Risultati di ricerca
1 gen 2007 · This book addresses the tiny details that make your house look great or horrible. Specific architectural elements like entry ways, front facade, columns, dormers, arched windows, chimneys, and fireplaces are each addressed showing details to "avoid" and those to "use". Each is notated with comments on what was done correctly and incorrectly.
14 giu 2023 · Get your house right : architectural elements to use & avoid Bookreader Item Preview
2 ago 2011 · 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.
This return to traditional architectural principles venerates qualities that once were taken for granted in home design: structural common sense, aesthetics of form, appropriateness to a neighborhood, and even sustainability. Marianne Cusato, creator of the award-winning Katrina Cottages, has authored and illustrated this definitive guide to ...
Destined to become a valuable reference for builders, contractors, homeowners, and homebuyers, this comprehensive guide describes the essential elements of a house, how they work together, and how to use them appropriately. It also shows how to avoid common mistakes during the design and construction process.
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.
9 ago 2011 · Praise for Get Your House Right: “[A]n important and much needed book.”--Sarah Susanka, FAIA, architect and author of The Not So Big series and Home by Design “Marianne Cusato translates architectural language into the vernacular and, by doing so, into the reach of the average consumer, where such knowledge is guaranteed to do the most good….this 'Rosetta stone' of design will ...
- Marianne Cusato, Ben Pentreath, Richard Sammons
