The Art of Home Conversion: Transforming Uncommon Properties into Stylish Homes - Softcover

Mack, Lorrie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184188023X ISBN 13: 9781841880235

Publisher: Seven Dials, 2000

Synopsis

Almost any space from haylofts to water towers can make a stylish house--and creative, resourceful buyers are ready to step up and meet the challenge of renovating these structures. Here's welcome help for those facing this task--which includes problems that range from meeting building regulations to installing electricity and plumbing. Among the spectacularly transformed buildings are a stable, Georgian coach house, crude fisherman's shack, ballet studio, army garage, Methodist chapel, stone barn, and Dutch barge.

About this title

From Library Journal

For many years, lofts and warehouses have been converted into dwellings, particularly by artists looking for large, inexpensive living spaces. Mack shows how this trend has been extended to 25 unlikely buildings, such as a hayloft, water tower, and army garages, with text describing design problems and solutions and photographs for the finished product. Each of these buildings has been so expertly transformed it's a pity no "before" pictures have been included, since it seems improbable that any of them could have been designed for anything other than habitation. Interior designers and students will find plenty of ideas for making any building comfortably livable.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Seven Dials
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 184188023X
• ISBN 13: 9781841880235
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160