The House, a Manual of Rural Architecture, or How to Build Country Houses and Out-Buildings (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda
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Practical guidance for planning and building country houses and out-buildings This book translates centuries of architectural ideas into a usable, affordable guide for homeowners and builders. It explains the core principles of design, site choice, and how form expresses purpose, style, and local character. It also offers real-world plans, materials guidance, and notes on cost to help you turn a concept into a solid, livable home.
From the origins of the house to modern two-story designs, you will find a clear path from idea to finished building. The guidance covers layout, circulation, and room relationships, with attention to comfort, health, and convenience. It presents example plans, variations, and practical tips to adapt a design to your site and budget. The book also looks at farm houses, villas, and out-buildings to support a complete country estate.
- See floor plans and elevations for different house styles, including two-story and unique shapes.
- Learn how to match style to climate, purpose, and family needs while keeping costs in check.
- Find guidance on site selection, room arrangement, and efficient labor-saving layouts.
- Explore out-buildings, farmhouses, and utility spaces designed for practical rural life.
Ideal for readers planning a country home, a farm building, or a thoughtful renovation, this edition aims to be a dependable, affordable reference for lasting results.
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The plan and execution of our work will speak for themselves We are fully aware of its imperfections, but hope a generous pub lic will not allow them to blind their eyes to the merits which it will, we trust, be acknowledged to possess. We leave it, with full confidence, in their hands.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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In this country everybody builds a house-perhaps several of them. Everybody, then, should know something about domestic architecture, in order to build to the best advantage-to secure the largest amount of convenience, comfort, and beauty in his dwelling which his means and materials will permit. It has been our object, in the preparation of this manual, to promote the diffusion of this needed knowledge among the people.
The works of the lamented Downing, with all their acknowledged imperfections, have done much to enlighten the understandings and improve the tastes of our people on this subject. Much of the improvement which has taken place in the rural architecture of this country, within the last fifteen years, is due to their influence. But their size and cost have been a bar to their circulation, and confined their direct action upon the public mind within a comparatively narrow circle. The same remark will apply with more or less force to the excellent works of Calvert Vaux, Wheeler, Cleveland and Backus Brothers, and other recent architectural writers.
We have aimed here at a wider, if not a stronger, influence. We have condensed into this little volume all that the great majority of readers will t.are to find in it, and all that they are prepared to appreciate and profit by; and have placed the whole within the reach of every man in America who will ever have occasion to erect a house, a barn, a stable, or a piggery, by placing it at a price which no one will be too poor to pay. We aim, by these means, at a universal circulation and almost unlimited usefulness.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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