Get Your House Right : Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid
Overview
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.
Details
- ISBN-13: 9781402791031
- ISBN-10: 1402791038
- Publisher: Union Square & Co.
- Publish Date: August 2011
- Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
- Page Count: 272
