Nice House

Author : Samuel G. White
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781580932875

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Nice House by Samuel G. White Pdf

“White's project descriptions are lucid, brief and hype-free, and they come stocked with floor plans. He describes terrain contours, materials and palette choices and circulation patterns…This is a practical yet mouthwatering and aspirational study of architects helping people honor the streetscape, keep properties saleable and upgrade their home life by several respectable notches.” -- Period Homes “What makes a house nice? Architect Samuel G. White tells us: Nice houses aren’t too big or too formal. They are neighborly, with harmonious proportions. They have inviting spots in which to read a book, take a nap or cook..” --New York Newsday This is a book of houses where we all would like to live. The locations are diverse—New England, Long Island, Pennsylvania, California—and the architecture encompasses both traditional and contemporary vocabulary. What links them is their livable scale and the architect’s commitment to creating congenial spaces with a handsome and functional design. They are unassuming dwellings whose architecture moves easily to the background, supporting comfortable furniture, works of art from a variety of periods and styles, and the plantings and outdoor spaces that are essential to the composition. These houses display grace and style inside and out. They invite a full range of activities from formal to informal, from celebration to repose, from a solitary existence to a house full of children or guests. These houses have good places to read a book or write a letter, to take a nap, and to cook and eat with family and friends.

Author : Michael Maines,Daniel Kolbert,Emily Mottram,Christopher Briley
Publisher : Taunton Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1641551658

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Pretty Good House by Michael Maines,Daniel Kolbert,Emily Mottram,Christopher Briley Pdf

Pretty Good House provides a framework and set of guidelines for building or renovating a high-performance home that focus on its inhabitants and the environment--but keeps in mind that few people have pockets deep enough to achieve a "perfect" solution. The essential idea is for homeowners to work within their financial and practical constraints both to meet their own needs and do as much for the planet as possible. A Pretty Good House is: * A house that's as small as possible * Simple and durable, but also well designed * Insulated and air-sealed * Above all, it is affordable, healthy, responsible, and resilient.

Author : Ann Leary
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250022257

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The Good House by Ann Leary Pdf

The Good House, by Ann Leary, is funny, poignant, and terrifying. A classic New England tale that lays bare the secrets of one little town, this spirited novel will stay with you long after the story has ended. Now a major motion picture starring Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline! Hildy Good is a townie. A lifelong resident of a small community on the rocky coast of Boston's North Shore, she knows pretty much everything about everyone. And she's good at lots of things, too. A successful real-estate broker, mother, and grandmother, her days are full. But her nights have become lonely ever since her daughters, convinced their mother was drinking too much, sent her off to rehab. Now she's in recovery—more or less. Alone and feeling unjustly persecuted, Hildy finds a friend in Rebecca McAllister, one of the town's wealthy newcomers. Rebecca is grateful for the friendship and Hildy feels like a person of the world again, as she and Rebecca escape their worries with some harmless gossip and a bottle of wine by the fire—just one of their secrets. But Rebecca is herself the subject of town gossip. When Frank Getchell, an old friend who shares a complicated history with Hildy, tries to warn her away from Rebecca, Hildy attempts to protect her friend from a potential scandal. Soon, however, Hildy is busy trying to protect her own reputation. When a cluster of secrets becomes dangerously entwined, the reckless behavior of one person threatens to expose the other, and this darkly comic novel takes a chilling turn.

Author : Witold Rybczynski
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architects--Homes and haunts
ISBN : 061318131X

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The Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski Pdf

A book about architecture: what architects do, how they get it right, what an architectural genius can see, and what distinguishes architecture from other arts. Illustrated.

Author : Tananarive Due
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : African American women
ISBN : 9780743296168

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The Good House by Tananarive Due Pdf

Award-winning author Due's spine tingling tale of supernatural suspense "weaves a stronger net than ever" (Kirkus Reviews") as a woman searches for the inherited power that can save her hometown from the forces of evil.

Author : Bonnie Burnard
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781554688517

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A Good House by Bonnie Burnard Pdf

Bill Chambers has come home from the second World War with several fingers of his right hand missing but with his will to restore his family life intact. He wants the best for his wife, Sylvia, and his children, Patrick, Paul and Daphne, and with his steady job at the hardware store, the future stretches out before him. So opens Bonnie Burnard’s brilliant, superbly crafted novel about three generations of an ordinary small-town family from the 1950s to the 1990s. As the family members spread out from their community into the larger world, the bonds deepen, widen and sometimes fray. Loyalties are tested by time and chance, people resort to necessary, self-preserving lies, and love creates its own snares.

