Creating a New Old House

Creating a New Old House
Author: Russell Versaci
Publisher: Taunton Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781561587926

Through hundreds of inspiring photos and engaging text, the author describes what gives traditional homes their enduring appeal, and illustrates the creative work of builders who are forging the movement toward building new homes that capture old-home sensibility.

The New Old House

The New Old House
Author: Marc Kristal
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-03-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781419724046

The New Old House presents 18 private historic homes, from North America to Europe, and traces the ingenious ways architects have revitalized and refreshed them for a new generation. Most of the renovations occurred in the last decade, but all of the homes have origins reaching back into the past, in some cases hundreds of years. Projects and firms featured include Greenwich House, Allan Greenberg; Longbranch, Jim Olson; Astley Castle, Witherford Watson Mann; Hunsett Mill, Acme; Cotswolds House, Richard Found; plus more than a dozen others. These projects address such timely factors as sustainability, multiculturalism, preservation, and style, and demonstrate the unique beauty and elegance that comes from the interweaving of modernity and history.

Martha Stewart's New Old House

Martha Stewart's New Old House
Author: Martha Stewart
Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1992
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

Martha Stewart guides homeowners step-by-step through every phase of the biggest, costliest, most demanding project many people will ever undertake--the renovation of an entire house. This is a virtual encyclopedia of essential information delivered with Martha Stewart's personal flair.Full-color photographs.

New Rooms for Old Houses

New Rooms for Old Houses
Author: Frank Shirley
Publisher: Taunton Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2007
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1561588857

Provides advice for adding additions to older homes, considering balance, transition, public versus private space, and materials; and including photographs, floor plans, and illustrations.

Old House, New House

Old House, New House
Author: Michael Gaughenbaugh
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 56
Release: 1993-11-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780471144083

A fictional youngster takes the reader on a voyage of discovery as his family moves into a run-down Victorian house and he learns all about restoring houses and how home styles have developed over the past 400 years in America. Lavish illustrations help to tell this fascinating tale. An aunt's townhouse in Chicago and the homes of cousins in the south and in the country are some of the other architectural journeys in this book, which introduces children to a whole new vocabulary and way of looking at architecture in houses.

This Old House

This Old House
Author: Bob Vila
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1980
Genre: Architecture, Domestic
ISBN: 9780316177047

Restoring, Rehabilitating and renovating older homes.

Bob Vila's This Old House

Bob Vila's This Old House
Author: Bob Vila
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1981
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780525476702

This practical manual on residential renovation chronicles the conversion of a late-nineteenth-century summer house into five, well-appointed condominiums

Good Clean Fun

Good Clean Fun
Author: Nick Offerman
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2016-10-18
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1101984651

After two New York Times bestsellers, Nick Offerman—woodworker, actor, comedian, and co-host of NBC’s crafting competition series Making It—returns with the subject for which he’s known best—his incredible real-life woodshop. Nestled among the glitz and glitter of Tinseltown is a testament to American elbow grease and an honest-to-god hard day’s work: Offerman Woodshop. Captained by hirsute woodworker, actor, comedian, and writer Nick Offerman, the shop produces not only fine handcrafted furniture, but also fun stuff—kazoos, baseball bats, ukuleles, mustache combs, even cedar-strip canoes. Now Nick and his ragtag crew of champions want to share their experience of working at the Woodshop, tell you all about their passion for the discipline of woodworking, and teach you how to make a handful of their most popular projects along the way. This book takes readers behind the scenes of the woodshop, both inspiring and teaching them to make their own projects and besotting them with the infectious spirit behind the shop and its complement of dusty wood-elves. In these pages you will find a variety of projects for every skill level, with personal, easy-to-follow instructions by the OWS woodworkers themselves; and, what’s more, this tutelage is augmented by mouth-watering color photos (Nick calls it "wood porn"). You will also find writings by Nick, offering recipes for both comestibles and mirth, humorous essays, odes to his own woodworking heroes, insights into the ethos of woodworking in modern America, and other assorted tomfoolery. Whether you’ve been working in your own shop for years, or if holding this stack of compressed wood pulp is as close as you’ve ever come to milling lumber, or even if you just love Nick Offerman’s brand of bucolic yet worldly wisdom, you’ll find Good Clean Fun full of useful, illuminating, and entertaining information.

The Old House

The Old House
Author: Pamela Duncan Edwards
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

An old empty house feels sorry for itself because it has no family living inside, but with the help of some good friends, its dreams come true.

Roots of Home

Roots of Home
Author: Russell Versaci
Publisher: Taunton Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture, Domestic
ISBN: 1561588679

Traces the evolution of modern-day traditional-inspired homes from the earliest colonial period, showcasing classic homes designed in such styles as New England Colonial, Pennsylvania Dutch, French Creole, and Spanish Mission, in more than three hundred full-color photographs and drawings.