While conjuring up comfort in the home seems like a basic principle, it’s a far more complex process for architect & remodeling guru Sarah Susanka, who believes that comfort can significantly ...

Sarah Susanka is wildly popular as architects go. Her several books touting “Not So Big” houses have sold more than 1 million copies. But that doesn't make it easy for her to break into the mainstream ...

SO you’ve arrived. Good career, clean credit, growing family. It’s time for a better house, which for most people means a bigger one. Watch out, says author and architect Sarah Susanka. “They can be ...

The one-of-a-kind Craftsman designed by "Not So Big House" author Sarah Susanka is on the market for $1.975 million. When Bruce Coppock and Lucia May were house-hunting in 2000, they had a challenge ...

Sarah Susanka delivers. For more than a decade the architect has been designing “Not So Big Houses” and writing books about them. Fans have studied the pictures, reread the texts and tried to imagine ...

AUTHOR AND architect Sarah Susanka’s “Not So Big” philosophy has sold more than a million books and catapulted her to national prominence as a cultural visionary. By declaring that comfort has nothing ...

If you plan to build a new home or remodel your existing residence, first spend time studying author Sarah Susanka’s “Not So Big Solutions for Your Home.” In her latest book, Susanka emphasizes modest ...

I interviewed Sarah Susanka when she was in Seattle a year or so ago and working on this book, a departure from her usual architectural best-sellers. She explained to me with a laugh that learning to ...

In 1998, Sarah Susanka, a soft-spoken Minneapolis-based architect, stormed the starter castle. Her book, "The Not So Big House," became a surprise bestseller, galvanized a movement for sensibly sized, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Sixteen years ago this month, while covering real estate for the Los Angeles Times, I interviewed a little-known architect on the verge of becoming a ...

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