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Summary: Unlimitless Imagination!
Review: For anyone with space enough, but without the money to build on it, this book has so many answers. It has line drawings on almost every page and is pure delight to read and dream over.
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Summary: Unlimitless Imagination!
Review: For anyone with space enough, but without the money to build on it, this book has so many answers. It has line drawings on almost every page and is pure delight to read and dream over.
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Summary: Good ideas No Photos except Cover
Review: I don't get why you put a beautiful photo on the cover of your book and all 2nd rate hand drawn pictues inside. It's deceptive! Won't help you with Country Home ideas. Maybe good for a kids Fort or a Bowhunting stand...
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Not only interesting to read, but the drawings make the projects easy to follow while keeping the writing clear and concise without any extraneous information. This terrific book has inspired me to find the perfect piece of land to build my own little vacation getaway.
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Summary: The perfect builders' guide
Review: Straightforward instructions and beautiful, informative drawings will help you build dozens of great back-country shelters. Designs include sheds, arbors, lean-tos, huts, cabins, tree houses and even a design for a floating cabin.
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Summary: the one book to inspire you
Review: the drawings in this text are very detailed yet artful. the prose is kept simple without much extra unnecessary information. the authors leave ample room to improvise on your own, but you could certainly follow the instructions to the letter and finish up with just what is described. the designs in this book are so varied you will very likely find a structure that appeals to you. apart from the designs, the building techniques and materials described are so varied, that many can be interchanged for most of the structures described. i found myself flipping back and forth and was inspired to use elements of multiple designs in just one structure. a very well done and handsome book!
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Summary: the one book to inspire you
Review: the drawings in this text are very detailed yet artful. the prose is kept simple without much extra unnecessary information. the authors leave ample room to improvise on your own, but you could certainly follow the instructions to the letter and finish up with just what is described. the designs in this book are so varied you will very likely find a structure that appeals to you. apart from the designs, the building techniques and materials described are so varied, that many can be interchanged for most of the structures described. i found myself flipping back and forth and was inspired to use elements of multiple designs in just one structure. a very well done and handsome book!
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Summary: creative ideas, not for children
Review: These are true rustic retreats for adults. Just know this is not for children's tree houses or play houses. These are very rustic retreats, such as a lean-to to use as a nature retreat, or for the shack-like building the size of a garden shed for sleeping in as a weekend getaway,(sans electricity or toilets).The one I loved the most was a rustic arbor for grapevines that was basically 4 poles with a semi-roof--for the vines to grow up and over the top to form a roof. The idea of sitting under it with a table and relaxing outdoors was quite tempting. However, where I would get the rustic tree trunks to make this is beyond me (but it looked wonderful). There are no photographs. This is not a glitzy-beautiful tempting type of book. It is about the nuts and bolts of really building one of these structures. I suggest browsing this book first to see if there is a structure you are interested in. The plans are quite detailed and seem more than adequate to use as building plans.
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Summary: Rustric Retreats easy to build - creative ideas!
Review: This book was written for people like us who dream of having a place off in the woods, in a lake or a river, or even in their own backyard where they can get away from the fast pace of the city and enjoy nature. It begins with general info on how to build doors, hooks and windows using primarily hand on tools and goes on to describe how to build 21 different structures. One section in the book shows how to build primitive native shelters such as the wigwam, the tipi and the yurt while other sections describe how to build a retreat in your garden, on the water or even in a tree. We have included a wide range of structuresfrom a basic lean -to, to a log cabin and a "writer's retreat". This is a book, not just for dreamers, but for people who have the desire and the ability to build things for themselves. We hope it inspires you to build a place of your own. Use it as a blueprint or as a stepping stone towards designing and building your own unique structure.
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Summary: Good book - But no inspiring Photos within
Review: This is a good book overall and goes into enough detail. The drawing are all hand drawn and there are ZERO photo's of the different projects. This is disappointing as it is much easier to envision what the final cabin etc.. would look like if there were photos.
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