Coventry Pool & Garden House Plans: Plus English Summerhouses

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Summary: An impressive compendium of designs
Review: Coventry Pool And Garden House Plans is an impressive compendium of designs for fifty pool houses, eight garden houses, and five English summer houses. Each architectural model includes a large architectural rendering showing exterior treatment, a detailed floor plan, a chart of amenities and overall sizes, a descriptive text denoting highlights of the design and appointments, and information for ordering building plans. Developed by professional and accomplished architects, these models are designed to fit every property and budget, allowing homeowners to indulge their leisure-living aspirations. With its browser friendly text and easy-to-use order forms, Coventry Pool And Garden House Plans is a very highly recommended and exemplary resource for homeowners, architects, and landscape designers.

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Summary: Nice book
Review: I was looking for design ideas/plans. This one has nice ideas but it is a book in which you can then proceed to order plans. Not what I was looking for. I was looking for ideas, measurements, planning etc..that sort of thing. If that is what you are looking for this book would not be the right fit for you.

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Summary: Nice book, questionable designs
Review: I will be returning this book. As a licensed professional landscape architect, I find the proportions and design qualities lacking in most of the proposed designs. The designs depict what I would expect to buy from a mass merchandising home center, not such a highly acclaimed book. I was very disappointed. Content aside, the book was nice. I believe actual photographs might have helped tremendously.

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Summary: Dissapointed
Review: The book is nice but didn't have what we needed. We are looking for a plan for a corner pool house big enough to accomodate a billiard table and there is nothing like that in the book. Also, the exteriors are mostly too contemporary, nothing that would blend with our brick Georgian home. In a word, DISSAPOINTED. Had I seen the book at a bookstore, I would not have bought it.

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Summary: pool houses galore
Review: This book had it all. A complete array of pool house or cabana designs including several garden house plans. I believe the catalog has more than fifty different plans that can be adapted to almost any property. Included were plans with extra storage for all the pool supplies that every pool owner surely has, plus many designs included changing rooms, bathrooms, even kitchenettes. To my knollege this is the only book on the market with more than a few building types that resemble pool houses. I thought I'd have to go to an architect, then I discovered the coventry book at Amazon.com. Very valueable tool for anyone thinking of a pool.