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Estate Dream Homes: 181 Designs of Unsurpassed Grandeur

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Excellent home plan book for anyone looking for luxurious mini-estate home plans. This book covers a wide variety of styles but mainly concentrates on homes in the 4,000 - 6,000 square foot range, although there are several plans featured that reach close to 10,000 square feet. The forward section contains color photographs of a few homes featured in the book. This is a great resource for anyone looking for ideas to help in the creation of their dream home or for someone with a general love of architecture.

I was disappointed with this book because I didn't really see a lot of homes of "Unsurpassed Grandeur". Of the 181 plans, 138 are less than 5,000 square feet. 10 are under 3,000. Only 6 are over 7,000. Maybe 75% have the master bedroom on the first floor, which seems to be the style but I really don't like. Most of these plans are just standard plans with one or two changes to make them a little nicer. Also, a few of the plans looked like they had been photocopied too many times and had blurry lines. A few of the plans were printed so small that you could not read the room dimensions. Overall, I was not satisfied with this book. Maybe I just have different ideas of what an estate home is and what unsurpassed grandeur looks like.