Get Your House Right Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid
Get Your House Right Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid by Marianne Cusato is a comprehensive guide published by Sterling in 2007. This reprint edition spans 257 pages and is presented in English. The book focuses on traditional architectural principles, emphasizing structural common sense, aesthetic form, neighborhood appropriateness, and sustainability in residential design.
Readers will find detailed insights into effective home design, including the dos and don’ts of creating livable spaces. The book features hundreds of elegant line drawings that illustrate various architectural elements, showcasing both “use” and “avoid” versions side by side. This resource serves as a practical reference for anyone interested in architecture, building methods, and materials, guiding them toward designing timelessly beautiful homes.
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Sick of McMansions? Marianne Cusato, creator of the award-winning Katrina Cottages, is a champion of traditional architectural principles: structural common sense, aesthetics of form, appropriateness to a neighborhood, and sustainability. She presents the definitive guide to what makes houses look and feel right, revealing the dos and donts of livable home design. Hundreds of elegant line drawings–rendering the varieties of architectural features and displaying “avoid” and “use” versions of the same elements side by side–make this an indispensable resource for designing and building a timelessly beautiful home.
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