Blueprint Remodel - Hardcover

The author of the Blueprint series presents a series of plans for turning the average suburban home into a spacious and elegant domicile, using before-and-after photographs to show how this transformation can be accomplished at the least expense.

$24.95 U.S.It's time to look at the cookie-cutter tract home in a new light! Blueprint Remodel features homes that have dramatically shed their tract constraints-uninspired siting, run-of-the-mill floor plans, boxy rooms, low ceilings, poor lighting, and bland materials-for a shot at architectural greatness. Their metamorphosis from everyday to extraordinary proves that even the most unexciting house can be reborn with an infusion of creative energy.From Texas to Seattle and points in between, the ten homes in these pages are the bright stars on the tract home block. Previously lackluster, they are now unabashedly colorful and stylish. Their cramped floor plans have been reconfigured and their materials updated. Featured in a wide range of cost, style, size, and location and illustrated with before-and-after photographs that reveal the true extent of the transformation, these examples will give you plenty of ideas, regardless of your budget or architectural taste. Go ahead-put your tract home on its own path to excellence!Michelle Kodis is also the author of the Gibbs Smith titles Blueprint Small: Creative Ways to Live With Less and Blueprint Affordable: How to Build a Beautiful House Without Breaking the Bank. Since receiving her master of science degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1991, she has written about a broad range of topics, including architecture and design, science, the environment, health and medicine, business, and cuisine. She lives with her husband near Telluride, Colorado, and is currently at work on additional architecture/design books for Gibbs Smith, Publisher.Jacket designed by Kurt Wahlner