Prefab Elements: Adding Custom Features to Your Home [Hardcover]

Sandy Mclendon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 18, 2005

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.

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About the Author

Sandy McLendon has written about modern design and architecture for "Modernism" magazine, where he was also a book reviewer for two years; and for "Old House Interiors" magazine. He is editor of the only full-service online magazine about modern design and architecture, "Jetsetmodern", on subjects as diverse as manufactured housing and the Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired house in "North by Northwest". This is his first book.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Collins Design (October 18, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060751622
• ISBN-13: 978-0060751623
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 10.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,264,875 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Prefab Elements: Adding Custom Features to Your Home, November 4, 2005

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Sandy McLendon's book combines a history of prefabricated components in residential construction with gorgeous inspirational photographs, and new information on the latest technologies. It is informative for the lay person as well as the architect.

Michael John Smith