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Title: The Distinctive Home: A Vision of Timeless Design by Jeremiah Eck ISBN: 1-56158-528-9 Publisher: Taunton Press Pub. Date: February, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent
Comment: I really enjoyed looking at the pictures and picturing in my head what those ideas could look like in my area.
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful !
Comment: Another high-quality, gorgeous book from Taunton Press, a company that I remember from its inception when I lived in Newtown, Connecticut!
This book is full of countless beautiful color photos and drawings that add immensely to the author's viewpoints and to his descriptions of the components of a distinctive home.
Eck discusses every aspect of a home: siting the house; the roof; the landscaping, and everything in between. He overlooks no detail that will aid homeowners in deriving a sense of satisfaction from their homes. The homes he describes are livable and comfortable.
I especially liked reading Eck's four elements of a "pleasing" house and the significance and importance he attaches to each element.
Rating: 5
Summary: Don't buy it if you suffer from serious house-envy...
Comment: ...if you are the sort of person who dreams of building your perfect house some day, this book will give you conniption fits, and leave you absent-mindedly drawing little floor plans on napkins in restaurants.
Eck's framework for the book cites four sources of great design: siting the house on the property, floor plans, exterior (elevation) and final details. This makes the book more balanced than those that just focus on, say, the floor plan and finish.
I found his discussion of the 'massing' of the house to be fascinating. It went a long way towards explaining why the too-large floor plans of the usual suburban house today--although in many cases just traditional layouts blown up by 50%--just don't look quite right.
That said, the book is predominantly oriented towards relatively empty-nester second homes in relatively rural locations. With some pleasant exceptions, these are not houses for people who have to, say , wonder where to store the dirty soccer equipment or the snow blower, or where their kids model collection is going to go.
They ARE beautiful, though - I swear that some day I'm going live on p.l07!!
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Title: Patterns of Home: The Ten Essentials of Enduring Design by Max Jacobson, Murray Silverstein, Barbara Winslow ISBN: 1561585335 Publisher: Taunton Press Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Creating a New Old House: Yesterday's Character for Today's Home by Russell Versaci, Erik Kvalsvik ISBN: 1561586153 Publisher: Taunton Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Good House Parts: Creating a Great Home Piece by Piece by Dennis Wedlick ISBN: 1561586285 Publisher: Taunton Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Good Home: Interiors and Exteriors by Dennis Wedlick, Philip Langdon ISBN: 0823020967 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: A House on the Water: Inspiration for Living at the Water's Edge by Robert Knight, Randy O'Rourke ISBN: 1561586072 Publisher: Taunton Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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