Additions: Design Ideas for Great American Houses (Great Houses Series)

By Fine Homebuilding Magazine

Creative inspiration and expert advice for anyone considering a home remodel This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561586552
• ISBN13: 9781561586554
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Taunton Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.9" x 0.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Nice book, but not what I thought it would be

As a local builder/remodelor, I was looking for a book that would contain some great ideas for additions as well as some new helpful strategies or solutions to common problems that occur doing additions. This book fell short of my expectations. It focuses on a few addition projects and highlights the details of those additions. If the house(s) that you are working on is/are not one of the styles highlighted, there may not be much here for you. That said, there are some great ideas in these projects that are worth the price of the book, but be forwarned that you will not learn much, and that there are not pages and pages of different ideas.

The Art of the Seamless Addition

As the owner of a small architectural practice that does many additions, I see this book as an excellent (and very affordable) sourcebook for residential additions. This book brings together twenty-five projects that have been featured in Fine Homebuilding magazine over the past five years. The additions range in scale form major complete home makeovers to small additions/remodelings such as adding a portico to a Georgian Colonial home. The projects are classified in terms of "Adding Up, Adding on the Side, Adding On, and Adding Out. These projects are mostly what I term "Seamless" additions, meaning that the addition/makeover/remodeling is done in a manner to create a seamless (oftentimes altogether new) building. Most of the projects featured are architect designed and all display a fine level of craftsmanship and inginuity that one expects from Fine Homebuilding Magazine. It is interesting to compare this book with James Grayson Truelove's book "New American Additions and Remodelings". Truelove's book, which I also highly recommend, features more avante garde, object-like projects, many by noted young architects.This is a paperback book and the articles are have been very nicely repackaged. Whether you are an architect, contractor, or homeowner, I highly recommend this book.