Book Description
A collection of gorgeous homes for those who dream of life on the water's edge.
-Open floor plans with expansive views!
-Enjoy the beauty of a home alongside a lake, river, or ocean in this exclusive collection of homes designed for waterfront living.
-Whether readers are planning to build a year-round home or join the growing vacation home market, this book will delight and inspire them.
-This title showcases home plans that feature open floor plans, ample master suites and great rooms, large windows to enjoy the view, and porches and decks that extend the living space and embrace the outdoors.
-With an enhanced editorial section and the latest trends in home design, this second edition improves upon the best-selling original.
Book Description
n Introducing a stunning collection of homes as magnificent as the vistas they showcase. n A 32-page full-color gallery section showcases the best of the best n Expansive windows, quaint porches and wide-open decks bring the outdoors in and allow these plans to take full advantage of their surroundings. n Painstakingly crafted by the top architects and residential designers in the nation. n Complete construction blueprints are available for every home in this collection.
Customer Reviews:
House on the River.......2007-06-27
This book was particularly helpful with orientations toward a particular view. We live on a river and are looking for ideas.
Give me a break.......2007-04-30
Not really homes with a view. Just run of the mill home plans. Save your money!
Disappointed.......2006-03-03
I was looking for house plans that had the major rooms on the front of the house overlooking a view. The title led me to believe I would find that type of home in this book. I did not. Also, most of the plans were very complicated with multiple roof angles and expensive building items.
Book Description
Beach houses are the ideal getaway homes, offering the peace and relaxation of living near water, the fun of hanging out on the beach, and the total change of environment from city life. Selected from the pages of Fine Homebuilding, this book provides inspiration for anyone dreaming of such a home, plus practical guidance for designing and building in this often-challenging environment. Chosen for their variety of styles and settings, these outstanding examples range from Northwest eclectic in Seattle to an elegant houseboat in Rhode Island, from the quintessential California beach house to an oceanfront classic in Nantucket, and from a kick-back Floridian cottage to a charming Canadian retreat. Throughout the book, photographs, floor plans, drawings, and expert building information give a full picture of the possibilities for at the beach.
Customer Reviews:
Good Idea.......2007-07-08
Good short book with a number of high quality photo's and good of ideas for renovating, or building from scratch.
Book Description
whatever your waterside wonderland-youre sure to find the perfect plan for it in Waterfront Homes. Featuring 200 designs from some of the best and most respected residential designers in the country, this book offers everything from simple cabins to luxurious waterfront estates. These homes allow you to enhance what many home owners believe are the most desirable sites in the country.
Customer Reviews:
Just a standard old house plan book.......2003-01-31
This is basically a collection of off the shelf house plans. I'd guarantee you that if you pick up another title by the same publisher, you'll find many of these plans repeated there. True, most do have a fair amount of glass on one side, making them suitable for catching views of why you built the house there. They have divided the plans in the categories like, lakefront, riverside, ocean, pier houses, and luxury. The houses listed in the lakefront and riverside chapters have nothing special about them to make them "lakefront" or "riverside". Some of the ocean houses do have more of either a Cape Cod or east coast feel, but not all. Obviously, the pier house are as advertised and the luxury are mostly just big.
If you're beginning your search and gathering starting points, this can be a good book. Quite honestly, you'll probably have better luck if you buy a plan book concentrating more on the features you want in a house not, as this book suggests the site of the house. If you want a one story home, buy plan books that say "ranch" or "one story" in the title, if you want a smaller or retirement home, look for "small" or "retirement" or "empty nester" in the title, if you want fewer but larger rooms, look for "open" in the title. After you've got a book with plans with features that fit your lifestyle, then look for plans with lots of windows to admire the view from. If you're looking for something a bit more unique, spend a little more and go with some of the hardback books on the market.
A good jumping off point.......2002-03-21
This book is my favorite of many home plan books. Lots of interesting design ideas. Though I believe any "canned" plan like the ones in this book needs to be adjusted to the site and to personal tastes by a architect or designer, this has a lot of choices and orientations. I have purchased one of the plans and have a permit to build. I own several ocean view lots and have targeted two other plans in the book that will suit the sites.
The plans are mostly by eastern builders if you buy the plans you will find that some of the specifics are foreign on the west coast.
Though one reviewer mentioned the plans were "cookie-cutter" I did not find them so. I have 6 other home plan books with plans that are much more similar to each other, and much less innovative.
