Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid

Sick of McMansions? Marianne Cusato creator of the award-winning Katrina Cottages is a champion of traditional architectural principles: structural common sense aesthetics of form appropriateness to a neighborhood and sustainability. She presents the definitive guide to what makes houses look and feel right revealing the dos and don'ts of livable home design. Hundreds of elegant line drawings--rendering the varieties of architectural features and displaying “avoid” and “use” versions of the same elements side by side--make this an indispensable resource for designing and building a timelessly beautiful home. Paperback: 272 pagesPublisher: Sterling; Reprint edition (August 2 2011)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 1402791038ISBN-13: 978-1402791031 Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.8 x 11 inches Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds