll hear from those involved and how they found success, despite snags along the way. There are 18 homes featured here. Each was built in the past 8 years, its cost was competitive, general contractors were involved and for as many as possible, building, site development and design fee costs are shown where available."

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For anybody who wants to design and build a nice house -- that is, who wants to hire other people to design and build a nice house for them -- this is the single most useful guide I've ever seen. <br>-- Kurt Andersen <br> Dickinson's compassion for cost effective custom homes shines through his enlightened book...This is a must book for homeowners who seek more personality from their housing dollar. <br>--Dale Mulfinger, author of The Cabin, The Getaway Home and the forthcoming Cabinology <br> In House on a Budget, Dickinson practically insists that design be affordable for everyone. <br>--John Connell, Yestermorrow Design/Build School, author of Creating The Inspired House <br> Challenges the commonly held assumption that good house design and construction is always expensive. <br>--Jeremiah Eck, author of The Distinctive Home and The Face of Home

For anybody who wants to design and build a nice house -- that is, who wants to hire other people to design and build a nice house for them -- this is the single most useful guide I've ever seen. <br>-- Kurt Andersen<br> Dickinson's compassion for cost effective custom homes shines through his enlightened book...This is a must book for homeowners who seek more personality from their housing dollar. <br>--Dale Mulfinger, author of The Cabin, The Getaway Home and the forthcoming Cabinology<br> In House on a Budget, Dickinson practically insists that design be affordable for everyone. <br>--John Connell, Yestermorrow Design/Build School, author of Creating The Inspired House<br> Challenges the commonly held assumption that good house design and construction is always expensive. <br>--Jeremiah Eck, author of The Distinctive Home and The Face of Home

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"A self-styled maverick within the profession, Duo Dickinson, AIA, is an architect in Madison, Connecticut. He is the author of five books on residential design, including The Small House (McGraw-Hill, 1986) and Small Houses for the Next Century (McGraw-Hill, 1995). His design philosophy has been summarized in The New York Times as: ""Design it small, make it as beautiful as possible, and practice every trick in the book to keep it as cheap as possible."""

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