Product Description
In today’s increasingly health-conscious world, homeowners are paying more attention to creating spaces conducive to a fit lifestyle. The possibilities available go far beyond building a home gym that you may or may not ever use. Whether by grand staircases for daily exercise or thoughtful floor plans to encourage walking or even cleverly incorporated climbing walls, indoor pools, or other sporting elements, your home can promote good health through its design. Hig… More >>
I got this book to get inspiration for designing a home that would promote a healthy athletic lifestyle. It didn’t give me what i wanted.
The book has some nice photos of some nice homes, but they are not in anyway inspirational to a fit lifestyle. Nothing new, nothing great.
Rating: 2 / 5
I got got! LOL!! I thought that there would be some real concepts in this book to inspire me. Negatrino on that one! “High Fit Home” Really….
Rating: 2 / 5
This is the kind of coffee table book that you actually read! It’s not only gorgeous and inspiring to see –the pictures are amazing, but the back story on each very interesting. Super creative concept to combine architecture and health/fitness It’s smart, organized, current, futuristic and historical. A must read/see for health-minded and architectural enthusiasts.
Rating: 5 / 5
If you want great, stunning photographs of what can be done to design a home to assure the physical fitness of those living in it, this book is a must buy. The heart of the book is the beautifully illustrated examples of homes that have been designed to be fitness friendly. The introduction and chapter 1 discussing the history of fitness and need for people to be more fit in modern society are standard stuff. The book concludes with helpful hints about what to do if you want to make your own home fitness friendly.
That said, the examples of fitness friendly homes are obviously those built for the upper income tier of upper income groups. Knowing such home design and re-modeling was possible and being done on a limited basis, I was hoping the author would at least speculate on whether the innovations to make the American home fitness friendly would percolate down to become standard in all upper income and eventually middle income housing and even suggest what would be needed to make this happen.
As more and more people work from home and lifestyles become ever more sedentary, we need more ways to make exercise possible, so more on what could be done to enhance the average, or even slightly above average, home to make it fitness friendly would have earned the book a fifth star in my review.
Rating: 4 / 5