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Built for modern lifestyles, today’s timber-frame homes feature open spaces, durable craftsmanship, and an accent on comfort. This book provides a comprehensive reference to timber-frame house design, written by one of the nation’s foremost builders of this type of house. 145 color photos. 130 drawings…. More >>
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Universal Design (UD) is coming of age. Once a home design specialty that was little known, of limited interest, and a source of embarrassment more than pride, it is attracting widespread media attention and taking on (as befits its name) almost universal appeal — and with good reason. The concept emerged years ago out of the need to make homes safe and accessible for the elderly, the handicapped and the very young. Some of the design options were good-looking, but… More >>
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Great book featuring farm and rural house of the United States. 180 black and white illustrations / photographs (23 color illustrtions) of homes, farmland, farm buildings, plantation houses, rural farms and houses, outbuildings, privies, smokehouses, root cellars and other architecture and structures. Houses from Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts, Vermont, Hudson River Valley, Pennsylvania, The South, The Midwest.