Healthy Home Handbook
Published on 1. September 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-0-7112-2382-0 (ISBN)
Description
As an architect, Alan Berman is used to advising clients on combining design aspirations with environmental awareness. Now in this user-friendly and comprehensive guide, he presents the facts so that readers can make their own choices. Fully illustrated with photographs, diagrams and easy-to-follow charts, the book deals with all the key issues, starting with a re-assessment of traditional design, moving on to reveal the most environmentally friendly floors and floor coverings, walls and wall coverings, paints, varnishes, stains and other finishes, furniture and fabrics and including chapters on recycled materials, insulation, heating, sound and ventilation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing PLC
Illustrations
Illustrations (chiefly in col.)
Dimensions
Height: 253 mm
Width: 203 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7112-2382-0 (9780711223820)
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Person
Alan Berman practises as an architect in Oxford. He has extensive experience of renovating older properties, as well as in the design of new buildings and interiors. He has also taught at several architectural schools and is a regular contributor to architectural periodicals. He is the author of The Complete Book of Floors (Frances Lincoln), described by The Times as providing 'a well-laid path through the maze of surfaces beneath our feet'.