Get Your House Right
Author: Ben Pentreath
ISBN: 9781402791031
Publisher: Union Square
Year first published: 02 Aug 2011
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback / softback
Sick of McMansions? Marianne Cusato, creator of the award-winning Katrina Cottages, is a champion of traditional architectural principles: structural common sense, aesthetics of form, appropriateness to a neighborhood, and sustainability. She presents the definitive guide to what makes houses look and feel right, revealing the dos and donts of livable home design. Hundreds of elegant line drawings--rendering the varieties of architectural features and displaying avoid and use versions of the same elements side by side--make this an indispensable resource for designing and building a timelessly beautiful home.
ISBN: 9781402791031
Publisher: Union Square
Year first published: 02 Aug 2011
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback / softback
Sick of McMansions? Marianne Cusato, creator of the award-winning Katrina Cottages, is a champion of traditional architectural principles: structural common sense, aesthetics of form, appropriateness to a neighborhood, and sustainability. She presents the definitive guide to what makes houses look and feel right, revealing the dos and donts of livable home design. Hundreds of elegant line drawings--rendering the varieties of architectural features and displaying avoid and use versions of the same elements side by side--make this an indispensable resource for designing and building a timelessly beautiful home.
