Home Space Planning: A Guide for Architects, Designers, and Home Owners

By Nancy Temple

Book Overview

Through the use of "before" and "after" plans, this text offers the architect and the client a more cost-effective way of re-designing a typical residential layout. Each floor plan shows the original... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070634998
• ISBN13: 9780070634992
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 1.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

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.