Country Living Country Color Combinations: Decorating ...
 DIVDIVDIVTo create classic country color schemes and breathtaking combinations, look no further than this foolproof guide. Pictures of houses, by a leading interiors photographer, show ideas put into beautiful practice, while pages of actual paint chips [... more]
$3.34
A1 Books |
Atomic Ranch
This book is chock-a-block full of great info: I love this book! The author's magazine (of the same name) is awesome and this book covers homes from the early issues which are no longer available (issues, not homes). I love seeing the beautiful interiors [... more]
$39.95
Amazon.com |
Weekend Utopia: Modern Living in the Hamptons
Amazon.com Review: The beach house was "the sonnet form of American architecture," writes Alastair Gordon. "This was where the revolution began." In his gracefully written, stunningly illustrated book, he shows how the evolution of [... more]
$45.00
Amazon.com |
The Smaller Home: Creating the Perfect Fit
The Average Size Home Doesn't Have to Be Average: Note that smaller in this book doesn't mean the really tiny homes that have been featured in a number of books lately. What Mr. Sater means by smaller is homes that are around the size of the national [... more]
$35.00
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Central West End, St. Louis (MO) (Images of America)
Photos of a bygone age: My wife got this book because she's from St.Louis, though not from this neighborhood. It's a compilation of photos from the turn of the century and before, depicting mostly architecture of the neighborhood known as the Central [... more]
$19.99
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Increase Your Income and Wealth Buying Apartment Buildings
Average...lacks detail; best read by real estate "newbies": As a seasoned apartment-building investor and broker, I would recommend this book only to someone who is new to real estate investing. At 119 pages of text, there is simply not much [... more]
$17.95
Amazon.com |
Mountain Houses
Contemporary Rusticity: This is a collection of 25 homes (published by Bacelona's Loft Publications) mostly built in rural - not necessarily mountainous - regions. Roughly half of the homes are located in the united states, with three by architect David [... more]
$35.00
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A Field Guide to American Houses
A great description of historical architecture styles: After some introductory chapters on the history and theory of homebuilding, the McAlesters commence with descriptions of the different styles. Each major style is described with a large stylized [... more]
$24.95
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Off The Grid
Buyer Beware!: If you are looking for practical solutions for alternative energy sources this is not the book for you. This book is a "coffee table" book and provides no information on implementing alternative energy sources whatsoever. The [... more]
$30.00
Amazon.com |
A Field Guide to American Houses
A great description of historical architecture styles: After some introductory chapters on the history and theory of homebuilding, the McAlesters commence with descriptions of the different styles. Each major style is described with a large stylized [... more]
$40.00
Amazon.com |
It Takes a Nation: How Strangers Became Family in the ...
Impressive, but Not Much For a Book!: "It Takes a Nation" tells the story of how moveon created the idea of people across the U.S. helping 30,000 of those displaced by Katrina to find shelter, and possibly even a new start. While this was an [... more]
$24.95
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The World of Jane Austen
A wonderful resource for Regency architecture: I actually read a different edition of this book, but on the theory that they are essentially the same, I'll repeat the review here. Nigel Nicolson has attempted to find every house and some of the outdoor [... more]
$19.95
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