house & garden details

A HOUSE BUILT OF related components speaks eloquently. When you understand the architectural style, whatever you add will look “as though it’s always been there.”

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Happily, many traditional building elements, from windows and mantels to carriage doors, are being made today.

Find here, too, elements for landscape and garden, from trellises to urns, pavers to glass houses, all of which round out the beautiful impression.

Mechanical systems don't generally fall within the scope of a design book. Some innovations, though, offer practical or aesthetic advantages peculiar to old houses, so the editors describe them here: heating and cooling retrofits, efficient fireplace inserts, and so on.

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