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| | Affordable reprint of rare 1909 catalog, featuring authentic illustrations and floor plans for homes ranging from simple three-room bungalows to elaborate 10- and 12-room structures with sitting rooms, libraries, parlors, and wraparound porches. An excellent reference for home restorers, preservationists, and students of American architectural history. A delight for Americana fans and nostalgia lovers. |
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| | ISBN: 0486412512 Date Published on 8/25/2000 |
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| | The Arts & Crafts movement popularized more than a century ago is currently enjoying a revival--and with good reason. Finally, the "lowly" bungalow, once considered too small and style-starved, is gaining popularity as new bungalow communities crop up across the nation. With its emphasis on handcrafted beauty, quality workmanship, and respect for natural materials, today's bungalow style offers friendly streetscapes and sensible, ecologically oriented homes that work for modern families. Bungalow Plans contains house plans that may be modest in size by today's standards, but integrate the style and timeless charm of the past with a modern point of view. |
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| | ISBN: 1586851470 Date Published on 8/9/2002 |
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| | Here you'll find step-by-step instructions for drawing a complete set of home plans for a one-story house, an addition to an existing house, or a remodeling project. This book shows how to visualize spatial relationships, use architectural scales and symbols, sketch preliminary drawings, develop detailed floor plans and exterior elevations, and prepare a final plot plan. It even includes code-approved joist and rafter spans and how to make sure that drawings meet code requirements. |
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| | ISBN: 0932370047 Date Published on 6/1/1989 |
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| | One of the powerful forces shaping today's home-building industry is a growing need for more affordable housing. From starter homes for young couples to scaled-down houses for empty-nesters, high-value, low-cost housing is ever more in demand. One of the best ways to maximize your home-building dollars is to build from a house plan that's designed to be attainable - a home that has all the amenities but is scaled down in size and planned for affordable construction. Every house plan in this book helps you do just that. |
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| | ISBN: 0376011874 Date Published on 8/1/1995 |
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| | ADOBE HOUSES FOR TODAY features 12 plans for compact, beautifully-proportioned adobe homes in modern and traditional styles. Yet the book offers much more. The richly illustrated text shows how the basic houses, designed for today's smaller families, can be as flexible as a set of building blocks. Intriguing drawings demonstrate how readers can expand and adapt the plans to fit their own budgets, family sizes, style preferences, and building sites.
After a brief look at adobe's rich history, ADOBE HOUSES FOR TODAY surveys adobe's advantages as a building material. Next, readers take an eye-opening tour through the facts and fantasies of energy conservation. Then, the heart of the book illustrates the basic and expanded versions of the plans, using them as examples of design techniques that increase livability and control costs in any house. The book also explains site requirements, adobe construction, and estimating basics with an adobe house that "assembles itself." ADOBE HOUSES FOR TODAY and its associated construction drawings are valuable, enjoyable tools not only for those buying, building, or remodeling a house, but also for contractors, drafters, drafting teachers, and real estate professionals. |
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| | ISBN: 0865343209 Date Published on 10/1/2001 |
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| | A perennial best seller, this new edition features the most popular portfolios and brand-new plans from the nation's top designers. This encyclopedic showcase has been completely revised and updated to reflect the new century in style and design. -Rugged mountain retreats to European estates, you'll find the perfect size and style home to fit you and your family's needs. -Begin your tour with Best-Selling Homes, a full-color chapter featuring some of the most beautiful homes in the nation. -Complete blueprints are available for every home and feature easy-to-read floor plans and additional planning products to give your home that personal touch. Whether your taste runs to French cottages or Craftsman bungalows, Encyclopedia of Home Designs, Third Edition is sure to have the home you've been looking for. |
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| | ISBN: 1931131120 Date Published on 2/1/2003 |
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| Leading real-estate author Robert Irwin provides home builders with valuable money-saving tips to building a home from the ground up in Tips & Traps When Building Your Home. Featuring a self-test to determine whether the reader is more suited to hiring it all out or doing some of it alone, this user-friendly guide outlines the perilous traps that often come with building your own home. Irwin helps readers determine whether or not to hire out the entire process or whether to act as the primary contractor. Once that is decided, Irwin then helps builders determine:
- How building and contracting effects home-owners' insurance
- Whether or not to hire an architect
- If building plans need to be presented to the local zoning board
- Contractors' and builders' adherence to electrical codes, sewage codes, and occupancy codes
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| | ISBN: 007135686X Date Published on 8/28/2000 |
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| | 25 Houses Under 2,500 Square Feet discusses carefully defined spaces and how space can be used most effectively. The 25 recently-constructed homes featured are 2,500 feet and under with some as small as 640 square feet. An exciting collection -- a charming one square foot in size -- presents dream houses any person can relate to, as well as innovative and exciting designs sure to inspire and amaze. |
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| | ISBN: 006008944X Date Published on 3/4/2003 |
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| | A consumer-friendly guide to do-it-yourself add-ons and other home improvement jobs, complete with architect-created plans. |
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| | ISBN: 0830639292 Date Published on 4/1/1992 |
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