Lake Houses [Hardcover]

John de Visser (Author), Judy Ross (Author)

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Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Boston Mills Press (Jun 13 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1550464833
ISBN-13: 978-1550464832
Product Dimensions: 25.7 x 25.7 x 2.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.4 Kg
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #607,302 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Lake Houses is an enjoyable book that will entertain cottagers until they return to their wilderness retreats. (Glenn Perrett http://metrolandnorth.typepad.com/glenn_perrett/ 20080824)

Scenic and dreamy, this is both an excellent idea book and a welcome escape from the tribulations of winter months. (Hamilton Magazine's Interiors 20090429)

Even if you don't own a cottage or waterfront property, this stunning pictorial is the ultimate stress reliever. (The Ottawa Citizen 20090528)

The pictures, with minimal text, are quite sufficient to keep our lake-house dreams alive. (Terry Mapes New Journal (Ohio) 20081206)

[Makes] it easy to imagine lazy afternoons watching the world breeze by the end of the dock. (Times-Colonist (Victoria, BC) 20090528)

Thumbing through this beautiful coffee table book will leave you pining for quiet, relaxed summers at the lake. (Karen Turner Vancouver Sun )

Even if you don't own a cottage or waterfront property, this stunning pictorial is the ultimate stress reliever. (Winnipeg Free Press )

These lake houses represent the soul of summer. (Rob Mooy Frontenac This Week )

This book presents cottages to sigh for. (The Globe and Mail )

Whether designed by a famous architect or pragmatic relative many generations ago, these lake houses represent the soul of summer. (Rob Mooy Frontenac This Week/Kingston This Week )

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The definitive book on "lake-house " style.

This richly illustrated book takes the reader deep into lake country to reveal the essence of lake house and summer cottage style. Spectacular photographs and insightful essays capture the best of 100 revered homes.

Lake Houses is a guided tour of gardens where bright impatiens grow among the roots of island trees, past hammocks hung from the weathered beams of a breezy wraparound veranda, into rustic turn-of-the-century cottage kitchens, and across the warm wood floors of sun-drenched sitting rooms on the bay.

This enchanting book is full of memories, but it also serves as an idea book. In these pages, lake house owners from several regions welcome visitors onto their properties and open the doors to their beloved summer residences.

Included are chapters on:

Exteriors
Living rooms
Dining rooms
Kitchens
Boathouses
Bedrooms
Bathrooms
Guest cabins and bunkies
Decks, docks and gazebos
Verandas and porches
Wall works and fireplaces
Gardens.

Whether designed by a famous architect or a pragmatic relative many generations ago, these lake houses represent the soul of summer.

(20090418)

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This is the book you want if you are looking for ideas to shape your lakeside retreat. Actually any retreat, cabin or cottages, as the interior shots, and the photoes of how the houses are situated on the lots, including the gardens and porches, would give both a large and a smaller budget ideas to make their own. This one I would get without hesitation, and I do own many of this kind, so I'd know.

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