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 | | Home Space Planning: A Guide for Architects, Designers, and Home Owners by Nancy Temple ISBN-10: 0070634998 ISBN-10: 0-07-063499-8 ISBN-13: 9780070634992 ISBN-13: 978-0-07-063499-2 Hardcover 1995-10-25 Mcgraw-Hill Find Lowest Price |
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Book Description Responding to the growing market in home improvement and home renovation, this practical reference provides easy access to cost-effective design solutions for typical design challenges. It's packed with illustrations, floor plans, and renderings that provide useful guidance at a glance. Organization by major housing design types such as colonial, Cape Code, split-level, and others also makes the source convenient to use. Plans showing the original designs with shaded overlays of new designs expedite understanding of how changes were made and shows architects better and more cost-effective ways to re-design typical residential layouts. In addition, readers get a clear picture of how a conventional kitchen, bathroom, or bedroom can be easily and quickly re-configured to add space or amenities. | ||
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How to fix a floorplan Home Space Planning is a collection of 20 problem floorplans, each with 2-20 modifications (in increasing complexity and difficulty) suggested by the architect. Though the book is 80% pictures, the short paragraphs describing the problems and solutions pictured quickly teach one the remodeler's art. You'll learn to quickly identify a problem kitchen or a noisy bedroom, and learn a variety of fixing tricks -- from rearranging cabinets to moving walls to adding a second floor. | ||