The New Cottage Home

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Summary: Incredibly good book.
Review: If only all builders were looking for their inspiration to this book, there would be so many more beautiful homes in the world today and much fewer McMansions with their lopsided facades and overlarge windows and big greedy ugliness. Every taste can be satisfied within these pages. It's a must.

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Summary: Interesting and stylish
Review: In planning our vacation home, we just bought two books. THE NEW COTTAGE HOME shows architecturally stylish homes, most of which are modest in size. It's a nice dream book but you can pick up lots of ideas for your own home within it. SECOND HOME is the other book we just bought. It has wonderful photography of second homes around the country but goes beyond that to include tips on deciding what location or home style is right for us, how to check out a neighborhood, and so forth. I've already learned (in the chapter on having a new second home built) that we can have our architect design a house and then save money by having a modular home company build it in a factory. Second Home is intriguing.

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Summary: Interesting and stylish
Review: In planning our vacation home, we just bought two books. THE NEW COTTAGE HOME shows architecturally stylish homes, most of which are modest in size. It's a nice dream book but you can pick up lots of ideas for your own home within it. SECOND HOME is the other book we just bought. It has wonderful photography of second homes around the country but goes beyond that to include tips on deciding what location or home style is right for us, how to check out a neighborhood, and so forth. I've already learned (in the chapter on having a new second home built) that we can have our architect design a house and then save money by having a modular home company build it in a factory. Second Home is intriguing.

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Summary: The New Cottage Home
Review: My husband and I (against the advisement of our families) are planning to build a very small home to start out and this book has helped us figure out some of the best ways to use our space. My Mom owns this book and she has a hard time letting it out of her sight so I have now ordered it for my own library. Love it, Love it, LOVE it!

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Summary: Amazing, innovative read!
Review: My husband and I (against the advisement of our families) are planning to build a very small home to start out and this book has helped us figure out some of the best ways to use our space. My Mom owns this book and she has a hard time letting it out of her sight so I have now ordered it for my own library. Love it, Love it, LOVE it!

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Summary: You'll be charmed by this well-photographed book.
Review: My husband and I will someday get out of the "rent-race", and I'm always on the lookout for inspiration for our future home. The second I spotted "New Cottage Home" on the store shelf, I realized the dwellings featured in the book are exactly the kind I have been attracted to all my life. I have always loved not very large, but quirky and simply stylish cottages. Having lived in England and Europe for a few years gave me an appreciation for these little jewels. Although most of the homes featured are modern, they still evoke a sense of comfort and uniqueness that truly charms the soul. Someday, when my husband and I are able to buy or build our own home, I will rely on the inspiration given to me by "New Cottage Home".

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Summary: You'll be charmed by this well-photographed book.
Review: My husband and I will someday get out of the "rent-race", and I'm always on the lookout for inspiration for our future home. The second I spotted "New Cottage Home" on the store shelf, I realized the dwellings featured in the book are exactly the kind I have been attracted to all my life. I have always loved not very large, but quirky and simply stylish cottages. Having lived in England and Europe for a few years gave me an appreciation for these little jewels. Although most of the homes featured are modern, they still evoke a sense of comfort and uniqueness that truly charms the soul. Someday, when my husband and I are able to buy or build our own home, I will rely on the inspiration given to me by "New Cottage Home".

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Summary: Cottage style with 20th century appreciation of space.
Review: New Cottage Home took me to some of the homes I knew I was always meant to live in. There's a wonderful section of the history of the cottage style, and what design details create that warm feeling when we see such a home. Modern cottages are meant to retain the structural and detail essentials of the older cottages but to allow more interior open space due to modern materials and construction methods. Most of the book is given over to examples, with the architects names and addresses listed (very useful!). Some of the examples did not stick to the "cottage essentials" in my mind, but the rest were so charming it made up for it. I hope more architects see this book and take up the challenge of designing the small, detail-oriented home that singles and empty nesters would be proud to live in. I'm already imagining my cottage garden.

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Summary: Get Cozy!
Review: This book hails a return to the smaller house. We have overlooked the value of coziness for too long.
Delightful! I must confess, my copy is quite dog-earred.

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Summary: The New Cottage Home
Review: This outstanding book offers a bounty of gorgeous four-color photos and descriptive "plank and nail" text explaining the design and construction of each cottage. I've referred to this book countless times while brainstorming my own cottage design. Each time I open the book, I find another detail that I hadn't seen previously. The New Cottage Home offers an elequent objection to the bland, overbuilt, pretentious developer homes that increasingly blight America's landscape.