One caveat for would be ocean builders is that in most coastal areas winds are fierce. Houses must be engineered to meet codes for hurricane force winds on both coasts. We had to have an engineer licensed in our state go over our plans and it was fairly expensive. Steel beams had to be added for reinforcement when the window to wall ratio was too low. It appears to me that the architects did their best to retain windows and views while making the houses buildable without spending a fortune, or having the owners replacing oversize windows when the seals break. This may be the reason that many of the plans do not seem overly "view" oriented, as one reviewer mentions.
Overall, I love this book. I lost my last copy and am buying it again. It's the only one I know of that has plans to suit my view lots.
What view?.......2001-06-09
I cannot imagine using these plans for a seaside house if you want to have a great view of the water. I didn't feel that these homes had specific construction geared to a waterfront home.
Same old listless architecture........2001-04-04
I couldn't find a single home plan I liked in this book. All the same old cookie-cutter, pre-fab looking designs that would appeal to people with a lot more money than taste.
A nice sample of waterfront houseplans.......2000-04-14
There are some exciting and distinguished house plans of all sizes in this book. The written features are succinct and describes characteristic features well. The plans are drawn fairly large and clear. The housplans themselves vary from vacation types of greater than 1200 square feet and more to luxurious residential homes abutting the lakeshore or river over 5,000 square feet. The plans have the front view drawings of the home. If you are looking for a home to build that is a vacation getaway in the Florida Keys or along the eastern intracoastal waterway, this may be your book to look through... its worth a glimpse at the very least!
Book Description
The lakeside home represents its owner's love for the outdoors and passion for life on the water. Houses by the lake are designed to maximize the flow of air, the use of sunlight, and the views of the landscape. These Great Lakes homes range in style from converted barns and Prairie Style houses to modernist inspired dwellings but each is always a reflection of the style, taste and interests of their owners. The houses featured here illustrate an experimentation with materials and an economy of design. Residences are designed to be practical-many can "close up" during adventures in the out-of-doors and travels-and they exhibit an open-minded style in which to live. Great Lakes houses are modern yet sufficiently warm and inviting to provide comfort for life here. Capturing the universal desire to live on the water, the book will speak to waterside homeowners everywhere, and especially to residents of the seven U.S. states and two Canadian provinces that border the Great Lakes. With more than 250 images, Lakeside Living is a book for all those who yearn for a life at the water's edge.
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How to find -- and finance -- the dream waterfront retreat
The demand for waterfront getaways has never been stronger. Whether as a first-time buyer or a long-time owner moving to a different stage of life,
The Cottage Ownership Guide will help readers make the most of their investment. It's packed with solid, easy-to-understand advice that will smooth the financial aspects of ownership -- from finding and buying the perfect cottage to selling it or handing it down to the next generation. Hundreds of expert tips (and cautions), sample documents, and comprehensive checklists will help minimize unhappy surprises and maximize enjoyment of the cottage.
Author Douglas Hunter has done the homework, identifying potential problems and offering tried-and-true solutions:
- How to choose the right lake or river
- Finding the perfect property to match lifestyle
- Acquiring the right real estate agent
- How to inspect a vacation property
- Cottage surveys
- Financing the purchase
- Co-ownership arrangements, including fractional ownership and time shares
- Strategies for minimizing taxation in the U.S. and Canada
- Trouble-free rentals
- Boosting market appeal when trading up or selling
- How to structure a cottage inheritance to reduce taxes -- and family disputes
- Retiring or relocating full time to the cottage.
Customer Reviews:
A 'must' for any homeowner who dreams of owning a cottage get-away........2007-02-08
If you've ever wanted to own a waterfront cottage, here's your chance to do it right, with The Cottage Ownership Guide: How to Buy, Sell, Rent, Share, Hand Down & Retire to Your Waterfront Getaway, a compendium of specific techniques for all phases of cottage ownership. The entire selection and purchase process is covered here, with plenty of case studies and checklists streamlining the process. A 'must' for any homeowner who dreams of owning a cottage get-away.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
Customer Reviews:
New Possibilities for Living.......2004-11-23
I have always wanted to live next to the water. I didn't really care whether I lived in a castle or a condo -- I just wanted the sound of the water to wake me in the water and soothe me at night, Rooney makes this all possible with this beautifully illustrated book (over 300 images) that's meant for visualizing a new life. She and all these gifted architects opened my mind to the possibilities available as we search for a change in the ways we live our lives.
Waterfront Homes.......2004-11-12
4 stars
Waterfront Homes is a great book to dream about new possibilities and new directions for life. The houses in it range from elaborate mansions to small cabins on a distant lake. This is the type of book you give to someone who is searching for his or her next dream. The architectural descriptions describe the intricacies and the excitement
of building your own waterfront home.
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