Prefab Elements: Adding Custom Features to Your Home - Hardcover

McLendon, Sandy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060751622 ISBN 13: 9780060751623

Publisher: Harper Design, 2005

Synopsis

When you go to Home Depot to look at their ready-made cabinetry, you may not think of it as prefab, but in fact that’s just one example of the many amenities today’s manufacturers offer. Customized amenities provide homeowners comforts they couldn’t afford otherwise and often more economical and environmentally smart ways. Think of luxury bathrooms with multilevel showers or oversized whirlpool tubs, skylights, staircases, ceramic tile and much, much more. Prefab Elements discusses this phenomenon, presenting scores of new materials and items that can be used either in a total prefab environment built from scratch or as individual items in a renovation or redesign. Building on the bestselling success of Prefab Modern, this inspiring book also provides a fascinating history of how the prefab movement really got started and how architects like Frank Lloyd Wright became increasingly involved with early prefab development. A source list and glossary are included to help homeowners get up to speed on this all the new exciting opportunities prefabricated elements offer today.

About this title

Product Description:

Prefab Elements Presents scores of new materials and elements to change the way you view your home. With individual prefab amenities, ready-made and easy to incorporate. From ready-made shower and whirpool units to prefab staircases and risers that can transform the look of your home. Full description

Synopsis:

For the homeowner who wants to examine the scores of new materials and elements that can be used either in a total prefab environment built from scratch or for innovative use as individual items in a renovation, "Prefab Elements" - the first book of its kind and a follow-up to "Prefab Modern", the unique homeowner portfolio - traces the latest trends and materials of actual manufactured designs and production components. Here are the REAL "Lincoln logs", or the nuts-and-bolts of scores of the most significant prefab elements available in today's marketplace - from items commonly seen and rarely identified as prefab to the newest and most current materials, like fibre glass or corking.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Design
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0060751622
• ISBN 13: 9780060751623
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 146