From the founder of Rental Decorating Digest Tammy Jo Schoppet( http://www.RentalDecorating.com ), “A simple down to earth, crash course in interior design…” From a personal color scheme to working within the 3 Phases of Decorating, this do-it-yourself book is a “must read” for every first time renter! Perfect for both new and seasoned renters who are looking to create a temporary, stylish living space while staying within rental guidelines!
From Cape Cods, Tudors, and French Ramblers to cottages, ranch styles, farm houses, and more, this updated volume features plans of affordable and livable homes in virtually every style imaginable.
This simple and complete reference tool addresses the distinct differences and laws that apply to condominiums and cooperatives. Community versus individual property rights are covered, as well as property management laws, owner usage restrictions, maintenance responsibilities, and government forms and documents. Access this wealth of information without drowning in a sea of legal terms.
The Legal Almanac series serves to educate the general public on a variety of legal issues pertinent to everyday life and to keep readers informed of their rights and remedies under the law. Each volume in the series presents an explanation of a specific legal issue in simple, clearly written text, making the Almanac a concise and perfect desktop reference tool. All volumes provide state-by-state coverage. Selected state statutes are included, as are important case law and legislation, charts and tables for comparison.
The book presents ten apartment blocks and two student dormitories built by Aalto from the 1920s to the 1960s in Finland, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, and the USA. Among them are Baker House and the Institute of Technology, both in Massachusetts. This book contains not only a pictorial and technical record of Aalto’s housing designs, but also an extensive discussion of Aalto’s goals and ideals in creating dwelling places.
The Age of Technology is nowhere made more personal than at home. Modern convenience shapes our daily routine, making today’s American house a place of comfort, the like of which has never been known. Yet of all aspects of modern technology, it is the evolution of what is in the household that has
been least written about.
In The Comforts of Home, an unprecedented work written for a general audience with no particular knowledge of science or technology, social historian Merritt Ierley weaves in aspects of architecture, social history, and technology to present an underexplored but central feature of American cultural identity: how our lives are shaped by the domestic technology around us. Here we see a simple brick cubicle with a stove inside it evolve into central heating, a barrel with a large handle become the automatic washing machine, a box lined with charcoal birth the modern refrigerator, and the modern toilet develop from a rudimentary stone trough.
The Comforts of Home charts the evolution of mechanical systems–from central heating to lighting, from kitchen to bathroom, from washing machine to vacuum cleaner–on which we all depend and without which most of us could hardly imagine surviving. It is also the story of the people responsible for the revolution of convenience in the home: people like Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, a British Loyalist, inventor and spy who fled his home in the American colonies in 1776. His genius of invention returned in the form of inventions with practical impact on everyday life in the household. Or like architects Benjamin Latrobe and James Gallier, Jr., who defined the cutting edge of modern convenience for their times. The Comforts of Home is also the story of ordinary people like David and Ida Eisenhower, who provided their son Dwight and his brothers with a home that increased in comfort the way most American homes did–bit by bit, appliance by appliance, advance by advance–as new technology became cheaper and more widespread, and more a part of everyday life.
The story of the convenience of modern living is compellingly traced in this delightfully written book illustrated with nearly 200 photographs and vintage illustrations.
Front and back illustrations, c. 1892, show a Standard Gas Machine apparatus that was used for supplying one’s own home with illuminating gas in the age of gaslight (courtesy of Smithsonian Institution). Inset shows delivery of a 1960s automatic “Ice Maker” refrigerator (courtesy of Whirlpool Corporation).
From the Hardcover edition.
