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Building Styles
21st Century Homes: Innovative
Designs by North America's Leading Architects
Beautiful Designs for Inspirational Homes From
The Country's Best Architects
Single-family homes, urban
dwellings, vacation getaways, sustainable buildings, luxury prefab
designs, and plans for future homes comprise this collection of
breathtaking photographs and insightful commentary that celebrates
the artistic contributions of almost 70 of the finest architects
working today. From classical to avant-garde, all of the featured
homes are stylistically diverse but have a distinct timelessness
about them, a tribute to the foresight of their creators’ vision.
The inspirations of such professionals as David Hovey, Robert
Gurney, Brad Lamoureux, Margaret McCurry, and Richard Meier are
revealed
25 Apartments and Lofts Under 1000
Square Feet
25 Apartments and Lofts for Great Ideas for
Apartment Living
The is the latest addition to
the best-selling 25 series, all of the the apartments and lofts
featured here are under 1,000 square feet and highlight the latest
architecture and design innovations. A range of styles, from modern
to traditional, are showcased, with an emphasis on open space and
materials such as glass, plastic, steel, and stone.
500 Bungalows Over 500 Pages of
Incredible Bungalows
Popularity meets affordability as America's favorite house style
(according to a 2005 survey on About/Architecture.com) comes at a
price point that every bungalow fan can afford. There is perennial
interest in all things bungalow related. Every year there are
numerous books, magazines and floor plans published that are all
geared to the bungalow enthusiast. Taunton Press has published
several bungalow-related books to great success including Bungalow
Style and Updating Classic America: Bungalows. 500 Bungalows
features an irresistible package at an incredible price, making this
the perfect stocking stuffer or impulse buy.
500 Cottages Over 500 Pages of
Incredible Cottages for Great Home Ideas
The popularity of cottage style
and cottage homes is thriving. A refreshing addition to the Home
Design category. 500 Cottages is a collection of the facades of 500
cottages organized by styles, including English, storybook,
bungalettes (mini bungalows), Victorian cottages, and casitas
(Spanish-style cottages). There is one photo per page, with a
caption identifying the location of the homes. 500 Cottages features
high-quality photography at a point-of-purchase price.
Bungalow Style
Creating Classic Interiors in Your Arts and
Crafts Home
The classic American bungalow is as popular today as when introduced
in the Victorian era. Bungalow Style pictures a wide variety of
interior details and describes how to add or restore elements that
suggest a historic flair while keeping the home comfortable and
functional. Common problems such as integrating modern conveniences
or gaining needed space are also addressed.
Cabinology: A Handbook to Your
Private Hideaway
Creative Ways To Make A One-of-a-kind Cabin
The book covers nuts-and-bolts topics such as cabin layout and
plumbing and mechanical systems, as well as creative ways to make a
cabin one of a kind. Minnesota architect and "cabinologist" Dale
Mulfinger, principal of Sala Architects in the Twin Cities, has
designed dozens of rustic retreats and has penned the book "The
Cabin." In his latest work "Cabinology: A Handbook to Your Private
Hideaway" ($25, Taunton Press), he guides readers through the
process of creating their own "realm of tranquility." With his
architect's eye and expertise, Mulfinger outlines the steps in
designing and building a cabin or renovating one. He covers
nuts-and-bolts topics such as cabin layout and plumbing and
mechanical systems, as well as creative ways to make a cabin one of
a kind. The book is filled with drawings, floor plans and photos of
cabins of every style and size.
Capes
Design Ideas for Renovating, Remodeling and
Building New Cape Cod Homes
Within the architectural syntax of the American homestead, the Cape
Cod house stands as one of our most durable and prolific symbols.
With its "simple one-and-a-half story form" and its steeply pitched
roof, often capped with a few dormers, the Cape has long been
accepted as a fundamental unit of middle-class comfort and modesty,
especially since its proliferation in the decades following World
War II. This volume illustrates the many ways in which the basic
Cape form has been modified and embellished over the years. In a
series of nuts and bolts profiles of successful renovations, Gitlin
walks the reader through hidden gardens and storage rooms, along
swooping rooflines and angular hallways, always with a competent,
conversational tone. Authoritative without being coercive, helpful
without nagging, this is a graceful, enlightening handbook for the
home redecorator
Colonials
Design Ideas for Renovating, Remodeling and
Building New Colonial Homes
Colonial is one of the most beautiful and enduring home styles, with
a rich past and numerous offshoots including Georgian, Dutch
Colonial, Adams style, and even Colonial Revival. This thorough
guide combines outstanding designs and proven ideas for redoing an
existing Colonial or building a new one. Featuring over 20 case
studies of updated homes and Colonials built from scratch, the book
is filled with hundreds of inspiring original color photographs and
before-and-after plans.
Colonial Style
Creating Classic Interiors in Your Cape,
Colonial or Saltbox Home
California Cape Cods and
21st-century Colonials proclaim the enduring popularity of colonial
architecture. Colonial Style provides both inspiration and
practical advice to homeowners looking to increase their home’s
livability while retaining its classic charm. The book explains the
differences between three styles – Colonial, Cape Cod, and Saltbox –
and chapters cover doors and windows, trim work, built-ins, floor
and wall treatments, paint colors, and incorporating today’s
kitchens and baths into a timeless colonial interior.
