![]() The light-filled, two-story, 3,300-square-foot Prairie Style home takes advantage of a 1.13-acre hilltop lot with sweeping views and a country feel. ![]() It was the Not So Big concept and a modified blueprint of a Susanka design that inspired Montopolis residents Fred McGhee and Lisa Goddard as the couple embarked on a new living space for themselves, their two young children, Alexander, 31/2, and Thelonious, 2, and for Fred's mother, Theresia. Beginning with her 1998 best-selling book, "The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live," the North Carolina architect started a comprehensive lifestyle vision that now includes not only building plans for new construction but also landscaping, interior design details, home improvements and remodeling. ![]() Sarah Susanka's design philosophy draws on a Japanese aesthetic, Frank Lloyd Wright's conceptual use of living spaces, the Arts and Crafts movement's use of warm, natural materials and a general principle that more is not better. ![]()
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