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A review by rachelb36
The Perfect 100,000 dollar house by Karrie Jacobs
3.0
Jacobs travels around the United States talking to homebuilders and architects, trying to find the ideal help and the ideal location to build her dream house for only $100,000.
While I did learn about some interesting companies and organizations (such as Yestermorrow, a design/build school), the author and I have pretty different ideas about what makes the ideal home, and she mostly revolved this book around her own preferences. In short, she likes modern design and I don't. Jacobs is convinced that modern design should be the standard, not the exception, to newly built construction; but there's a reason that it's not - the majority of homebuyers here in the U.S. don't prefer it!
And despite her claim that she's serious about finding her ideally designed, affordable house, she ends up purchasing an apartment in Brooklyn while writing this very book. In the end, the book seemed just an excuse for her to travel and earn a living. I'd be curious to know if she ended up building her dream house post-publication. (Since this book was published 15 years ago.)
The book was also too long for what it contained - it began to drag and I had to force myself to finish.
Note: There is some profanity, including God's name used in vain.
While I did learn about some interesting companies and organizations (such as Yestermorrow, a design/build school), the author and I have pretty different ideas about what makes the ideal home, and she mostly revolved this book around her own preferences. In short, she likes modern design and I don't. Jacobs is convinced that modern design should be the standard, not the exception, to newly built construction; but there's a reason that it's not - the majority of homebuyers here in the U.S. don't prefer it!
And despite her claim that she's serious about finding her ideally designed, affordable house, she ends up purchasing an apartment in Brooklyn while writing this very book. In the end, the book seemed just an excuse for her to travel and earn a living. I'd be curious to know if she ended up building her dream house post-publication. (Since this book was published 15 years ago.)
The book was also too long for what it contained - it began to drag and I had to force myself to finish.
Note: There is some profanity, including God's name used in vain.