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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 690
EAN: 9781561585656
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 1561585653
Label: Taunton
Manufacturer: Taunton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: October 01, 2001
Publisher: Taunton
Release Date: October 01, 2001
Sales Rank: 652251
Studio: Taunton
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Product Description:
Imagine a home designed for the family that lives in it. Author Jim Tolpin features 24 of them in The New Family Home, an innovative and inspiring look at the changing family home in America. The New Family Home takes readers on a tour of homes that meet the unique needs of families of all kinds. From flexible floor plans for blended families, to houses with a heightened sense of style for empty-nesters, this book calls to mind the essential bond between a family and the place it calls home. This book takes a diverse look at a wide variety of family homes and includes floor plans, color illustrations, and more than 200 photographs.
Amazon.com Review:
A house that's designed to be beautiful and house an active, energetic family may seem like a tall order for an architect, but the 24 homes featured in The New Family Home meet both needs extraordinarily well. Author Jim Tolpin takes readers through all the nooks and crannies of these well-planned homes, where every inch of space is maximized to create a family living space that's attractive as well as functional.
Many of the 24 homes share several characteristics popular with today's families, such as a great room (rather than the separate living room, dining room, and kitchen configurations of the past), so that family members can feel connected even while pursuing separate activities. A home office sometimes needs to be incorporated into the home or property, as telecommuting has become both possible and popular. Separate media rooms that house the television, video games, and stereo are also frequently requested, as they allow families to preserve the living room as a distraction-free place to spend time with each other.
Adaptability is the key to making these homes work, and Tolpin explains how this element is incorporated into each house. For instance, what is currently a guest bedroom on the first floor of a home can be converted to a bedroom for a teen who wants more privacy, and then to an accessible master bedroom for the aging parents after the child moves out. This flexibility in a home makes sense considering the current trend of families who want to live in their homes longer rather than move when a house no longer fits their lifestyle. By making a house's space adaptable and multifunctional, it can fill many roles through the years, and a family can live happily in one home for many decades.
Each family in The New Family Home required a home designed to meet their specific needs and wishes, and the book documents how the family worked with the architect who translated their requests into reality. The end result is a home that fits each family's particular lifestyle now and for the foreseeable future. --Kris Law
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - What do you really need in a home
A good book to help you see what really is important to have in a home.
Rating: - This is a lot to find in one book
I first checked this book out of the library, then liked it so much that I bought it. With 24 homes in it this book was a bit overwhelming at first. It took me a ... Read More
Rating:  - The New Family Home for Al Gore's "Richest 1%"!
No no no. This book should be titled "The New Family Home for the New Economy", since practically all of the example homes described could only be afforded by folks ... Read More
Rating:  - Great general ideas for a "family" house
We are in the pre-beginning stages of building...writing down ideas, concepts, before hiring an architect to design. This book is great for its general ideas in regard ... Read More
Rating: - The Heart of the Family
We just finished building our first family home in 1999 and I wish I had this book before we began! We looked at 10,000 floorplans and now live in a craftsman style, ... Read More
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