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A country farmhouse surrounded by fields and trees is a quintessentially American scene, but it's one that has universal appeal. These simple homes speak to us of history and values, promising both comfort and protection. The "country look" remains the single, most popular American style. Despite social and economic changes and the whims of fashion, it continues to shape design and decorating tastes. This illustrated book offers a rich and inspiring survey of country architecture and design, from painted furniture to porches, stencilling to saltbox houses. Today, the interior of a country home can be a meticulous restoration in a traditional style or a flea-market mix of furnishings and collections. Profiles of country homes, ranging from a rustic German-style house in Texas, to a classic Greek Revival in upstate New York to a contemporary reinterpretation in Connecticut provide stimulating ideas.
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Leah Rosch, formerly the executive editor of American Homestyle & Gardening magazine, has written for The New York Times as well as This Old House and Metropolitan Home magazines. Keith Scott Morton, the principal photographer for Country Living magazine, has been a leading photographer of country homes and interiors for fifteen years.
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Few history books capture the story of America's past as vividly as the farmhouses that fill our countryside. Read the first page
Front Cover | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Few history books capture the story of America's past as vividly as the farmhouses that fill our countryside. Read the first page
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4.4 out of 5 stars (7 customer reviews)
32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
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Sumptuous and Informative, 11 Oct 2002
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: American Farmhouses: Country Style and Design (Hardcover)
As a devotee of country style and an admirer of farmhouses around the northeast, I found this book to be charming. A cross between a coffee table book and a reference guide, it's the kind of thing you can pick up and peruse easily without having to read straight through. It's refreshingly useful-with just enough historical information for the nonacademic. I learn something new every time I refer to it. Yet it's lovely to page through, which also makes it a great Christmas gift for anyone who loves country style. The nicest thing of its kind to come on the market in a while.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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a new must=have for country decorating, 20 Jan 2003
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: American Farmhouses: Country Style and Design (Hardcover)
This book could revolutionize and galvanize traditional country decorating, much like Mary Emmerling's American Country did when it was first published. If you buy only one decorating book, this should be it. Not a bad photo in the whole book. I am thrilled with it!
23 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great, but narrow spectrum, 25 May 2005
By James Preston "Jim Preston" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: American Farmhouses: Country Style and Design (Hardcover)
I grew up in California agriculture and the houses selected for this book bare little resemblence to Western farmhouses. All the houses are from east of the Mississippi, mostly East Coast and very old. There is one Texas farmhouse from the Civil War era.
It seems that the design strategy of the owners has been to restore the old farmhouse ambience with older style elements. In California we try to reach the ambience of the farmhouse but with modern elements and techniques. If this is your objective then the book is still interesting but it won't give you much direct inspiration.
I rate it three stars because the author forgot that the western US has its own farmhouse style and we happen to be American also. A more appropriate title would have been "Colonial American Farmhouses".
- jim
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