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Edited by Deborah Balmuth and Hannah Fries
Technical editing by Philip Schmidt
Art direction and book design by Carolyn Eckert
Text production by Michaela Jebb
Cover photography by:
© Derek Diedricksen: spine (top);
© Dustin Diedricksen: back;
© Jean-Marc and Maggie Labrosse: front (bottom right);
© John Polak: front (left), inside front;
ModFruGal: spine (middle);
© Nathan Rist: spine (bottom);
© Sean F. White: front (top right)
Interior photography credits appear on page 256
Illustrations by:
© Derek Diedricksen: “favorite features,” 14, 54, 102, 128, 148;
Lee Mothes: back cover (left), plan drawings (throughout), 164–171, 181;
© Phil Hackett: back cover (right), 7 (bottom right), 11, 12–13, 160–161, 179, 192, 200–201, 204, 212, 222, 232, 240, 250
© 2015 by Derek Diedricksen
Ebook production by Slavica A. Walzl
Ebook version 1.0
September 18, 2015
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Diedricksen, Derek.
Microshelters : 59 creative cabins, tiny houses, tree houses, and other small structures / Derek Diedricksen.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-61212-353-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-61212-354-7 (ebook) 1. Outbuildings. I. Title.
TH4955.D54 2015
690’.89—dc23
2015009864