This template helps us design your home to fit your family’s needs, meet your sense of style, maintain the Artisan Homes level of features and still be within Central Oregon’s average new home costs.Īll of the “Artisan Advantages” apply to the “Not So Big Building System”. To help lower costs without sacrificing the quality features that make an Artisan Home great, we created a template specifically engineered to keep the end cost low, quality higher, and the building process short and sweet.

Working from Sarah Susanka’s concept of higher quality – less space we have developed a design-build model that follows the “Not So Big” philosophy. For more about Sarah and her designs see her landing page under Exclusives. Her “Not so Big House” principles were well received and have become a movement within the U.S. Best-selling author and architect Sarah Susanka collaborated with BMI to bring the Not So Big Show House 2005 online. Award-winning architect and best-selling author Sarah Susanka (The Not So Big® House series of books) shows how to 'build better, not bigger' with her thoughtful plans for todays families. design your home in consideration of your needs and your lifestyle size is relative to needs. In 1998 architect and author Sarah Susanka introduced an interesting concept to the American public. Shortly after the original version of this house appeared in a magazine (also Fine Homebuilding as it turns out), Sarah received a call from a builder in Hawaii who was working with a business partner to find a house plan to build on a beautiful piece of property on the Big Island. Susanka is a sought-after speaker by companies including Target, Lowes, Johnson & Johnson and Best Buy, as well as by the U.S.

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