Home By Design

Home By Design is a groundbreaking book that looks at the key design concepts behind all well designed homes. The author provides you with 30 key concepts that can be applied to any home, no matter what size or style, designed to transform your house from a near shelter into a comfortable home that is filled with beauty and character. The book contains examples of 28 of the best designed homes around the country, and presents concepts and 150 powerful and inspirational examples of what to do to transform your home, from everything as simple as placing a rug under a table to defining one room from another with a framed opening or archway. After reading this book you'll see many new ways to create the home that you have always wanted, filled with a sense of warmth, beauty and enduring quality.

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Process of Entering
• 2. Shelter around Activity
  
• 3. Sequence of Places
  
• 4. Ceiling Height Variety
  
• 5. Interior Views
  
• 6. Layering
• 7. Inside Outside
  
• 8. Changes in Level
  
• 9. Public to Private
  
• 10. Openability
  
• 11. Enclosure
  
• 12. Differentiation of Parts
  
• 13. Depth and Thickness
  
• 14. Light to Walk Toward
• 15. Light Intensity Variation
• 16. Reflecting Surfaces
  
• 17. Window Positioning
  
• 18. Visual Weight
• 19. View and Nonview
  
• 20. Pattern and Geometry
• 21. Alignments
  
• 22. Rhythm
  
• 23. Theme and Variations
  
• 24. Composition
  
• 25. Expressed Structure
  
• 26. Point of Focus
  
• 27. Organizing Strategy