The best homes from This old house / Kevin O'Connor ; photographs by Michael Casey.
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TextPublication details: New York : Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2011.Description: 225 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cmISBN: - 1584799358
- 9781584799351
- This old house (Television program)
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Adult Book
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Main Library | NonFiction | 643.7 O18 | Available | 33111006789305 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This Old House is America's longest-running home improvement show, airing on PBS since 1979. In this book, host Kevin O'Connor will chronicle 10 of the finest transformations rendered by the craftsmen and artists from the past decade of filming the show. Never before have completed projects from This Old House been displayed in such detail. From interiors to exteriors, with insights from every step of the process, the works presented in this book will give devotees of This Old House something they've never had before--the rarely shown finished spaces. With more than 200 stunning photographs showing the before-and-after of the best houses on the show, and unique insights and stories from O'Connor and some of the well-known crew members, fans of This Old House will be clamoring for this volume.
Praise for Best Homes from THIS OLD HOUSE :
"Get ready for home envy. . . . Kevin O'Connor, host of This Old House , gives readers a personal tour through ten of his favorite projects in his first book, The Best Homes from This Old House ."
-- The Boston Herald
Includes index.
Introduction -- New England farmhouse -- Cambridge modern -- Texas bungalow -- Shingle-style Victorian -- Timber frame -- Brooklyn brownstone -- Dutch Colonial revival -- Second Empire Victorian -- Riverside Colonial revival -- Los Angeles Spanish revival.