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The Pretty Good House
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#2I always assumed that "defenestration" was one of those words like under/overwhelmed where it's only ever used with a prefix. Cool to see a book with a section on fenestration
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#3I always assumed that "defenestration" was one of those words like under/overwhelmed where it's only ever used with a prefix. Cool to see a book with a section on fenestration
An industry trade show is (or at least was) called "Fenestration".
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#4It was fun to listen to Dan Kolbert a while back where he talked a little about this, https://www.keepcraftalive.org/keep-craft-alive-podcast-ep-1..., the (at least partly tongue-in-cheek) quote that still sticks in my mind is that his business was, until he got into high-performance building, "improving the lives of the bourgeoisie one kitchen at a time".
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#5Interesting. Looks like a more nitty-gritty complement to the Not So Big House movement that had a moment around the turn of the century. https://susanka.com/not-so-big-house/
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#6I always assumed that "defenestration" was one of those words like under/overwhelmed where it's only ever used with a prefix. Cool to see a book with a section on fenestration
I found it gruntling.
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#7Highly recommend the book. I have one for reference and I hand them out as gifts to those I encounter interested in building sciences and pragmatic high performance homes.
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#8A friend told me about the post. Thanks for the kind words. Glad you’ve all found it useful.
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#10I always assumed that "defenestration" was one of those words like under/overwhelmed where it's only ever used with a prefix. Cool to see a book with a section on fenestration
There's a term for that: unpaired word