Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes Author: Visit Amazon's George Nash Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1561585351 | Format: EPUB
Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes Description
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""Plain talk for restorers, from soup to nuts (and bolts). Here's thorough, practical advice that's sensitive to both history and budget.""
About the Author
Nash is a renovation contractor and fencebuilding enthusiast.
- Paperback: 410 pages
- Publisher: Taunton Press; 1St Edition edition (December 1, 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1561585351
- ISBN-13: 978-1561585359
- Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 9.3 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I got this on a recommendation from somebody who does work on interior walls of houses when I asked for an information source for stripping old wall paper and rerairing lathe and plaster walls. If you've ever looked at 'how to' books on home repairs or re-models, you doubtless have found them either overly technical, unrealistically involved, unreadably boring or way off-topic. If you own an old house and would like to do repairs on it but don't know where to begin or what to do, this is a great reference for pointing you in the right direction and getting you started on your project. The really cool thing about this book is that the author has a knack for explaining things succinctly yet simply and then illustrating what he means with excellent photographs in a way that causes one to realize right away whether the project one proposes to do is realistically undertaken or better left to experts. You can't imagine the disappointment one feels when one has begun a project that some flimsy how-to book (perhaps written to sell product) has promised to guide one through, only to discover too late that the problems covered are not at all the same ones being encountered. Usually this occurs because the authors presuppose that they are dealing with an audience trying to fix their mid-60's home, mid-1960's that is, and not something about twice as old. The the beauty of this book is that nearly every problem and project discussed is going to have you saying, "Wow, I've got that problem," or "Man, I wish somebody had shown me that before," or "What an excellent, elegant solution." Most of the other books I've consulted had me instead running off to a hardware store or a contractor to get the problem 'fixed' by simply getting rid of it and replacing it with something 'NEW.
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