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Title: More Space: An Inspiritual and Practical Guide to Adding More Space to Your Home by Fay Sweet ISBN: 0-8230-3139-X Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: More Fay Sweet
Comment: Fay Sweet has authored a lot of remarkable modern design books. More Space is no exception. She has found, and photographed, some of the most interesting home additions I've seen to date - all of them unique. I especially enjoyed the basement and attic additions/expansions. This is not a practical how-to guide, it's a book about what's new and innovative in home additions.
Rating: 1
Summary: Very Unhelpful
Comment: We are working on deciding how to add more space to our house. I thought this book was exactly what I wanted. It wasn't. It was not helpful at all. I rarely give poor ratings and I want to be very clear as to why I gave this book such a low rating.
There was very little thought put to providing a reader with the overall picture of the house both before and after the space was added and the impact the addition made upon the home. THis is a big issue when speaking of additions. I believe, you have to think of resale value, usability, melding the old with the new and so on. I believe this book did very little in terms of communicating any of this to the reader.
1- There were no floor plans or drawings to show the before and after of adding space to a home.
2- There were very few before and after photographs to show how adding space impacted a home. The photos that were included, and there were alot of photos, really didn't show how the space melded with the old. The other thing I noticed was that many of the photographs seemed to be taken at night so you could see the add on lit up, and although this was neat, I would want to see it during the day as well.
3- Everything was really about light and windows and was very 'out there' in my opinion. For example, there was an addition of a second story/loft over a kitchen and the floor? Glass so you could look right down to the kitchen through your glass floor. Very unrealistic if you think of cleaning and privacy at the very least. A lot of boxy, square add ons that had no meaning to the original house. A gorgeous brick home was topped with copper for example. It might have been award winning, and it might appeal to some, but I thought it was down right ugly.
In ending, I thought this book was not very helpful. I thought there were some interesting ideas, but not enough information to see how I might use these ideas with my own home. Also, it leaned heavily towards the 'outerspace, streamlined' type look with lots of glass and chrome. This did not appeal to me and would not appeal to those of us who want the more traditional look. There are other books out there about doing additions that are more useful. I would suggest that this book is for those people who like the artsy/space look with lots of glass and chrome and odd additions with no care to the original home.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book
Comment: I checked this book out of the library, and started flipping through the pages, and the author has some really interesting pictures of innovative ideas that transform small spaces.
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Title: Interior Details by Fay Sweet ISBN: 1564968030 Publisher: Rockport Publishers Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Additions: Design Ideas for Great American Houses by Fine Homebuilding, Kevin Ireton ISBN: 1561586552 Publisher: Taunton Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Planning Your Addition by RA Jerry Germer ISBN: 1880029995 Publisher: Creative Homeowner Press Pub. Date: 28 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: See-Through Houses: Inspirational Homes and Features in Glass by Catherine Slessor, James Morris ISBN: 1841720291 Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Small Urban Interiors : 500 Solutions for Living by Ana Cristina G. Canizares ISBN: 0789306670 Publisher: Universe Books Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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