Victorian Dream Homes

· The only book of its kind is updated with more plans from more designers specializing in the grace and elegance of the Victorian era.

· Expanded offerings for Gothic Revival, Italiante, Queen Anne, Folk and Farmhouse.
· Modern floor planning combines with classic exteriors.
· A fabulous full-color section shows off the best of these striking designs.
· Complete construction blueprints are available separately.

Hillside Home Plans

From small homes to large homes, Hillside Home Plans offers readers 300 of the most elegant, stylish, and efficient home designs available featuring the option of expanding the living area in the lower level. The wide variety of featured styles and sizes are selected due to sales history. With more than 250 color photographs, Hillside Home Plans provides a distinct combination of full-color photography and illustrations throughout of actual homes built from the featured plans. In addition to the designs, practical tips and expert advice guide the potential homeowner through creating interior and exterior accents for the new home.

Hillside Homes: 208 Sloping-Lot & Multi-Level Designs : 1000 to over 5,500 Square Feet

Hillside Homes: 208 Sloping-Lot & Multi-Level Designs : 1000 to over 5,500 Square Feet

-Inventive designs that make the most of today's beautiful and challenging building sites.
-An elegant book featuring contemporary and traditional styles sure to enhance a unique lot.
-Split-levels and split-foyers.
-One- and two-story designs.
-Walk out basements.
-Homes from 1,000 to over 5,000 square feet.
-Complete construction drawings available separately.

Spectacular Homes of Greater Washington, D.C.: An Exclusive Showcase of Designers in Washington D.C., Northern Virginia & Maryland

Spectacular Homes of Greater Washington, D.C.: An Exclusive Showcase of Designers in Washington D.C., Northern Virginia & Maryland

This series features the leading interior designers working in each city or region. Each collection features an impressive array of breathtaking homes that highlight some of the country's most talented designers. Whether it is the designer’s own home or that of a client, the stylish interiors selected for each book exemplify each designer’s best work, offering a look at the accomplishments and diverse styles of the top design professionals working in the interior design field today. Stylish and contemporary, these are extraordinary homes that will captivate and inspire.

Spectacular Homes of the Carolinas

Over 250 photographs of the work of nearly 50 leading interior designers in North and South Carolina, including Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, Greenville, Charleston and Hilton Head. Some of the featured designers include Tim Bagwell, Calvin Hefner, Linda Knight Carr, Linda Burnside, Ceil Phillips and Brenda Lyne.

Spectacular Homes of Georgia: An Exclusive Showcase of Georgia's Finest Designers

When you think of 'Spectacular Homes' you tend to think of LA or New York, maybe Aspen or some place like that. You don't think of Georgia, or at least I don't.

This book shows that I should think more about other places. And to be sure, Atlanta is home to some large companies (Coke for instance) that have produced wealthy families. So why not Atlanta.

This book showcases the work of nearly fifty designers that have produced homes easily worth picturing. As one of these architects says, 'what's right is whatever the client wants.' And the homes shown here vary from ultra modern to Gone With The Wind traditional, from formal to casual. Above all else, the rooms shown are 'Spectacular.'

The book is on interior design, so it does not show the exterior of the house and its settings. The rooms may be in the houses of the designer, they may be of clients. The designer picked the house and the room to show off their work. The photography is excellent, including some very tricky views where the sun coming from outside would tend to confuse the camera. After that it was beautifully printed, on high quality paper to show off the photographs.

Designing Your Perfect House

If you ve ever considered building your dream home, here is a step-by-step guidebook that will take you through the design process. Designing Your Perfect House: Lessons from an Architect concerns the thought process of planning and creating a house, the methodology of the design, and how to get everything right.


Reading this book, you will gain insights about how to:

Gain control of the design and building process

Choose a perfect site for your house

Avoid costly mistakes

Unify an architectural design

Not just design a house, but how to design a home

Budget in a realistic manner

The basic premise of the book is that there is no such thing as the perfect house; there is only your perfect house. An architect s task is to help you achieve that dream. The experience of home design and construction should be controllable, gratifying, and enjoyable. With the valuable advice that Designing Your Perfect House: Lessons from an Architect provides, it can be.

Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design

Coauthors (along with several other writers) of the landmark design guide A Pattern Language, Jacobson and Silverstein join with their architectural partner, Winslow, to further simplify building design by distilling the principles they previously set forth as ten essentials for residential homes. These fundamentals cover such subjects as making the best use of light; keeping all parts of the house from windows to walls to rooms in proportion; and including "in-between" places like porches, window seats, alcoves and sunrooms in the design of the home. Some of their concepts are fairly abstract; for example, they suggest imagining the home as not just a building but a "site" that contains both indoor and outdoor rooms, and they counsel readers to "let the overall form of the house grow naturally out of the forms of its various parts, rather than being superimposed from the outside." These theories are complemented by more concrete advice about how to measure out a human-sized room, balance private and common spaces and much more. The authors include diagrams and color photographs of 33 actual homes with detailed explanatory captions. While it is aimed predominately at professional designers, this guide is useful for anyone contemplating a new home or making renovations to an existing one; certainly it will change the way readers think about the architectural spaces around them.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Why are some houses such a pleasure to visit or inhabit? This spin-off from A Pattern Language, which has been a design resource for decades, successfully answers that question. California architects Jacobson and Murray Silverstein helped coauthor A Pattern Language, and with partner Barbara Winslow they have chosen ten principles or patterns of house design that they consider most important (and which serve as chapter heads): "Inhabiting the Site," "Creating Rooms," "Sheltering Roof," "Capturing Light," "Parts in Proportion," "Flow Through Rooms," "Private Edges, Common Core," "Refuge and Outlook," "Places in Between," and "Composing with Materials." Each pattern is illustrated with sketches and photographs, as the authors provide beautiful examples of 33 homes by various U.S. architects or designers, mostly in the western United States. The well-organized text and layout combine with the 410 outstanding color photographs and 155 black-and-white illustrations to help the reader visualize these patterns in practice. Highly recommended for public libraries and libraries supporting architecture courses.
David R. Conn, Surrey P.L., BC

Building An Affordable House: A Smart Guide to High-Value, Low-Cost Construction

The first comprehensive guide of its kind, Building an Affordable House is for homeowners and building contractors who want to incorporate proven cost-saving techniques into their projects. Written by a contractor who has been nationally recognized for his innovative approach to cost control, this book shows readers how to generate significant savings on major projects such as building a new home or adding on to an existing one.

The first section provides an economical approach to planning projects, while the second reveals the quality-conscious, cost-cutting strategies the author has uncovered through direct construction experience and extensive consultation with industry experts. The third section covers finish details from drywall to flooring, with emphasis on saving money without compromising quality or distinctive results. Handy features include floor plans, resource listings, and project management tools.

Architectural Design of Home in Sydney

This is the modern house design of house in Sydney. This is the house with modern architecture. This sample pictures of house design can become the ideas in building a new house or renovating the exixsting house.

Exterior and Interior Architectural Design of Tiger Wood House

These are the Best sample Photos of Tiger Woods New House Remodeling Ideas that might be very important for you as his fans. Seeing tiger wood’s house, we can conclude that tiger likes something private. It can be seen from the way he builds his house which is far from the crowd. He really wants to enjoy his privacy by building a house which is far from cities but close to nature. Tiger also can not go far from Golf as seen from his private yacht that can also be used to play golf with his family, relatives and friends. Do you want to follow his way to build a beautiful house which is so close with nature? If so, you have to prepare a very large space to build a house as Tiger Wood’s.

Design Ideas for Home Decorating

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An ever-popular topic in the house and home category, Design Ideas for Home Decorating shows readers how to transform an ordinary house into a beautiful home. A brand new title from the best-selling Design Ideas series, this book features hundreds of gorgeous photographs showcase the work of many of today's leading designers. Savvy tips and advice include examples of basic design concepts and how to apply them to every room in the house. Topics include working with space; furniture arrangement; creating a color scheme; and finding a personal style.