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Home by Design: Transforming Your House into Home

Home by Design: Transforming Your House into Home

by SarahSusanka (Author)

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    Illustrated 2004

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Synopsis

In this groundbreaking book, Sarah Susanka looks at the key design concepts behind all well-designed homes. With these essential ideas, she allows all homeowners to transform a house from mere shelter into a comfortable home filled with character and beauty. The author presents 27 key concepts that can be applied to any home - no matter what the style or size. Using 30 best-designed ideal homes, she brings these concepts to life with 150 specific and inspirational examples - from something as simple as placing a rug under a table to defining one room from another with a framed archway or opening. - Space - Entrances - Sequences - Ceiling Heights - Interior Views - Layering - Changes in Level - Public to Private - Enclosure - Light - Reflecting Surfaces - Window Positioning - Views - Order - Pattern - Alignments - Points of Focus - Expressed Structure -

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 250
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: Taunton Press Inc
Published: 05 Aug 2004
ISBN 10: 1561586188
ISBN 13: 9781561586189

Media Reviews
Think a bigger house would make everything perfect? Don't bet on it. Sarah Susanka's re-arranging and re-imagining strategies are brilliant, simple and beautiful (Reader's Digest)
Author Bio
Sarah Susanka is one of the leading residential architects in the United States. Her first book, The Not So Big House, topped best-seller charts in Home & Garden categories in its first year of publication. Susanka has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, the Charlie Rose Show, and NPR's Diane Rehm Show. She is a former principal and founding partner of Mulfinger, Susanka, Mahady & Partners, Inc., the firm chosen by LIFE magazine to design its 1999 Dream House. Crawford is a photographer whose work has appeared in every major national and international architecture magazine as well as in several books on architecture and design.