While oversized McMansions dominate tiny lots across the country, a much different trend is developing.
There are scrupulous homeowners who want to return to traditional architectural principles that venerate qualities that once were taken for granted in home design: structural common sense, aesthetics of form, appropriateness to a neighborhood, and even sustainability.
Marianne Cusato, the creator of the award-winning Katrina Cottages, has authored and illustrated this definitive guide to what makes houses look and feel right—to the eye and to the soul.
Integral to the book are its hundreds of elegant line drawings—clearly rendering the varieties of lintels and cornices, arches and eaves, and displaying “avoid” and “use” versions of the same elements side by side.
I will say that this book has been one of the most valuable resources for my design theory.
You should pick up the book at your local book store or one of the online shops.
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