Comments on: Not So Big Living = Green Living http://blog.greenteamre.com/2009/02/08/not-so-big-living-green-living/ Toward a planet of greener homes, one project at a time Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:56:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Lara Williams http://blog.greenteamre.com/2009/02/08/not-so-big-living-green-living/#comment-4 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:48:40 +0000 http://blog.greenteamre.com/?p=91#comment-4 Sarah,
Thanks for your comments on our blog! You have been an inspiration to both Dave and me since your first book. When we lived in Minneapolis we had about 3,000 square feet, much of which we never used unless we had guests in town. When we moved to Colorado 6 years ago, we started the process to simplify and downsize. It’s been fun and rewarding to put into practice your basic principles in our own homes and now that I have my own real estate company, promoting these ideas to others.

We both look forward to the release of Not So Big Remodeling, as I know we will get great ideas for our own projects, but also because many of my clients buy older homes around Fort Collins (built between 1900 and the 1960s) and then need to update them to make them more functional for how we live today and more resource efficient. I will definitely direct folks toward your newest book, as well as your others and the website.

We do intend to continue sharing our “not so big” success stories via the blog and videos and our hope is to inspire others to log on and share theirs as well.

Best Regards,
Lara

]]> By: Sarah Susanka http://blog.greenteamre.com/2009/02/08/not-so-big-living-green-living/#comment-3 Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:31:43 +0000 http://blog.greenteamre.com/?p=91#comment-3 Dear Dave and Lara,

Thanks for a great YouTube post, and congratulations on your Away Room–a perfect example of a room that does double duty.

One thing I love about the way you’ve designed the TV to move around as needed is that it solves the problem of needing a second TV for when a larger group descends to watch the game or a movie together.

And being able to pull the TV closer to you gives you the effect of a “big screen” TV without it having to overwhelm the space. As I suspect you know, I often say that the size of the screen is really irrelevant. It’s how far away from the screen your eyes are that makes the difference. So if you want a big screen TV, sit closer. That’s exactly what you’ve done, but you are making the TV do the work instead of having to move your chairs closer. Very clever!

For those who are interested in smaller better designed homes and ideas like the ones you show here, I hope you’ll encourage them to visit the http://www.notsobighouse.com website. Not So Big Remodeling, which you mention in your article, will be coming out at the beginning of March, and with any luck will help to make a lot of not so functional older homes a LOT better!

Thanks for a great video clip, and I hope you’ll share more of your not so big improvements in the future as well.

All the best,

Sarah

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