Homes From Home: Inventive Small Spaces, From Chic Shacks To Cabins And Caravans

Homes from Home: Inventive Small Spaces, From Chic Shacks To Cabins And Caravans

About the AuthorVinny Lee is the Interiors Editor of The Times Magazine, sourcing, styling and writing features about architecture, interior design and lifestyle. She studied at the University of Arts, London, and has travelled extensively for her work. She is the author of 25 books including Cool Pools and Hot Tubs, Mood Indigo, The Essential Guide to Decorating, The Colourful Home and Recycled Spaces, as well as other books on kitchen and bathroom design.There is an enormous pleasure in having a place where you can get away from it all, a small intimate space where you can live out your fantasies or simply indulge a passion. This could be a boat moored on an urban waterway or a wilderness shack miles from anywhere, lost among nature. The book is divided into two main sections, with a wealth of case studies showing a fantastic selection of individual homes from home. Huts and Hideways includes low-impact buildings, often constructed to blend with their surroundings, made of materials sympathetic to their environment. They include cabins made from wood, metal and stone or carvedfrom the landscape itself, to treehouses perched in leafy heights. The second section Homes to Go covers mobile or moveable accommodation, providing temporary shelter in various locations, from vintage shepherd