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To live on an island is to live a life apart. Author Linda Leigh Paul’s Island Living captures the most charming island homes, including homes on the East Coast’s Barrier Islands, the Northwest’s San Juan and Gulf Islands, the Pacific’s Hawaiian Islands, and the Great Lakes’ Apostle Islands, among other homes on privately owned or low-density islands.
The island home reflects its owner’s reason for escape, whether it’s a person who turns to island living to feel more of this world, or the person who wishes to remove himself from the mainstream. Regardless, the island homeowner is individualistic and creative, and every space in Island Living speaks of a space that is its owner’s dream come to life, be it simplicity or utter luxury.
With more than 150 images and written in the transporting and distinctive tone that Paul’s readers have come to expect, Island Living is a book of fantasy―the home that is both refuge and wish embodied.
The island home reflects its owner’s reason for escape, whether it’s a person who turns to island living to feel more of this world, or the person who wishes to remove himself from the mainstream. Regardless, the island homeowner is individualistic and creative, and every space in Island Living speaks of a space that is its owner’s dream come to life, be it simplicity or utter luxury.
With more than 150 images and written in the transporting and distinctive tone that Paul’s readers have come to expect, Island Living is a book of fantasy―the home that is both refuge and wish embodied.
About the Author
Linda Leigh Paul is the author of Cottages on the Coast, Cottages by the Sea, The Cabin Book, Coastal Retreats, and Desert Retreats, all published by Universe. She lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon.
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25 Homes in Beautiful Settings, Mar 4 2006
By John Matlock "Gunny" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Island Living: Inland Retreats and Shoreside Havens (Hardcover)
When I thought of living on an island, my first thought was the tropics. Somewhere down in the Caribbean or perhaps the South Pacific. Here houses would be open to the wind, here it would be necessary to produce your own electricity, your own water supply and so on.Instead in this book, most of the houses are on islands just off the coast of the US. And as part of the sub-title, there are some that he considers to be Shoreside Havens rather than actually on an island. Further many of these houses are quite far north, off the coast of Maine perhaps or in the area around foggy, rainy Seattle. Here you don't want a wide open house, but one that can be warm and cozy while presenting a view of the storm tossed water.
Here are some twenty-five spectacular homes. These are not the huge mansions often seen in such books, but homes that are only slightly above the mainstream. Here are homes that are made to fit into a site and to reflect the love that the owners have for that site.
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The Great Utopia of Island Living, Feb 6 2010
By j. j. molloy "oreganus" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Island Living: Inland Retreats and Shoreside Havens (Hardcover)
The is a wonderful collection of residences that show a broad scope of the idea of escape. In general one thinks of "a South sea island" as the only possibility. Here we are given views thatare not part of the main.
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An architect Island Resident, April 22 2006
By Lyman Perry - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Island Living: Inland Retreats and Shoreside Havens (Hardcover)
Very nice layout and graphics and selection of relatively modest but well thought out homes.
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