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Explains historic style and what would make your house look its best. Great illustrations. I love this book. I needed a book that would tell me what the right details would be for my house, and this book couldn't be better. Do's and don'ts.
This is a wonderful book for those who appreciate historically accurate detailing. Filled with thousands of beautiful drawings of good and bad examples, it is a delight to thumb through, as well as incredibly informative for the professional, and the amateur, alike.
I can see I'll be lending it out to home builders for years, whenever I encounter someone who likes the traditional look. It has excellent advice on every detail. A few years ago, we built a plantation- or farm-style kind of house, as traditional as we could make it within the considerable limitations of modern practice and our budget. I wish we'd had this book then. It's full of "do's" and "don'ts" in side-by-side pictures that make the point perfectly clear.
I would strongly recommend that builders who think they know it all, read this before they slap together another mistake on our horizon. This is another great addition to anyone who is directly involved with the designing of homes. This book is clear and direct in it's purpose of making us all aware of why buildings look "right"; and why so many buildings look "wrong."
This book gets right down to work with hundreds of drawings. I and a scenic designer but I think that it could be a permanent part of a library for a interior designer, architect or home owner. I love beautiful pictures of traditional homes, but having precise drawings of the good the bad and the ugly is a unique approach to a design book. What a great book. This is the kind of thing that I wish I had found years ago. How helpful to have errors of proportion beside correct interpretations of classic elements.
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