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Look: Designing for Hot Climates Book
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082808hotcool-01.jpg We've got a book recommendation for anyone who lives in a hot climate, is thinking about moving to a hot climate, or is just looking for ways to make their lives feel cooler! More after the jump...

 
 

082808hotcool-02.jpg Hot Homes: Creating Cool Contemporary Spaces for Hot Climates: How to Live with Heat by Suzanne Trocme is a great book covering the phenonmen of living in really hot climates and using design to help cool off. Covering such topics as terrain, building materials and furniture choices, this book can help you at whatever level of design you're currently at. Featuring gorgeous photographs, you're sure to be inspired to cool off your own design! You can find Hot Homes at BookPeople in Austin and on Amazon.com.

Let us know what ways you use to cool off your home through design!

[Photo credit: Photos from Amazon.com ]

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No tips? I've always wanted to see some Phoenix-centered stuff on here...living in the Arizona is so completely different than anywhere else I've been.

posted by Nevanna on August 28th 2008 at 12:16pm
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Is it all desert oriented, or is there tropical stuff too?

I'm in New Orleans, so we have the humid thing going for us as well as the heat.

posted by vjm on August 28th 2008 at 2:27pm
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Some shade trees would help some of those homes pictured feel cooler!

posted by LilyC on August 28th 2008 at 3:44pm
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