Capes :design ideas for renovating, remodeling, and building new /Jane Gitlin.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Cape Cod houses.
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture, Domestic United States.
Architecture, Domestic.

Originator

Gitlin, Jane.

Contents

An American archetype. The cape makes a comeback ; Updating a classic cape ; A contemporary twist on tradition ; Moving toward the light ; The hallmarks of cape style ; Cape renaissance ; Choosing a strategy -- Modest remodels. Big plans for a small area ; Modernizing at the core ; Working with what you've got ; Modest isn't mundane ; Underfoot and overhead ; When dowdy won't do ; Room at the top ; Instant tradition ; Southern comfort ; Perfectly architectural -- Ambitious additions. A marriage of old and new ; Stretching out and up ; The morphed cape ; Opening up a cape to the outdoors ; From cape to colonial ; From cape to bungalow ; A spirited transformation ; Trial size to family size ; A cape compound ; A cape for generations ; Stone sprawler -- New homes from an old pattern. An architecture of substance ; Cape shape ; The benefit of a budget ; Little "a" architecture ; A cape with a twist ; A cape reborn ; To the edge and back -- New directions. In the image of cape ; Upside-down cape ; The essence of home -- Sources.

Publication

Newtown, CT : Taunton Press

Publisher Series

Updating classic America
Updating classic America.

Description

218 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Re-introduces readers to the classic Cape Cod home, featuring more than twenty case studies of updated houses.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-217) and index.
Gift of Diane Viera, 2019

ISBN

1561584363
9781561584369

Call Number

Stacks NA7205.G52 2003

Places

United States.

Variant Title

Design ideas for renovating, remodeling, and building new