The Rustic Home [Hardcover]

Ralph Kylloe (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 11, 2006

The Rustic Home explores the mythical and romantic West through the architecture and artistry of its residents. This unique new book reveals how rugged old cabins, settler shelters, and mountain shacks have influenced and shaped modern Western architecture. Today, homes of the West reflect the passion, aesthetic, and history of the places that made the West the ultimate destination it is today: Yellowstone National Park, the Grand Canyon, the Teton mountains, and the Redwood forests. Kylloe's luxurious photography reveals how the West's rugged environment has influenced modern architecture with romance, lore, passion, and history. Take a visual vacation into the heart of the West to explore how homes are incorporating that romance today!
The Rustic Home features homes that:
Utilize on-site natural resources such as stones and recycled/reclaimed timbers
Are designed to blend in with the immediate environment
Are constructed to appear timeless; as though they have always been there
Incorporate the most advanced technology used in homes today
Are able to withstand enormous snowloads and possible earthquakes
Are warm and inviting and beg to be lived in!

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

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With the publication of The Rustic Home, Ralph Kylloe continues his artistic exploration of the rustic arts movement. Rustic living is undergoing a dramatic expansion. While some traditional homes offer a few hickory rockers on their front porches, many others are boasting the addition of an Adirondack room or handcrafted furniture pieces placed alongside traditional ones. At the extreme high end are extraordinary rustic homes filled with quintessential rustic furniture. This book contains examples of each style.
From small guest cabins to large homes that can sleep groups of forty, building a rustic home is a collaborative effort that starts with the vision of the homeowner. Add a talented architect and dozens of skilled engineers, carpenters, electricians, masons, painters, roofers, landscapers, interior designers and so on, and the result is nothing short of amazing. The Rustic Home explores distinguishing features created by these artisans, from flat-stacked stone walls that seem to grow out of the environment and recycled timbers that beg to be touched, to hand-hammered chandeliers and massive rock fireplaces casting warmth all around.
Stunning photography masterfully reflects the warmth and artistry that are the epitome of today's rustic evolution.

About the Author

Ralph Kylloe received his EdD from Boston University and has taught at the university level for many years. He is a leading authority on rustic furniture and owner of the aplh Kylloe Gallery at Lake George in New York's Adirondack Mountains. His previous books include Fishing Camps, Rustic Architecture and Design, and Cabins & Camps.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Publisher; 1 edition (October 11, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1586858106
• ISBN-13: 978-1586858100
• Product Dimensions: 12.1 x 11.1 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #466,689 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rustic at its finest!!, October 23, 2006

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C. Anderson "LodgeLover" (Oregon City, Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Rustic Home (Hardcover)

Yet another gorgous rustic book written and photographed by no other than the expert of all things rustic- Ralph Kylloe.
I own all his books and RAN as fast as my legs would carry me to pick up his latest new book-"The Rustic Home". It is another great addition to my ever growing collection of his finest books ever. If you love anything rustic and decorate in this theme, or even if you don't, but love to flip thru the gorgous pages and dream of living in each and every one of these fantastic homes with a good hot cup of coffee in hand, then again this one is for you. I cannot tell you how often I pick up one of his beautiful books and gaze and dream of owning a home such is found on these pages. I gain new ideas and insight each time i re-open them up! Drives my husband crazy with all the remodel ideas I keep coming up with to create hopefully something similiar to what is found on the pages of all of Kylloes books, only in a smaller scale. I did find a few of the homes in this book outright "funky" if for a better word- like "Montana Lalu", "The Cape" and "The Rookery" ones that maybe I personally would have not included, but that is only my opinion. I do understand where Kylloe is coming from in including these to show that rustic varies depending on each and everyones different interpretation. To me these homes left me somewhat cold- compared to the others with their captivating rustic appeals reminesant to lodges and cozy cabins -some even towering giants so large its hard to fathom even cleaning homes of this size and scale, but none the less absolutely breath-taking!!!
Thumbs up Kylloe- I would be happy to own just one! But for now we will keep plugging away painstakingly ever changing our home into one of these greats and hopefully some day maybe ours can be featured in one of your magnifient books as well!!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice book for ideas, April 10, 2007

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Cindy (Black Hills, SD United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Rustic Home (Hardcover)

I liked this book (I actually bought it for my mother, and she absolutely loves it). I prefer one of Kyloe's other books--Cabins and Camps, but this one was pretty good. If you're not a multi-gazillionaire, you can't think of actually building any of the homes in this book, but it might give you some good ideas. For myself, as I said, I found more ideas I liked in Cabins and Camps.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not quite what I excected, February 9, 2009

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Mr. J. A. Dene - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Rustic Home (Hardcover)

The book is not the sort of rustic I was thinking of, in fact I wouldn't really call it rustic at all, its just that lot of the wood used is still in the round.
Unfortunately there were also a few too many dead animals for my liking, I think if I was from Montana ( where most of the houses are ) I probably would have liked it a lot more.