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DESCRIPTIONFor anyone interested in learning about or creating an authentic Colonial-style home, home-design and -construction expert and frequent Bob Vila collaborator Hugh Howard provides a tour of selected Colonial Williamsburg classic homes. Each house is presented in no fewer than five new color photographs and an easy-to-read floor plan, revealing all the characteristic architectural detail work that defines Colonial-style dream homes such as Wyeth House and Peyton-Randolph House, along with the more modestly sized, but equally charming, Tayloe House and Lightfoot House. The book not only showcases each house's many attributes, but also tells the story of each selected house's renovation to its original splendor. To ensure the book's accessibility to a wide readership, a glossary of all the basic building terminology the homeowner should know is included. Colonial Houses looks at both houses that are open to visitors of Colonial Williamsburg, as well as several rarely shown private homes. All of these houses are original eighteenth-century structures--the oldest, Nelson-Galt House, was built in 1695; at the opposite end of the time line, St. George Tucker completed the transformation of his house a century later--each of which has been extensively studied and restored. The book summarizes decades of research and restoration lessons of each selected house, resulting in a book that is informative but also easy to peruse.
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For anyone interested in learning about or creating an authentic Colonial-style home, Bob Vila collaborator Hugh Howard provides a tour of selected Colonial Williamsburg classic homes. Floor plans & full-color photos.
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For anyone who has dreamed of living in a Colonial-style home, this showcase of Colonial Williamsburg standouts is an irresistible wish book. And for the home design do-it-yourselfer, it is even more than that. Domestic design and construction expert and award-winning historic preservation writer Hugh Howard provides a tour of favorite Colonial Williamsburg restorations that will fast become a primary resource of ideas and no-nonsense information.
This magnificent treasury presents each house in beautiful new color photographs and an easy-to-read floor plan, revealing all the characteristic architectural details that define the Williamsburg style. Relating the stories of the restoration projects that gave these structures new life, this book covers large and elegant dream houses along with equally charming smaller houses, including those that are open to visitors as well as rarely shown private examples. "Colonial Houses will have enormous appeal for the 800,000 guests who flock to Colonial Williamsburg each year, and for all those who simply love its aesthetic.