Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid

About this book

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 donts 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.