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A field guide to American houses
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Virginia McAlester, A. Lee McAlester
The guide that enables you to identify, and place in their historic and architectural contexts, the houses you see in your neighborhood or in your travels across America. 17th century to the present.
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Not So Big House
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Sarah Susanka, Kira Obolensky
Simpler lifestyles, higher quality leisure time with family and friends - these and other trends in society lay the foundation for this important, thought-provoking design and architecture book. In it, Sarah Susanka, LIFE Magazine's Architect of the Year, offers thoughtful guidelines for designing homes that more accurately reflect our lifestyles ...
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Outside the Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of Home
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Julie Moir Messervy, Sarah Susanka
"Outside the Not So Big House" offers a unified source of design advice about making the indoors and outdoors work together. Through the unique pairing of bestselling author and residential architect Sarah Susanka and landscape designer and award-winning writer Julie Moir Messervy, two highly qualified experts teach us how to think in a new way ...
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Creating the Not So Big House: Insights and Ideas for the New American Home
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Sarah Susanka, Grey Crawford (Photographer)
In this volume Susanka provides attractive alternatives to the American obsession with huge homes, focusing on the opportunities owners of small homes can take advantage of, like cozy window seats and breakfast nooks. Photographs of beautifully appointed small-home interiors offer inspiration, and by including only architectural plans available ...
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Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design
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Max Jacobson, Murray Silverstein, Barbara Winslow
Two of the authors of the famous A PATTERN LANGUAGE list the 10 essentials of a successful home, including proportion, good light, outdoor rooms, and designing welcoming "in between" areas (such as porches and window seats) into the plan. Includes extensive photographs and detailed diagrams of 30+ residences.
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Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live
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Sarah Susanka, Kira Obolensky
This title offers an inspiration for homeowners and builders from a leading architect. "The Not So Big House" has sold over 500,000 copies since 1998. It features clear guidance that emphasises the use of quality not quantity. This anniversary edition includes 32 extra pages and a new introduction. Now available in paperback, the expanded 10th ...
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Not So Big Solutions for Your
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Sarah Susanka
By the author of THE NOT SO BIG HOUSE, here are a variety of solutions to the problems arising from living in small spaces, including ideas for storage areas, entryways, and cramped kitchens, as well as for remodeling on a budget. Susanka specializes in practical, low-key, inexpensive solutions for easier and more convenient living.
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Architecture: Residential Drafting and Design
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Clois E Kicklighter
Architecture-Residential Drawing and Design provides comprehensive instruction for preparing architectural working drawings using traditional and computer-based methods. The text also serves as a reference for design and construction principles and methods. Organized logically around the design-building process in an exciting format, the text is ...
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House Colors: Exterior Color by Style of Architecture
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Susan Hershman
"House Colors" is comprehensive guide that takes the guesswork out of choosing an exterior home colour. Selecting paint colours can be overwhelming, and exterior paint colours are particularly tricky-a house is a very large object to paint, colour looks different on large, scale and colours change dramatically under different light conditions. ...
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Houses: The Illustrated Guide to Construction, Design & Systems
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Henry S Harrison
Originally published 17 years ago, this book has enjoyed amazing longevity as a professional handbook for real estate agents. In clear language, it begins with a look at communities, neighborhoods and sites, then delves into the details of interior and exterior house design and styles. The book extensively covers the construction of a house, the ...
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Building Your Own Home for Dummies
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Kevin Daum, Janice Brewster, Peter Economy
This book helps you keep construction on track with helpful checklists. Turn your dream of a custom home into reality! Thinking about building your own home? This easy-to-follow guide shows you how to plan and build a beautiful home on any budget. From acquiring land to finding the best architect to overseeing the construction, you get lots of ...
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Residential Landscape Architecture: Design Process for the Private Residence
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Norman K Booth, James E Hiss
For courses in Landscape Design. This text was written for students who are beginning their design careers, as well as those currently practicing residential design. This text provides students with the quality fundamentals of residential site design-exploring functional and artistic elements, with a focus on appreciation of quality and updated ...
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The Not So Big House Collection
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Sarah Susanka
Available for the first time are Susanka's bestselling books in one handsome slipcase set. This great gift package offers all of her trendsetting architectural ideas in one set. Illustrations.
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Home by Design: Transforming Your House Into Home
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Sarah Susanka
In this groundbreaking book, Sarah Susanka looks at the key design concepts behind all well-designed homes. With these essential ideas, she allows all homeowners to transform a house from mere shelter into a comfortable home filled with character and beauty. The author presents 27 key concepts that can be applied to any home - no matter what the ...
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The House Book
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Phaidon Press (Creator)
There's a house on each page of this little book, with information about its identity and history. The structures are arranged alphabetically, and include the Palace of Knossos on Crete from 1600 B.C. and Paolo Soleri's 1949 Dome House.
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The Western Guide to Feng Shui: Creating Balance, Harmony, and Prosperity in Your Environment
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Terah Kathryn Collins
This is a collection of over twenty true stories about people who have increased their prosperity using Feng Shui principles. Gathered from around the United States and Europe, these 'rags to riches' tales take you into the homes and businesses of people from all walks of life who, by using the art and science of Feng Shui, solved their problems ...
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The Barefoot Home: Dressed-Down Design for Casual Living
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Marc Vassallo
Relaxed, open, filled with light, and intimately connected to the outdoors, barefoot houses make living at home feel like being on vacation 365 days a year. The 24 houses featured here range from a long, low house on the Kansas prairie to an adobe home in New Mexico and a New England cottage by the sea.
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The most beautiful house in the world
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Witold Rybczynski
The Most Beautiful House in the World is a book about architecture: about what architects do; how they get it right; what an architectural genius can see; and what distinguishes architecture from gastronomy. Illustrated.
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Home by Design: Insipration for Transforming House Into Home
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Sarah Susanka, Grey Crawford (Photographer)
Susanka presents 30 design concepts that can transform any house into a welcoming home filled with character, beauty, and comfort. Opening readers' eyes to what's possible, she makes spatial design accessible to the layperson.
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Creating a New Old House
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Russell Versaci
Architect Russell Versaci shows that it is possible to design and create a new house that looks and feels like it has always been there. Featuring 17 homes that are the best examples classic regional styles, Versaci shows how to create a home that feels old and lives new. The book explores how architects, builders, and craftsmen are reinterpreting ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses
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Alan Weintraub (Photographer), Kenneth Frampton, Thomas S Hines
For the first time, all 289 extant houses designed by the master architect are shown here in exquisite color photographs. Along with Weintraub's stunning photos and a selection of floor plans and archival images, the book includes text and essays by several leading Wright scholars.
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Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter
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Lloyd Kahn
Building on the enormous success of his book "Shelter," Kahn continues his odyssey of finding and exploring the most magnificent and unusual hand-built houses in existence.
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Architecture: residential drawing and design
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Clois E Kicklighter
Architecture: Residential Drawing and Design provides comprehensive instruction for preparing architectural working drawings using traditional and computer-based methods. The book is also designed to serve as a reference for design and construction principles and methods. Coverage of state-of-the-art technology is superior.
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Craftsman Homes
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Gustav Stickley
296 architectural drawings, floor plans, and photographs illustrate 40 different kinds of "Mission-style" homes from "The Craftsman" (1901-16), voice of American style of simplicity and organic harmony.
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House Thinking: A Room-By-Room Look at How We Live
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Winifred Gallagher
This lyrical, room-by-room exploration of the American home past, present, and future reveals how houses reflect identity and affect daily lives.
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