Building Doors & Gates


Book Description

Much more than physical barriers, doors and gates are powerful statements. With this book you can choose and build an entrance that reflects your personal style. Packed with designs for every architectural taste from simple to grand. Detailed charts identify component parts and joints; Steps for constructing and hanging; Exercises to help perfect door and gate making skills; Designs for all skill levels.




Building Doors & Gates


Book Description

Much more than physical barriers, doors and gates are powerful statements. With this book you can choose and build an entrance that reflects your personal style. Packed with designs for every architectural taste from simple to grand. Detailed charts identify component parts and joints; Steps for constructing and hanging; Exercises to help perfect door and gate making skills; Designs for all skill levels.




Young House Love


Book Description

This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.







The Strait Gate


Book Description

Exploring a chapter in the cultural history of the West not yet probed, The Strait Gate demonstrates how doors, gates, and related technologies such as the key and the lock have shaped the way we perceive and navigate the domestic and urban spaces that surround us in our everyday lives. Jütte reveals how doors have served as sites of power, exclusion, and inclusion, as well as metaphors for salvation in the course of Western history. More than any other parts of the house, doors are objects onto which we project our ideas of, and anxieties about, security, privacy, and shelter. Drawing on a wide range of archival, literary, and visual sources, as well as on research literature across various disciplines and languages, this book pays particular attention to the history of the practices that have developed over the centuries in order to handle and control doors in everyday life.




Building Fences & Gates


Book Description

A complete how-to manual, this book shows how to build, finish, maintain, and repair wooden fences and gates. The book includes advice on planning, deciding the purpose of the fence, adapting to the actual site, and selecting an appropriate gate. 120 photos, 60 in color.




Florida Building Code - Residential, 7th Edition (2020)


Book Description

The 7th Edition (2020) update to the Florida Building Code: Residential is a fully integrated publication that updates the 6th Edition 2017 Florida Building Code: Residential using the latest changes to the 2018 International Residential Code® with customized amendments adopted statewide. Florida Building Code Administrative Chapter 1 is included. Chapter tabs are also included. Effective Date: December 31, 2020




The Road Ahead


Book Description

In this clear-eyed, candid, and ultimately reassuring




Open I Close


Book Description

A practical handbook for the planning and construction of all forms of apertures and openings, from doors to skylights, from the first design idea to the final details, ideal for quick and targeted consultation.




The Gates of Paradise


Book Description

A rich account of the giant bronze doors created by Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti--so exquisite that Michelangelo proclaimed them suitable to serve as the Gates of Paradise.




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