The Book Of Old Houses

Author : Sarah Graves
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1444793101
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Old Houses written by Sarah Graves and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree was a hotshot money manager to Manhattan's rich and dreadful - until she left city life behind for a centuries-old fixer-upper in the quaint seaside town of Eastport, Maine. But even this tiny haven has its hazards - and they can be astonishingly deadly... What would you do if a long-buried book was unearthed from beneath your 1823 fixer-upper a book containing your name written in blood? That's the mystery Jake faces in the midst of her latest old-house renovations. But it's only the first in a town better known for its scenic views and historic homes than its body count. Now Jake is putting aside her hammer and fixing to find someone who's got the blueprint for a perfect murder.

Author : Frank Shirley
Publisher : Taunton Press
ISBN 13 : 1561588857
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Rooms for Old Houses written by Frank Shirley and published by Taunton Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides advice for adding additions to older homes, considering balance, transition, public versus private space, and materials; and including photographs, floor plans, and illustrations.

Author : Henry Wiencek
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781556704048
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Houses written by Henry Wiencek and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Sterling Publishing (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780806974163
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old House Book of Classic Country Houses written by and published by Sterling Publishing (NY). This book was released on 1990 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger W. Moss
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812234381
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Houses of Philadelphia written by Roger W. Moss and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1998-05-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historic Houses of Philadelphia" brings the region's most impressive museum homes to life with maps, touring information, and historical notes on 50 distinctive homes. 160 photos, 150 in color.

Author : Nigel Hutchins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781552091449
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restoring Old Houses written by Nigel Hutchins and published by . This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over three hundred photographs and diagrams provide examples for remodeling older homes.

Author : Hannah Jenkins
Publisher : Images Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781864707533
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British + Irish Modern written by Hannah Jenkins and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -Demonstrates how key architects across Britain and Ireland are blending contemporary design practices with traditional vernacular buildings -Features stunning full-color photography throughout, informative descriptions and detailed floor plans -Will appeal to all architects, landscape designers, urban planners, developer-clients, and educators -Features an array of award-winning and highly commended projects including Bureau de Change's Folds House, winner of a 2016 Times Best Homes Award; Coppin Dockeray's Antsy Plum, winner of the 2016 South West RIBA Award; Tsuruta Architects' House of Trace, winner of RIBA's 2016 Stephen Lawrence Prize; Cassion Castle Architects' Oak Lane House, winner of the Daily Telegraph's Home Buildings Awards Best Residential Design 2016; and Broadstone's Tireighter Cairn, winner of the Single House Building category at the 2017 Building and Architect of the Year Awards House design in Britain and Ireland is guided by climate, landscape and local resources just as much as the centuries-old traditions that have influenced architectural shape and form. Today's best-known and emerging architects interpret their briefs with imaginative flair: they are transforming houses for the next generation of families by blending their renewed vigor for a local aesthetic with new materials and trends. Many of the new houses featured in British & Irish Modern reflect the architect's focus on redefining local expectations for form by beautifully juxtaposing the traditional with contemporary structures, thus forging a new vernacular. Architects across this region are wholeheartedly seeking opportunities to re-use existing structures in myriad ways, resulting in surprising and remarkably unique renditions of old houses and buildings made new. Shown in stunning, full-color photographic detail are hundreds of pages of new and renovated houses, cottages and even converted barns nestled in misty rural valleys, including new and retrofitted modern inner-city terraces and townhouses that make the best use of available space. Houses are selected for levels of comfort, use of materials, and dramatic expression of traditional and contemporary architecture, as well as houses that capitalize on longer and warmer summers imposed by changing weather patterns in this corner of the globe. Houses are designed with indoor spaces and intimate courtyards for play and recreation that draw in light and shield from the extreme weather elements yet maintain an eye on sustainability and affordability. British & Irish Modern reveals a rich array of works that showcase how architecture in Britain and Ireland today has much to teach the world about creative, high-caliber design, innovative application of materials, and cautious but clever reliance on resources.

Author : Laurie Ossman
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847833097
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Houses of the South written by Laurie Ossman and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exquisitely photographed collection of the great houses and mansions of the South. In the tradition of Rizzoli’s Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley and Great Houses of New England, Great Houses of the South features a stunning array of newly photographed homes that range over three centuries and are distinctive examples of the architecture of the region. While in popular imagination the "Southern Style" is embodied in the classic Southern plantation house with its Greek Revival detailing—its stately white columns, wide porch, and symmetrical shape—the houses themselves are much more various and engaging, as shown in this important volume. From stately Stanton Hall of Natchez, Mississippi, one of the most magnificent and palatial residences of antebellum America; to Longue Vue House and Gardens of New Orleans, the luxurious Classical Revival–style home of Edgar and Edith Stern; to the fabled Biltmore of Asheville, North Carolina, the opulent French Renaissance–inspired chateau and Gilded Age estate of George Washington Vanderbilt, this lavish volume is comprehensive in scope and a landmark work of enduring interest to homeowners, architects, architecture historians, and all those who love fine architecture.

Author : Clive Aslet
Publisher : Triglyph Books
ISBN 13 : 9781916355408
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Homes, New Life written by Clive Aslet and published by Triglyph Books. This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Each of the 12 houses will be featured in national and international press to announce the book- In the UK, the media includes Tatler, House & Garden, Country Life, The English Home, and Telegraph Luxury Online- In the US, the media includes Town & Country, Architectural Digest Online, The AD Aesthete Podcast, Air Mail, and DeparturesThis book is a sumptuously produced journey around 12 privately-owned country houses, asking what it is like to live in such places today. What role do they play in the 21st century? For many years after the Second World War, the country house was struggling. Now a new generation of young owners, often with children, has taken over. They're finding innovative ways to live in these ancient, fragile and poetic places. While they treasure the history and beauty of the houses, they're also adapting and enhancing them for a modern era. Old Homes, New Life is a behind-the-scenes account of today's aristocracy, as they reinvent the country house way of life. Each family does this in its own way, maintaining the tradition of individualism, even eccentricity, which is so much associated with country houses. Dylan Thomas's superb yet intimate photographs capture both the inhabitants of these houses and the spaces they occupy - from State dining to family kitchen, walled garden to attic. This feast for the eyes is accompanied by an equally mouth-watering text by Clive Aslet, based on interviews with family members and his long experience of the subject through his years as editor of Country Life. The result is an exclusive tour of a dozen spectacular homes.

Author : Richard Hampton Jenrette
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982573709
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Adventures with Old Houses written by Richard Hampton Jenrette and published by . This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dick Jenrette's newest book, More Adventures With Old Houses, he writes about his odyssey of finding and returning the antiques and fine arts that belonged to the early 19th century owners of Edgewater, his classical revival home, built in the 1820s on the Hudson river. The story of how these furnishings came home again is nothing short of miraculous. This book is a sequel to Adventure With Old Houses.