Author : James Tynion IV
Publisher : DC Black Label
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:T2052300015001

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The Nice House on the Lake (2021-) #1 by James Tynion IV Pdf

Everyone who was invited to the house knows Walter-well, they know him a little, anyway. Some met him in childhood; some met him months ago. And Walter’s always been a little…off. But after the hardest year of their lives, nobody was going to turn down Walter’s invitation to an astonishingly beautiful house in the woods, overlooking an enormous sylvan lake. It’s beautiful, it’s opulent, it’s private-so a week of putting up with Walter’s weird little schemes and nicknames in exchange for the vacation of a lifetime? Why not? All of them were at that moment in their lives when they could feel themselves pulling away from their other friends; wouldn’t a chance to reconnect be…nice? With Something Is Killing The Children and The Department of Truth, James Tynion IV has changed the face of horror in modern comics - now get ready for his most ambitious story yet, alongside his Detective Comics partner Álvaro Martínez Bueno!

Author : Sherry Petersik,John Petersik
Publisher : Artisan
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781579656768

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Young House Love by Sherry Petersik,John Petersik Pdf

This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.

Author : James Tynion IV
Publisher : DC Black Label
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:T2052300055001

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The Nice House on the Lake (2021-) #5 by James Tynion IV Pdf

Veronica, the Scientist, has one of the longest-standing connections to Walter among anyone in the House…and through her work with NASA, she may have insight into who he really is. But what she sees in the stars above the House may upend everything she thought she knew!

Author : James Tynion IV
Publisher : DC Black Label
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : PKEY:T2052300065001

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The Nice House on the Lake (2021-) #6 by James Tynion IV Pdf

The House has an eleventh guest. Reg is here-and that was never part of the plan. Or was it? Everything you know gets turned upside down in this issue…ending on a cliffhanger that will have to hold you until the House reopens in March 2022!

Author : William Channing Gannett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Arts and crafts movement
ISBN : HARVARD:RSLEAU

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The House Beautiful by William Channing Gannett Pdf

Author : Alan Broadbent,Ratna Omidvar
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781770563032

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Five Good Ideas by Alan Broadbent,Ratna Omidvar Pdf

Non-profits are big business. As the sector expands to embrace new issues, there is increased pressure for accountability, relevancy, and efficiency. Practitioners are expected to be experts in a variety of fields. In Five Good Ideas, forty professionals from successful non-profits large and small offer information, strategies for action, and management solutions that are easy to implement and will improve how organizations function. Alan Broadbent is the chair of Avana Capital, Tides Canada Foundation, and Maytree, and is the author of Urban Nation. Ratna Omidvar is the president of Maytree and is The Globe and Mail's 2010 Nation Builder of the Decade for Citizenship.

Author : Tananarive Due
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : African American women
ISBN : 9780743449007

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The Good House by Tananarive Due Pdf

From the award-winning author of "The Black Rose" comes a terrifying story of supernatural suspense, as a woman searches for the inherited power that can save her hometown from evil forces.

Author : Sophie Donelson
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781683351276

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House Beautiful Style Secrets by Sophie Donelson Pdf

From the country’s most popular interior design magazine comes a stylish, in-depth look at what it takes to make any room beautiful. House Beautiful Style Essentials: What Every Room Needs is an inspiring and hardworking handbook that shows readers how to create the rooms of their dreams by revealing what “every room needs.” Chapters like “Every Room Needs a Hiding Place” provide clever ideas for storage and organization, while sections like “Every Room Needs Something Shiny” give examples of how reflective surfaces can enhance and enlarge any space. Simple yet elegant advice from some of the biggest names in the interiors world is paired throughout with stunning photography of the best and most beautiful rooms featured in the magazine. From a room’s overall look and color down to its smallest details, House Beautiful Style Secrets provides tips, tricks, and secrets on how to cultivate a comfortable home and uncover the potential of every living space.

Author : Max Jacobson,Murray Silverstein,Barbara Winslow
Publisher : Taunton
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0942391055

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The Good House by Max Jacobson,Murray Silverstein,Barbara Winslow Pdf

In everyday language the authors explain their theory: how strong contrasts open spaces combined with closed spaces, darkness with light, simplicity with complexity - can be orchestrated to produce harmony in a living environment. With the help of drawings and photographs of successful house interiors, the authors show you how to evaluate the architecture of your home by analysing significant houses of other architects. In great detail they provide examples of how they apply the theory of contrast in the houses they design.