The New Cottage Home: A Tour of Unique American Dwellings
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.28 (914 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1561583553 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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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-understand lan. 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 somewhere while I g. Amazing, innovative read! My husband and I (against the advisement of our families) are planning to build a very small home to start out and this book has helped us figure out some of the best ways to use our space. My Mom owns this book and she has a hard time letting it out of her sight so I have now ordered it for my own library. Love it, Love it, LOVE it!
Whether by the water, on a mountain, or in a forest, field, or town, these homes emphasize quality of place over quantity of space.. 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. 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. 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 house with sod roof, the 600-square-foot woodland temple, the salvage-built house on the Kansas prairie, the off-the-grid shingled hilltop house built to take advantage of natural light. Jim Tolpin's The New Cottage Home represents a return to a previous school of thought about living space: that it should be no larger than is needed, conservative of resources, rich in detail-- in short, that it should pay homage to hon
He teaches woodworking for a living at his school, The Port Townsend School of Woodworking.. 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