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Author
Publisher
Taunton Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"The key to creating a house that is memorable, satisfying, and enduring is to apply a group of design concepts - or patterns - that focus on the experience of being in a home. In this groundbreaking work, internationally respected architects Max Jacobson, Murray Silverstein, and Barbara Winslow present the ten essential patterns that shape and define a well-crafted home. Patterns explore the presence of light, the relationship between indoors and...
Author
Publisher
Harper Design
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From the author of the successful 150 Best series comes the debut entry in the forward-thinking Open Concept Houses series, filled with nearly 500 pages of color photos - sure to become the ultimate resource for this fast-growing trend in home design and renovation. One of the hottest lifestyle trends today, open concept living spaces eliminate doorways and walls to create a large combined area for cooking, dining, entertaining, and relaxing. No longer...
Publisher
Creative Homeowner
Language
English
Description
"If you're planning to build your own one-story dream home, this extensive collection will show you the best selling and most stylish designs available today! More than 360 home plans were selected for Best-Selling 1-Story Home Plans, 5th Edition as most desirable house plans based on actual sales data. From convenient ranch homes to traditional cottages, you'll find a wide variety of styles and sizes here to meet your budget. With the complete construction...
Author
Publisher
Jacqui Small
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
There is an enormous pleasure in having a place where you can get away from it all, a small intimate space where you can live out your fantasies or simply indulge a passion. This could be a boat moored on an urban waterway or a wilderness shack miles from anywhere, lost among nature. The book is divided into two main sections, with a wealth of case studies showing a fantastic selection of individual homes from home. Huts and Hideways includes low-impact...
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A showcase of sustainable living in prefab, solar, mobile and modular houses. In this book, architect Ana Maria Alvarez presents an array of the world's best sustainable residential architecture. Studying houses in many countries, she provides photographs, floor plans and elevations, mechanical schematics showing water and air circulation, and more to reveal how even the smallest home can be sustainable, functional and beautiful. Each of the homes...
Publisher
Creative Homeowner
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of 350 of today's newest and most popular modern farmhouse designs with open, functional floor plans and simple, striking exteriors, Ultimate Book of Modern Farmhouse Plans is the one-stop shop for anyone looking to find their dream home. Carefully chosen and curated, this book features hundreds of desirable, ready-to-purchase house plans you can build right away. Also included are expert articles on modern farmhouse design and decorating,...
Author
Publisher
Firefly Books
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
202 Outstanding House Ideas is packed with 600 pages of ideas for the dream house. For practicing professionals and homeowners this is a reference to successful designs chock full of ideas, analyses and successful applications from around the world. More than 750 outstanding interior and exterior color photographs, floor plans, elevations, renderings, and building sections showcase house exteriors and interiors constructed and finished with a great...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An enthusiast's guide to exploring historic houses of England, this informative book also enables readers to discover more about the history of their own houses. Users can learn to interpret domestic architecture, identify period styles, uncover the origins of a building, and understand why rooms are arranged in particular sequences, why window and chimney designs change through history, or why staircases are presented in a certain fashion. Color...
Publisher
The Taunton Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In this new collection of small houses from Fine Homebuilding magazine, the authors look at houses both new and remodeled, traditional and modern, urban and rural, by the water and in the mountains. The houses exude as much style as homes many times their square footage, and all are as big as they need to be to fit the lifestyles and aspirations of the people who live in them"--
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