Book Description
Offers a look at twenty-five examples of small designs to show readers what they need to know to plan the home that best fits their goals and lifestyles.
Author : Sarah Susanka
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 2000
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1561586056
Offers a look at twenty-five examples of small designs to show readers what they need to know to plan the home that best fits their goals and lifestyles.
Author : Thomas C. Hubka
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781584653721
The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic architectural study of the development of the connected farm buildings made by 19th-century New Englanders, which offers insight into the people who made them.
Author : George Howe Colt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1439124914
Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt recounts returning for one last stay with his wife and children in this stunning memoir that was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. This poignant tribute to the eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, and dormers that watched over weddings, divorces, deaths, anniversaries, birthdays, breakdowns, and love affairs for five generations interweaves Colt’s final visit with memories of a lifetime of summers. Run-down yet romantic, The Big House stands not only as a cherished reminder of summer’s ephemeral pleasures but also as a powerful symbol of a vanishing way of life.
Author : Sarah Susanka
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 1561583766
Provides a review of social trends and their effect on architecture and design.
Author : Amy Feely Morsman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813930030
Using newspapers, periodicals, organization records, and numerous letters from Virginia planation families, Morsman captures how these frustrated elites made sense of embarrassing postwar changes, in the private but also in the public spheres they inhabited. Morsman suggests that the planters' adaptations may have been carried away from the crumbling plantations by their adult children into the urban house-holds of the New South. --Book Jacket.
Author : John Michael Vlach
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Back of the Big House: The Architecture of Plantation Slavery
Author : Yoshi Ueno
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1646141059
Little Mouse and Big Bear live on opposite ends of the same road, and they both would like a friend. But every morning, Little Mouse and Big Bear pass by each other, unnoticed. Until one day, their eyes meet! It's a little awkward at firs—as most new friendships can be—but soon enough they're sipping warm tea together in Big Bear's cozy home, and making plans to meet again the following Sunday. When a nasty storm blows into town will it wreck everything they've built? This tale of friendship and bravery will warm your heart like a cookie and a warm drink shared with a friend.
Author : Sarah Susanka
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Dwellings
ISBN : 156158827X
C.1, GENRAL FUNDS, BARNES & NOBLES, 3/30/2010, $32.00.
Author : Sherry Petersik
Publisher : Artisan
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,25 MB
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1579656765
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.
Author : John M. Eason
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,32 MB
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 022641034X
Now more than ever, we need to understand the social, political, and economic shifts that have driven the United States to triple its prison construction in just over three decades. John Eason goes a very considerable distance here in fulfilling this need, not by detailing the aftereffects of building huge numbers of prisons, but by vividly showing the process by which a community seeks to get a prison built in their area. What prompted him to embark on this inquiry was the insistent question of why the rapid expansion of prisons in America, why now, and why so many. He quickly learned that the prison boom is best understood from the perspective of the rural, southern towns where they tend to be placed (North Carolina has twice as many prisons as New Jersey, though both states have the same number of prisoners). And so he sets up shop, as it were, in Forrest City, Arkansas, where he moved with his family to begin the splendid fieldwork that led to this book. A major part of his story deals with the emergence of the rural ghetto, abetted by white flight, de-industrialization, the emergence of public housing, and higher proportions of blacks and Latinos. How did Forrest City become a site for its prison? Eason takes us behind the decision-making scenes, tracking the impact of stigma (a prison in my backyard-not a likely desideratum), economic development, poverty, and race, while showing power-sharing among opposed groups of elite whites vs. black race leaders. Eason situates the prison within the dynamic shifts rural economies are undergoing, and shows how racially diverse communities can achieve the siting and building of prisons in their rural ghetto. The result is a full understanding of the ways in which a prison economy takes shape and operates."