Homing Instinct:
Using Your Lifestyle to Design and Build Your Home

With Homing Instinct, Connell has contributed the latest in a tradition of how-to books for owner-builders. Following in the footsteps of old classics like From the Ground Up and Building Your Own House Your Own Way, Homing Instinct is a veritable encyclopedia of information and advice for would-be builders. The book is an overview of courses at the Yestermorrow Design/Build School, which Connell founded. This nineties contribution has an added twist, however, that may expand its usefulness to design professionals: Homing Instinct has several chapters on working with an architect to design one’s own house.
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