Open Concept Houses: The Essential Guide to Home Design and Renovation with International Floorplans
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From the author of the successful 150 Best series comes the debut entry in the forward-thinking Open Concept Houses series, filled with nearly 500 pages of color photos—sure to become the ultimate resource for this fast-growing trend in home design and renovation. One of the hottest lifestyle trends today, open concept living spaces eliminate doorways and walls to create a large combined area for cooking, dining, entertaining, and relaxing. No longer are the kitchen, dining room, and living room compartmentalized. Instead, each space blends into the next to create one large area "separated" and defined by islands, carpets, and furniture. This increasingly popular style provides a sense of expansiveness, connectedness, and flow that traditional architecture and design—defined by spaces broken by walls—lack. This engaging, inspiring, and informative volume brings together a diverse collection of houses from all over the world, including spaces that have been designed from the ground up or have been renovated to reflect this popular trend. Inside Open Concept Houses you’ll find an array of beautiful and creative homes by distinguished international architects and designers who have conceived practical and functional solutions adapted to the specific needs and particular tastes of their clients. Filled with hundreds of full-color photographs as well as sets of floorplans for renovated residences—both the original and remodeled blueprints—this imaginative, idea-filled book is a must-have for architects, designers, decorators, and home owners looking to create or adapt the open concept style in their own dwellings. Review: Research makes a difference - Thinking about remodeling versus building new. This is a good resource guide Review: Nice book - I love it
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,861,409 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #96 in Interior Floor Design #202 in Interior Design Reference #299 in House & Hotel Photography |
| Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 83 Reviews |
K**T
Research makes a difference
Thinking about remodeling versus building new. This is a good resource guide
T**I
Nice book
I love it
A**R
Simple plans for smaller homes
I didn’t like as much as thought I would. Most plans too complicated
C**H
book contents
The book is much too open for the building of our home. We are not interested in such open plans. I would like to return it. It has barely been opened and looks as it did when delivered. It was our aside with Christmas. Please let me know of this is possible.
M**R
The variety is fantastic, and the simple approach to a sort of ...
I bought this book at a local book store while looking for specific examples of modern material choices in residential design. This book was just what needed. Each project features professional photographs and a floor plan (though I recall that perhaps a project or two did not, but I may be mistaken). The book allows you to view images of finished spaces and compare them directly to the homes' floor plans to understand the relationship between what is drawn and what is seen in perspective. The variety is fantastic, and the simple approach to a sort of middle-of-the-road modernism is very palatable.
D**M
Not what I expected
Lots of pictures, but not the detail I expected or wanted. Should send it back, but probably won't bother.
M**F
Not happy.
Ordered new & it is clearly warn or well used. Also...not that great a book. Disappointed.
T**K
Horrible. ~Tami Wagoner, McAlester, OK
Horrible. Not the information in it that was advertised. Disappointed. Returned immediately. ~Tami Wagoner, McAlester, OK
P**.
Very practical but inspiring approach to interior design, including floor plans
This has plenty of inspiring interior design photos but what makes it very different from the mass of books in this category is that it's laid out as a series of projects including the floor plans for each and descriptions of what they were seeking to achieve.
L**.
Good clear book with examples of open plan architecture
Large pictures and plenty of examples for open plan modifications to houses
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