The New Cottage Home: A Tour of Unique American Dwellings
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.62 (822 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1561582298 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 231 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-05-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Jim Tolpin has been a woodworker for more than 30 years and has written a dozen books on the subject, selling more than 750,000 copies. He teaches woodworking for a living at his school, The Port Townsend School of Woodworking.
Jim Tolpin celebrates the diversity and charm of 30 sample cottages, from a Pacific Northwest cottage modeled after a French hunting lodge to a "salvage yard vernacular cottage" built with junkyard materials.Each featured home reflects individual personality, priorities, and lifestyle. Whether by the water, on a mountain, or in a forest, field, or town, these homes emphasize quality of place over quantity of space.. The New Cottage Home taps into today's move toward lifestyle simplicity and the idea that living space should be rich in details, conservative of resources, and no larger than necessary
These are the new American cottages that embody the ancient storybook dream, and the kind of homes that many of us have always dreamed of living in." . In his own words, "These houses seem to call as much to the heart as to the head, enriching us more with the highs of nature than with the highs of technology. Tolpin does an excellent job of pulling together the elements of each that make it a cottage and make it appealing. The 30 cottage homes pictured, all recently built, have the slightly unfair advantage of almost magically beautiful locations, but each has a unique character and many cottage-style nooks and crannies: the converted island pump
A young couples hopes and dreams A Customer Browsing through a big name book store one day, I happened upon "The New Cottage Home". I'm not sure why I picked it up because having a home of our own is so far into the future for my husband and I, that I try not to tease myself and in turn not think about it. But I flipped through the book anyway and fell in love with it almost immediatly! We rushed home knowing that Amazon would be cheaper and ordered it that same day. I was amazed at all the tricky, unique architecture ideas and styles. It is filled with easy-to. I absolutely loved this book Lele I absolutely loved this book. We are fixing to build a home on the Lake and want a cottage style home that looks like it has always been there. I'm not talking about it looking old but something that looks like it belongs there with the tree's and water. My husband wants something much more modern so we are finding ways to meet in the middle with modern and still maintain the look I want. It's a struggle because the two are so totally opposite of one another but its doable. I may just have to stick him in a hotel some. Eye Candy -- and more -- for the home lover In homes, MacMansions are out and small is in. Behemoths plonked down onto bare ground are out, functional homes that "grew" onto their site are in.If you are thinking of a new home, this book is a fabulous dream book. It is NOT cutesy cottages, it is a book of lovely small homes. Whether you are thinking of mountains, or fields or seashore small homes, this book will tickle your imagination and drive your design. You will have everything you need, and because the homes are smaller, you will have money left over for e