Preserving Porches

By Renee Kahn

Identifies different porch styles, explains how to determine the original design of a porch, and provides step-by-step instructions for repair and maintenance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805012095
• ISBN13: 9780805012095
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Excellent details, a lot of fun to read, lots of pictures.

This book not only provides the nitty gritty of keeping the porch on an old house from falling apart, it gives the history of porches, details about the lifestyles lived on porches in the 19th and 20th centuries, and lots of photos of porches. Look here for the historically appropriate railings for an early Victorian porch, or the furniture to put on your turn-of the century porch. Amusing stories of the famous, views of hotels noted for their porches; serving tea on the porch - this book isn't just a how-to, it's a why-was-it and why-keep-it that will add to your knowlege of the history of houses.