Cottage: America's Favorite Home
Inside and Out
Creating Classic Interiors in Your Cape,
Colonial or Saltbox Home
celebrates the romance and simplicity that give cottage homes their
endless appeal. With inspiring locations, colorful gardens, cozy
interiors, and intriguing nooks and crannies, the 24 cottages
featured in this unique collection are sure to delight with equal
measures of charm and diversity. Illustrated with spectacular
photographs and watercolor drawings, the cottages span the country
from Florida to the Pacific Northwest, with stops along the way at a
converted schoolhouse in Missouri, a prefab cottage in Wisconsin, a
straw-bale cottage in California, and a cottage community in
Washington state.
Graphic Guide to Interior Details A standard reference for
residential framing details This essential reference helps readers choose and install floors,
walls, ceilings, cabinets, countertops, trim and stairs. Just as Rob
Thallon's Graphic Guide to Frame
Construction is the standard for residential frame
construction details, this carefully researched volume is the
authoritative guide to interior construction details. A must-have
for the libraries of designers, builders, architects and anyone
involved in residential construction or remodeling.
Ranches
Design Ideas for Renovating, Remodeling and
Building New Ranch Homes
Ranches is a unique combination of outstanding designs and proven
ideas for renovating, remodeling, and building a ranch-style home.
Featuring over 20 examples of updated homes and new ranches, the
book is illustrated with inspiring original color photography and
before and after floor plans.
Shades of Country
Designing a Life of Comfort
In answering the question "What is Country?" this lush, colorful
coffee-table book offers an impressively detailed look at country
style as presented by design writer and author Irvine. She breaks
this particular aesthetic into six major categories: farmhouse,
grand country, cozy cottage, rusticators, clean simplicity and urban
arcadia. Detailed descriptions, closeup photos and Irvine's
explanations of the various shades' relationship to personality and
lifestyle (are you artistic and edgy? or stately and traditional?)
offer myriad options for architecture, design and crafts that can be
used to create the country look and feel that best suits a home's
inhabitants. Ideas include layered wallpaper, wall-mounted china
collections, and shells used to decorate everything from a mantel to
a headboard.
The New City Home
Meet The Unique Challenges of an Urban
Lifestyle
The New City Home offers creative ways to meet these challenges. The
book profiles 25 houses from the major metro areas of North America,
focusing on innovative design, making the most of limited space,
bringing in light and views, reducing noise, and maintaining
privacy. It offers dozens of creative solutions, complete with
how-to instructions, for a range of building types, including lofts,
apartments, and townhouses. With over 200 color photos and dozens of
illustrations, this illustrated guide truly helps the reader to make
the most of any urban living space.
The New Cottage Home A Tour of Unique
American Dwellings
It takes only a drive through any typical American subdivision to
confirm that in recent decades the average house has grown in size,
narrowed in style, and shrunk in vision. Jim Tolpin's The New
Cottage Home represents a return to a previous school of thought
about living space: that it should be no larger than is needed,
conservative of resources, rich in detail-- in short, that it should
pay homage to honest architecture and fine craftsmanship, not to
conspicuous consumption. The 30 cottage homes pictured, all recently
built, have the slightly unfair advantage of almost magically
beautiful locations, but each has a unique character and many
cottage-style nooks and crannies: the converted island pump house
with sod roof, the 600-square-foot woodland temple, the
salvage-built house on the Kansas prairie, the off-the-grid shingled
hilltop house built to take advantage of natural light.
The Ranch House
The Ranch Style of the 40's, 50's & 60's is
Making a Comeback
Like the enthusiastic embrace of
Modern-style houses in the past decade, the Ranch house today is
being snatched up and restored all across suburban America, while
longtime owners are rediscovering what seduced them in the first
place. Now Alan Hess, one of the country's leading authorities on
the 20th-century American home, offers the definitive look at the
Ranch house as he guides readers on a tour of more than 30 iconic
examples, all photographed especially for this book.
Home Design Ideas
Building an
Affordable House
Trade secrets to
high-value, low-cost construction
If you are a builder, developer, or homeowner intent on getting the
most from your new home construction or remodel budget, you need
Building An Affordable House. This book gives you the insider
techniques used every day by the best homebuilders in the country to
save thousands of dollars on the cost of every home they build.
Good House
Parts
Creating A Great Home Piece By Piece
A good home is the result of good house parts --
a certain window, a special door, a punched dormer, a romantic
overlook -- that are put together based on a homeowners personal
vision. This is the thinking that makes Good House Parts required
reading for anyone who imagines living in the "perfect" home one
day. Drawing on more than 15 years of experience as a nationally
know author and residential architect, Dennis Wedlick gives you what
you need to make a distinction between the whole house and its
unique components. He identifies hundreds of examples of quality
house parts -- from doors and windows to columns and fireplaces. You
learn how to choose elements that are perfectly suited to your
particular lifestyle. Filled with ideas that transform a house, Good
House Parts is the first book to present these parts as the building
blocks for great design.
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