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Explore a golden age in architecture when architects, builders, and
homeowners let their imaginations run wild. If you are thinking
about renovating, remodeling, or building a Victorian home, this
book will show you how the architectural features characteristic of
turn-of-the-20th century architecture were used. Here are richly
detailed 'gingerbread' trims, towers, encircling porches,
balconies, cornices, belvederes, large porte-cocheres, bay windows,
ornamental ironwork, elaborate chimneys, and much more. All who
love Victorian architecture will be informed and inspired by over
300 full color photographs of historical architectural details
found here.
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Coal Heat (Paperback)
Stanley Schuler
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R200
R166
Discovery Miles 1 660
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Practical ideas and facts on the safe and efficient use of coal.
Often forgotten as a alternative source of energy, coal has many
positive attributes. This handbook discusses the types of coal and
their use, the equipment, installation, maintenance and conversion
of furnaces to coal.
Here is a new, larger edition of a classic reference. From its
origins on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the seventeenth century,
this charming and practical style of house has been transplanted
and modified to accommodate varying life styles from as far away as
Hawai`i. Stanley Schuler has brought together the architectural
history of the Cape Cod House with many floor-plans and photographs
to be studied and enjoyed by all who live in, restore, or want to
build their own Cape Cod House. Examples range from the tiny single
style to double, triple, modified and "modern" interpretations--all
of which were practical at the time they were built.
The doors are wide open and you're welcome to wander through. Don't
worry about the carpets as you enter through stately doorways, cozy
up to colossal fireplaces, and climb poetic staircases. For those
who love the old homes of the New England area, this is a chance to
enter and inspect the window sills and cupboards up close. This
excellent new third edition features more than 400 photographs and
illustrations, along with helpful tips provided to guide the
remodeller of Jacobean, Colonial, Georgian, and Federal homes
toward duplicating these antique architectural features. There are
also architectural drawings from the Library of Congress and by
Asher Benjamin, one of the leading New England builders and most
influential designers of the late eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries.
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Cape Cod House (Hardcover)
Stanley Schuler
bundle available
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R782
R627
Discovery Miles 6 270
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The small story-and-a-half Cape Cod house is America's most popular
house style. From its origins on Cape Cod, Massachusetts in the
seventeenth century, this charming and practical style of house has
been transplanted and modified to accomodate varying life styles as
far away as Hawaii. The Cape Cod House traces the history and
explains why this house style turned out as it did and how it has
changed over its 300-year life span. 143 pictures, 16 pages in
color, and drawn plans show it in its various stages - from the
tiny half Cape of long ago to the modern house with wings that may
stretch to a total length of 100 feet and more. Stanley Schuler has
brought together the architectural history of the Cape Cod House to
be studied and enjoyed by all who live-in, restore, or want to
build their own Cape Cod House.
The doors are wide open and you're welcome to wander through. Don't
worry about the carpets as you enter through stately doorways, cozy
up to collosal fireplaces, and climb poetic staircases. For those
who love the old homes of the New England area, this is a chance to
enter and inspect the window sills and cupboards up close. Nearly
400 photographs and illustrations, along with helpful tips, are
provided to guide the remodeller of Jacobean, Colonial, Georgian,
and Federal homes toward duplicating these antique architectural
features, plus there are architectural drawings from the Library of
Congress and by Asher Benjamin, one of the leading New England
builders and most influential designers of the late eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries.
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