Getting the Details Right Restoring Australian Houses 1890s ~1920s

by Ian Evans

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This book is the result of countless hours of fieldwork with a tape measure and notebook, painstakingly measuring, recording and drawing some of the most important details of old Australian houses. The designs which it contains provide all of the dimensions and construction details necessary for restoration work on a variety of Australian housing styles in the period from the late 1890s through to the late 1920s and beyond. There are chimneys, fences, gates, doors, windows, verandah columns show more and garages for Federation houses, Californian bungalows and the various other styles of cottages, villas and houses of the period...[from the flyleaf] show less

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Home & Garden, Nonfiction, Art & Design, History
DDC/MDS
728.3Arts & recreationArchitectureResidential and related buildingsSpecific kinds of conventional housing
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NA7469Fine Arts2599.5-2599.9 Architectural criticismArchitectureSpecial classes of buildingsClassed by useDomestic architecture. Houses. Dwellings

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