The Honest House: Presenting Examples of the Usual Problems Which Face the Home-Builder, Together With an Exposition of the Simple Architectural Principles Which Underlie Them (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Ruby Ross Goodnow

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331665493 ISBN 13 : 9781331665496

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Discover the practical ideas behind solid, attractive home design. This book presents common problems home-builders face and clear architectural principles that underlie them, with a focus on small houses and living with style.

In its friendly, practical voice, the guide helps you see how plans, scale, and materials come together. It offers concrete guidance on choosing roof shapes, balancing proportions, and creating spaces that feel true to life and time.

• How to evaluate roof styles (gables, gambrels, hips) and their visual impact


• Ways to harmonize color, materials, and furniture for a cohesive room


• Lessons on plan arrangement, proportion, and the role of the architect


• Tips for making small houses expressive of daily living without fuss

Ideal for readers of thoughtful home design and practical architecture guidance, this edition helps you build a home that feels American in spirit and true to your life.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Honest House: Presenting Examples of the Usual Problems Which Face the Home-Builder, Together With an Exposition of the Simple Architectural Principles Which Underlie Them

It is difficult indeed for us to create a house which is expressive of the owner, and at the same time consistent in all of its parts, true to a chosen style or character, and containing throughout the elements of good design, for the Sim ple reason that we are still young as a people, our social traditions are not so well established as to indicate clearly what is to be our future, and in consequence, what will be the character of the homes which will result.

In our larger houses we are very likely to draw our inspiration from widely separate and distant fields, and we bring into them the accumulated art of the centuries past, and of the whole world. So it is no wonder that in these hustling times, when our days are filled with a multitude of interests, that we sometimes feel that we are strangers in our own homes. Then too, a spirit of pride and emulation is often wrought into the building of our larger houses, and often this motive, working unconsciously in the minds of both the owner and the architect, acts as a Chinese Wall, separating us from our ideals and the things which we actually accomplish.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

To our friends, who have given us so freely of their encouragement and enthusiasm in the making of this book, we wish to give our thanks. We are especially indebted to Frederick L. A ckerman, Richard Derby, Thomas Robinson, Robert R. McG oodwin, and William Roger Greeley for their co-operation in the planning of the book; to A lice Boughton, Edmund B. Gilchrist, Lillian Baynes Griffin, andF rank Cousins for photographs; and to Frances Delehanty, Howard Greenley, John D. Moore, Franklin P. Hammond, Henry B. Guillan, Bernhardt E. Muller, Jules Gingras, Henry Henderson and Gerald Wright for many drawings and chapter headings. Ruby Ross Goodnow Rayne A dams.
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About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331665493
• ISBN 13: 9781331665496
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 221
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