Recycled Spaces: Converting Buildings into Homes

by Vinny Lee, Roy Main, Ray Main (Photographer)

A beautifully illustrated handbook explains how to transform old building into vital, new homes, exploring a rnage of projeccts that have renovated former ecclesiastical, industrial, agricultural, municipal, and commercial sites into striking apartments and houses.

Genres: Nonfiction

144 pages, Hardcover

First published September 25, 2000

Reviews

[carolm · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would love to buy, restor and live in an old church or school building. I love to watch the tv shows about people who do such things.

I loved the pictures in this book. I'd rather have had more and bigger pictures in the book than so much text. I'm also not a real big fan of all the modernism/minimalism, I'm more of a funky, quirky, offbeat, thrift store decorator and I'd really love to have seen more of that. I look at all the cold,sterile, beautiful spaces and don't think that that is something I could-
a. ever afford
and
b. ever want to live in such a space.

[Michael · Rating 1 out of 5]

Despite the sort-of dynamic, steel-pierced industrial cover, this is a book my Mother-in-Law might like...which means I hated the damn thing. It's like a country version (country with a capital K) of an urban revitalization-oriented Architectural Digest. Or perhaps it's a Better Homes and Gardens version of, well, a decent book about lofts. Whatever it is, stay away!