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Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid

Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid
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Even as oversized McMansions continue to elbow their way into tiny lots nationwide, a much different trend has taken shape. 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 what makes houses look and feel right—to the eye and to the soul. She teaches us the language and grammar of classical architecture, revealing how balance, harmony, and detail all contribute to creating a home that will be loved rather than tolerated. And she takes us through the do’s and don’ts of every element of home design, from dormers to doorways to columns. Integral to the book are its hundreds of elegant line drawings—clearly rendering the varieties of lintels and cornices, arches and eaves, and displaying “avoid” and “use” versions of the same elements side by side.

 

What Customers Say About Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid:

Do's and don'ts. Great illustrations. Explains historic style and what would make your house look its best. I love this book. I needed a book that would tell me what the right details would be for my house, and this book couldn't be better.

Filled with thousands of beautiful drawings of good and bad examples, it is a delight to thumb through, as well as incredibly informative for the professional, and the amateur, alike. This is a wonderful book for those who appreciate historically accurate detailing.

It's full of "do's" and "don'ts" in side-by-side pictures that make the point perfectly clear. It has excellent advice on every detail. I can see I'll be lending it out to home builders for years, whenever I encounter someone who likes the traditional look. A few years ago, we built a plantation- or farm-style kind of house, as traditional as we could make it within the considerable limitations of modern practice and our budget. I wish we'd had this book then.

This book is clear and direct in it's purpose of making us all aware of why buildings look "right"; and why so many buildings look "wrong." This is another great addition to anyone who is directly involved with the designing of homes. I would strongly recommend that builders who think they know it all, read this before they slap together another mistake on our horizon.

This book gets right down to work with hundreds of drawings. What a great book. I love beautiful pictures of traditional homes, but having precise drawings of the good the bad and the ugly is a unique approach to a design book. How helpful to have errors of proportion beside correct interpretations of classic elements. This is the kind of thing that I wish I had found years ago. I and a scenic designer but I think that it could be a permanent part of a library for a interior designer, architect or home owner.

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