The Distinctive Home

A renowned architect offers up fifty visions of the perfect home, each capturing the essential harmony among the four classic elements of design--site, floor plan, exterior elements, and interior details.

From beautiful Victorians to grand European manors, here are 200 plans that provide a variety of styles and designs for distinctive homes measuring from 3,400 to 7,700 square feet. Includes renderings, floor plans, order forms, and a full-color ideas section on designing and decorating.

An annual publication intended as a reference work for contractors, suppliers, architects, and homeowners, the 1929 Home Builders Catalog offered a beautifully illustrated look at a variety of homes. Painstakingly reproduced from a rare edition, this volume offers old-house restorers, preservationists, and lovers of 1920s architecture an authentic view of American homes of the era.

Hundreds of excellent photographs, drawings and floor plans depict landscaping, interior and exterior decor. Text includes a wealth of information on how a house is built, with expert advice on walls, floors, ceilings, windows, balconies, fireplaces, plumbing, decorative hardware, paints, even architects' fees. Special portfolio of 60 houses in varied styles.

Stunning full-colour photographs and engaging text show readers how to identify Ontario's many unique types of homes. Ontario has a rich history of architectural styles, and is home to some of the most stunning heritage houses in North America. In this book, author Robert Mikel profiles in depth every important house style the province has seen over the past three centuries -- from the grand elegance of the Italianate to the intimacy and coziness of the Ontario Cottage. Readers will see how each house style developed in Europe, came to Ontario, and the variations that are unique to the province. Both an attractive gift book and a solid reference, Ontario House Styles will appeal to those who live in Ontario's tens of thousands of heritage homes and to anyone interested in Ontario's colourful architectural history. Ontario House Styles includes ninety homes from: * Ancaster * Brockville * Cobourg * Cambridge * Dundas * Gananoque * Grafton * Grimsby * Hamilton * Kingston * London * Napanee * Niagara-on-the-Lake * Odessa * Paris * Picton * Port Hope * St. Mary's * Stoney Creek * Stratford * Toronto * Waterloo

"This book celebrates a special community and the creativity of the architects, homeowners and builders who appreciate excellent design. It features fifty-six distinctive homes all located on the shores of Geneva Lake, WI. It is lavishly illustrated with over 700 colored pictures of distinctive home exteriors and interiors in a wide diversity of architectural styles and periods. It is bountiful with remodeling, designing or purchasing ideas."--Cover p.4.