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The well-built house

by Jim Locke

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  • sarcher · Jul 20, 2020 · Recommends

    …1870-1960" by Herbert Gottfried "Norwegian Wood: The Thoughtful Architecture of Wenche Selmer" by Elisabeth Tostrup "Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn" by Thomas Hubka And then maybe: "The Well-Built House" by Jim Locke "The colonial House Then and Now" by Francis Underwood "Little House on a Small Planet" by Shay Salomon

    on “Designing a New Old Home: Part 1” ↗
  • skybrian · Feb 7, 2019 · Recommends

    You might want to read House by Tracy Kidder to get an idea of how crazy building a house can be, even on a good project. One of the builders in that book wrote a book of his own, The Well-Built House by Jim Locke, which I bought and found to be interesting reading. In his obituary it says: "The revised edition is still in print although Jim dismissed it in recent years as technically out-of-date."…

    on “HTML, CSS and our vanishing industry entry points” ↗

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