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Room by Room: Designing Your Timber Frame Home
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Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
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This fabulous, step-by-step book is designed to walk you through the basic decisions that go into creating a custom-built home. Targeted toward timber frame design, the book is universal in its presentation of appealing barn style and country style homes. Any couple or family planning a custom designed home should start here. The book offers information about home essentials, such as windows, doors, and fireplaces, and illustrates the possibilities when it comes to the look and feel of a home and its living spaces. Pages and pages of photos offer gorgeous examples for couples making decisions on dimensions, configurations, and decor for everything from the powder rooms to the great room. Peruse dozens of kitchens for examples of cabinet and countertop colors, more than 30 images of fireplaces, and many more pictures of bedrooms, dining areas, loft spaces, home offices, formal living rooms, even recreational areas. Exterior shots help a homeowner choose the look that's right for them. Plus, twenty floor plans are presented to study, and there is advice for crafting your own living space.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 728.37
EAN: 9780764320064
ISBN: 0764320068
Label: Schiffer Publishing
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 112
Publication Date: 2004-05
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Studio: Schiffer Publishing
SIMILAR ITEMS:
• Timberframe Plan Book
• The Timber-Frame Home: Design Construction Finishing
• Artisan Crafted Timber Frame Homes
• The Timberframe Way: A lavishly illustrated guide to the most elegant way to build a home
• Timberframe: The Art and Craft of the Post-and-Beam Home
CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
interior design by numbers -
A good basic text on interior design and planning. Takes you on a step by step journey from concept to compleation.
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Mechanical Fasteners in a Timber Frame Home, Hmmmm -
This is my 5th book purchase on the subject of timber framing. Previous books I've read have included 'Building the Timber Frame House', 'The Timber Frame Home', 'The Timber Framing Book' and 'Build a Classic Timber-Framed House'.
In none of these books will you find 'concealed mechanical fasteners for strength'. They justify use of these fasteners because cutting mortises and tenons is a 'costly, time-consuming method of construction'.
Isn't a main point of building or buying a timber frame home to have a traditionally construced timber frame? Using concealed and exposed mechanical fasteners 'for strength' misses the entire point of traditional timber frame construction.
After reading this book, it's my belief that a Yankee Barn Home is not what I'd want a timber frame home to be. For the $140-$180 per square foot that they say it takes to build a home, I would want an authentic timber frame rather than this cheapening of the art form. It honestly strikes me as if your typical stud frame construction techniques were applied to timbers, and that's just plain poor quality in the world of timber frames.
To the book's credit, there are checklists to help you decide what kind of rooms and features you want. The pictures are excellent and depict the construction techniqes of Yankee Barn Homes if you should decide to use them to build your home.
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